Think you had a good weekend dressing up for Halloween with your friends and partying like there was no tomorrow in the Ghetto and at Tim's or Milano's? How about the weekend the fall sports programs had at UD?

Both soccer teams, both cross country teams and the football team had a collective weekend for the ages. And if you're a sports fan on campus and you haven't caught on to the success these teams are having this season, you're doing yourself a real disservice.

The men's soccer team kicked things off this past weekend with a 3-0 win over (at the time) the No. 11 Charlotte 49ers on Friday night at Baujan Field. Head coach Dennis Currier and the underclassmen on the team honored the 11 seniors on the team Friday night before the game and the emotion carried over to the first half as the atmosphere at Baujan was electrifying from the kickoff. Dayton scored the first goal of the night in the seventh minute of the match and the energy level from that point on was off the charts. The shutout was also the teams' seventh of the season. The 11th ranked 49ers are the highest team that the program has beaten under Currier. The Flyers also beat perennial power St. Louis 1-0 Sunday. If the Flyers sweep their two games this weekend, they will win the regular season A-10 title.

The women's soccer team already won the Atlantic 10 regular season title outright with the team's 3-0 win over archrival Xavier on Halloween on senior night. The women, with the shutout, broke a program record for single season shutouts with 14. The 2004 team recorded 13 shutouts, the previous record. Head coach Mike Tucker and his team have finished the regular season as one of only two teams in all of NCAA Women's Division I soccer. The other undefeated team is Stanford and they're the No. 1 team in the country.

Steve Valentino led the football team to its seventh straight win in a 21-14 victory over the San Diego Toreros Saturday. The Flyers improved to 7-1 overall this season and 5-0 in Pioneer Football League play to remain in a 3-team tie atop the league standings with 5-0 Butler and Drake. The Flyers play Butler and Drake in the next two weeks and if they win the PFL, they earn a birth to the Gridiron Classic, a bowl game with the winner of the Northeast Conference.

The men's cross country team recorded its best finish ever at the A-10 Championship meet in St. Louis on Saturday. Dayton junior Chris Lemon won the men's individual title with a time of 26:13.3 finishing just six-tenths of a second ahead of St. Joseph's Kevin McDonnell in one of the closest finishes in recent history. Lemon is UD's first ever conference champion. Senior Mike Andersen and junior Matt Lemon both finished in the race's top-nine spots and earned all-conference honors.

The women's cross country team, not to be outdone, captured its first ever Atlantic 10 title Saturday. The Flyers were led by Junior Maureen Bulgrin, who finished third overall with a 5K time of 19:47. Dayton head coach Ann Alyanak was voted the conference's Coach of the Year after her team clinched the program's first A-10 Championship.

With basketball season starting, it could be easy to lose track of the fall sports, but they are doing their best not to let that happen. This fall is truly a special one for Dayton athletics. Get out this coming weekend and witness it for yourself.