Cardinal men make final 4

In the next eight days, Stanford could win not one but two NCAA soccer championships.

Tomas Hilliard-Arce scored in the first half and Sam Werner added a second-half goal as the Cardinal men, two-time defending national champs, won 2-0 at Wake Forest in an NCAA men’s quarterfinal match Saturday in Winston-Salem, N.C.

In beating the topseeded Demon Deacons (19-2-2) in the NCAA tournament for the third straight year, including in last year’s title game, the Cardinal (17-2-2) qualified for their third straight College Cup, soccer’s final four.

On Sunday, Stanford’s women will play for their second national title in seven years against UCLA in Orlando, the site of the women’s College Cup.

The ninth-seeded Stanford men open College Cup play Friday in Philadelphia against No. 5 Akron (18-3-2). Indiana and North Carolina will play in the other semifinal. The winners play for the national title next Sunday.

In blanking Wake Forest, the Cardinal extended

their NCAA-record postseason shutout streak to 10 games and 1,022 minutes. Stanford last allowed a goal in the NCAA tournament on Dec. 5, 2015, against Wake Forest.

Next weekend, Stanford will try to become the second men’s team to win three consecutive College Cups. Bruce Arena’s Virginia teams won three from 1992 to 1994.