GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The No. 16 Auburn soccer team reached new heights when it defeated No. 9 Florida in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 on Sunday afternoon, 3-1. The Tigers (17-6-0) advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history and also set a new record for most wins in a single season with the victory.First, congratulations to Florida, said head coach Karen Hoppa. Theyre a tremendous team, the SEC Tournament champions, and obviously played a great game.Im incredibly proud of our team. I thought we did not play particularly well in the first half. We fought hard and defended well, but we didnt play soccer the way we wanted to and to go into halftime up - credit to Brooke [Ramsier] to get a goal against the run of play - I was really proud of the team and the adjustments they made in the second half.Kristen Dodson, Bri Folds and Brooke Ramsier each notched a goal in the 90-minute affair to guide the offense. Sarah Le Beau went the distance between the posts and made six saves.Playing in front of a raucous crowd of 1,152, Auburn had a shaky start out of the gate. The Gators (17-5-1) put in a pair of dangerous efforts in the opening 20 minutes, drawing one Le Beau save, and controlled the possession early on.However, a counter-attack in the 25th minute changed the whole complexion of the match.A ball that found the feet of Dodson was then pushed forward into a danger area, but the three surrounding defenders were able to get a foot on it.The ball, however, ricocheted off a defender and dropped to the feet of Ramsier. The Dallas, Texas native then blasted a volley from 20 yards away to the far-post corner and found the back of the net.The goal marked Ramsiers second of the weekend and was the 16th point shes secured in her last seven matches.Auburn maintained a 1-0 lead into the locker room and had only one shot - Ramsiers rocket.The Tigers roared out of the break after tallying a pair of shots and drawing a corner in the opening two minutes of the second half, but were held in check.In the 62nd minute, Dodson took a feed over the top of the defense and drew a hard foul in the box that flipped the match heavily in favor of Auburn. The Florida defender was issued a red card and a penalty was given.Folds then calmly took her first career penalty and fired it into the back of the net to double Auburns lead to 2-0.Just 53 seconds later and down a player, the Gators responded by scoring a goal and cutting the margin in half at 2-1.After a plethora of chances for both squads, Dodson put the match away in the 84th minute.The junior picked off a pass from Florida and took on three defenders at midfield. Dodson then saw the goalkeeper was off her line and chipped it up and over the final line of defense from 35 yards away to seal the victory.The Tigers remained compact in the final five minutes and closed out the program-defining win, sending Auburn to its first ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals.Making it to the Elite Eight with this group is incredible, stated Ramsier. Credit to all of us because theyre such a bond this team has and it really is a family. We fight for each other. We go out there and play 90 minutes for each and every girl on and off the field. Its just a crazy feeling and were so happy.Auburn earned its second win in Gainesville this season after topping the Gators 3-0 back in September. In both matches, the Tigers defense held strong, limiting Florida to their lowest two goal-outputs of the season.We just stick together and support each other if we get beat, stated senior defender Kiana Clarke. We cover for each other and pick up after another. We know we have each other to depend on and I think thats a big part of our success today.Auburn makes its historic debut in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Friday when it travels to No. 3 USC. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. Womens Cowboys Jerseys .Y. - New Orleans forward Anthony Davis was chosen Friday to replace the injured Kobe Bryant in the NBA All-Star game that will be played in his home city. Wholesale Cowboys Jerseys . 24 Baylor in a Big 12 clash between teams trending in opposite directions. 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He will miss league matches against Chelsea on Monday and West Ham on Dec.LONDON -- Richard Carrion of Puerto Rico entered the IOC presidential race Wednesday, promising to use his business experience to guide the Olympics through the worlds troubled financial times and proposing to deploy IOC staff permanently in host cities to help organize the games. The 60-year-old Carrion, a banking executive who chairs the IOC finance commission and has spearheaded multi-billion dollar television rights deals, became the third member to declare as a candidate for the most powerful job in the Olympic movement. "We are at a crossroads," Carrion said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We will have to keep innovating and evolving or else well become less relevant. A lot of change is coming. I think I can manage in that kind of environment." Carrion follows IOC vice-presidents Thomas Bach of Germany and Ng Ser Miang of Singapore in formally announcing bids to succeed Jacques Rogge, who steps down in September after 12 years as head of the International Olympic Committee. C.K. Wu of Taiwan, head of the international amateur boxing association, is due to announce his candidacy on Thursday. Former pole vaulter Sergei Bubka of Ukraine is expected to follow soon, and Denis Oswald of Switzerland is also likely to run and complete a six-man field. The election will be held on Sept. 10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Carrion sent a letter to all IOC members Wednesday announcing his presidential bid, along with a 14-page document laying out his platform and heralding the arrival of a "Great Olympic Era." He proposes raising the age limit for IOC members, which is currently 70. "I have been in positions where I have manoeuvred in difficult periods and I have helped safeguard the position and financial standing of the IOC as well as the revenue of the IOC," Carrion said in a telephone interview. "I have managed large complex organizations all my professional life. In difficult periods, in time of upheaval, I have done that successfully." Carrion, an IOC member since 1990, served on the policy-making executive board from 2004-12. He has been chairman of the finance commission since 2002 and the audit commission since 2006. He serves on the co-ordination commission for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Carrion is also chairman and CEO of Popular Inc., the financial services company which operates Banco Popular and other banks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. He is a member of the board of directors of Verizon and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As the head of TV rights negotiations for regions outside of Europe, Carrion helped raise more than $8 billion in revenues. He led the negotiations that secured a record $4.38 billion deal with NBC for U.S. TV rights through 2020. He has also overseen the growth in the IOCs financial reserves over the past 10 years from $100 million to $900 million. While his financial credentials are important, the job requires more than a top money man and needs someone passionate about the Olympic values and ideals, Carrion said. "This is an organization based on values," he said. "I am a person that is very muuch attuned to financial trends but I recognize very deeply the moment we forget our values, it doesnt matter how many TV contracts you have, it doesnt matter how much money is in the bank.ddddddddddddquot; Carrion said the IOC is in a strong overall position but must take action to deal with potential risks and challenges, including the financial downturn, doping, match-fixing, youth obesity and threat of natural disasters. "Nobody was predicting the financial crisis weve been going though the past five years," he said. "Its the things that you dont know about that you have to have the leadership in place to manoeuvr through that environment." Carrion proposes "insourcing" or bringing more functions directly under IOC control, as the committee has done in recent years with marketing and the Olympic Broadcasting Services. He specifically recommends putting permanent IOC management teams in place in host cities. "We can probably do a lot more of the organizing functions with a small dedicated cadre of people that would be on site continuously and start looking at which functions we can do more efficiently and not having to reinvent the wheel," Carrion said. "We probably have to go a little further and have people on the ground that have had experience generating budgets." Carrion said an IOC permanent presence would be useful in Rio, which has been facing delays and challenges in preparing for the 2016 Games. As a member of the co-ordination panel for Rio, chaired by Moroccos Nawal El Moutawakel, he has seen the problems up close. "There are games that are better prepared and games that give us a little more trouble," he said. "I think in the co-ordination commission of Rio, Nawal has spoken directly to the president of Brazil and to the mayor. We told them of certain concerns. Theyre aware of it. "Its something we will have to be on top of. I know the president (Rogge) has also made them aware. Weve seen these types of situations in the past. It requires constant monitoring." On other issues, Carrion said it was time to review some of the reforms that were enacted in 2000 in the wake of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, including the imposed age limit of 70 for IOC members. He suggests 75 would be a more appropriate retirement age. "Its now 13 years later, its time we look again at all of those things we passed," he said. "Its time we took a good hard look at them and review what their impact has been. Is there something we want to change? Perhaps it turns out to be a few tweaks here and there or perhaps its something more profound." Carrion said its time to develop a new system for distributing Olympic revenues among the IOC, sports federations, national Olympic committees and other bodies. 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