Soccer falls twice during Classic

The awards had been given out. The stands had emptied. The interviews had been done.\nAnd here at midfield Saturday night, two players remained.\nOne was Matt Fundenberger, a senior forward for IU. The other was McKinley Tennyson, Jr., a senior forward for UCLA.\nBoth are key players on premiere college soccer teams, and both once played together.\nThey dominated together, actually.\nFundenberger and Tennyson led Indianapolis North Central High School to four consecutive state championships in high school. They formed the most formidable attacking tandem in Indiana.\nThen they went on to college and became rivals.\nSince then, they've met at least once every season, and every game has been a memorable one.\nIn 1997, Tennyson scored the game's only goal, in the third sudden death overtime, to eliminate Indiana from the NCAA tournament and end the Hoosiers' undefeated season.\nIn '98, UCLA won 2-1 in the Hoosiers' final regular season game.\nIn '99, IU won 3-2 in four overtimes in the NCAA tournament.\nSaturday, UCLA won 2-1, and Tennyson scored the game's first goal.\nHe then went on a celebration sprint past Indiana's bench while looking at the crowd.\nFundenberger's reaction?\n"I don't know what that was," he said. "I don't know what the intention was."\nTennyson, however, said it had good intentions.\n"I just think I was excited to be home, score in front of my family, all my friends, even some of my friends here in Indiana," he said. "It wasn't anything bad, just to say, 'Hey, I'm back home.'"\nHe could have played four years for the Hoosiers, instead of four games against them, but he said he decided to attend UCLA to "do something different."\nSo he may have played in front of a home crowd for the last time.\nThe only way Tennyson will play at IU again is if the Hoosiers host an NCAA tournament game and the Bruins happen to be the opponent.\nFundenberger won't be too sad if he's played against his old teammate for the last time.\n"He had a chance to come to IU and he didn't. And now all he does is score against us," Fundenberger said. "In every single game we play against him, he scores against us. I'm happy for him, but I'm not happy he's doing it against us. Let him do it against everybody else.\n"But what are you gonna' do, he's a great player. Nobody can stop him."\nFundenberger managed to stop him at midfield Saturday, after everyone had left Bill Armstrong Stadium. He stopped Tennyson, shook his hand, posed for a picture and, perhaps, stood on the same soccer field as his old teammate for the last time.