This Week’s Events:
Monday, Oct. 29---Golf---UCSD at Mauna Lani Intercollegiate---All Day
Monday, Oct. 29---Women’s Soccer---UCSD vs. Cal Poly Pomona---4:30 PM
Monday, Oct. 29---Men’s Soccer---UCSD vs. Cal Poly Pomona---7:00 PM
Tuesday, Oct. 30---Golf---UCSD at Mauna Lani Intercollegiate---All Day
Tuesday, Oct. 30---Men’s Soccer---UCSD vs. CSU San Bernardino---4:30 PM
Tuesday, Oct. 30---Women’s Soccer---UCSD vs. CSU San Bernardino---7:00 PM
Thursday, Nov. 1---Men’s Tennis---UCSD at ITA Indoor Doubles Champ.---All Day
Friday, Nov. 2---Men’s Tennis---UCSD at ITA Indoor Doubles Champ.---All Day
Friday, Nov. 2---Women’s Basketball---UCSD at Disney Tip-Off Classic---2:30 PM
Friday, Nov. 2---Men’s Basketball---UCSD at UC Riverside (exhib.)---7:00 PM
Friday, Nov. 2---Women’s Volleyball---UCSD at Humboldt State---7:00 PM
Friday, Nov. 2---Women’s Soccer---UCSD at CCAA Championships---TBA
Saturday, Nov. 3---Men’s Tennis---UCSD at ITA Indoor Doubles Champ.---All Day
Saturday, Nov. 3---Fencing---UCSD at Conference Five-Way---10:00 AM
Saturday, Nov. 3---Cross Country---UCSD at NCAA West Regional---11:00 AM
Saturday, Nov. 3---Swimming & Diving---UCSD at Cal State Bakersfield---1:00 PM
Saturday, Nov. 3---Women’s Basketball---UCSD at Disney Tip-Off Classic---5:00 PM
Saturday, Nov. 3---Men’s Water Polo---UCSD vs. UCLA---6:00 PM
Sunday, Nov. 4---Men’s Tennis---UCSD at ITA Indoor Doubles Champ.---All Day
Sunday, Nov. 4---Men’s Crew---UCSD at Newport Autumn Rowing Festival---7:30 AM
Sunday, Nov. 4---Women’s Soccer---UCSD at CCAA Championships---TBA
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CCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS LOOM FOR WOMEN’S SOCCER
Sidelined
by the San Diego wildfires since defeating Cal State Stanislaus, Oct.
21, the 18th-ranked Women’s Soccer team finally gets back into action
tonight with a make-up game against Cal Poly Pomona and will play again
tomorrow night in its regular season finale, also a make-up contest,
against Cal State San Bernardino...Coach Brian McManus’s club is 12-2-1
on the year and leads the CCAA South Division
The Tritons will travel to Carson Friday for the
first round of the CCAA Championship Tournament, hosted by Cal State
Dominguez Hills...The title game is Sunday at 11:30 AM...UCSD will be
seeded No. 1 or 2 pending the outcome of its last two contests.
NATIONAL BIDS ON THE LINE AT NCAA CROSS COUNTRY REGIONAL
Shooting
for a pair of NCAA Division II Championship berths, the Cross Country
teams travel to Boise, ID for Saturday’s NCAA Western Regional meet at
Eagle Island State Park...The course, 6K for women and 10K for men,
loops around a small lake with one significant climb per lap...In order
to qualify for the nationals, the women need to finish in the top four,
the men in the top three...According to Head Coach Nate Garcia, neither
task is out of the question.
The Triton women go in seeded fourth and will again
be led by the senior threesome of Diane Dunn (second at the CCAA
Championships), Emily McGregor and Amanda Burkhardt... Rounding out the
regional roster will be junior Ashleigh Montgomery, sophomore Jordana
Henderson and freshmen Brianna Alban and Jessie Bodenhamer...In
Garcia’s estimation, a clear break exists between the top four teams
and the rest of the field, meaning if the Tritons run to form, they
should punch their ticket for the NCAA Championships, Nov. 17 in
Joplin, MO.
For the men, seeded No. 5, the lineup will include
senior Greg Geldman, juniors Daniel Anderson, Kevin Klein, Jake LeVieux
and Gabe LaMothe and sophomores Jesse Morrill and Max Mullender...CCAA
kingpin Chico State and Western Washington enter as the top two seeds
and Garcia envisions a five-team dogfight for the final NCAA berth.
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UCSD-UCLA SQUARE OFF SATURDAY NIGHT AT CANYONVIEW
The
14th-ranked Men’s Water Polo team plays its final home game of the
season Saturday night, hosting No. 3-ranked UCLA at Canyonview
Pool...Start time is 6:00 PM...UCSD comes into Saturday’s action 10-13,
after absorbing a 9-4 defeat at Loyola Marymount Saturday, while UCLA
is 16-5 and fresh off a 9-5 upset of No. 1 USC Sunday.
The Tritons stunned the Bruins, 13-12, last fall,
their first victory in the 44-game series...Saturday will be the final
home appearance for seniors Curtis Williamson, Ben Miller and Simon
Schafer...Last Friday’s game at UC Irvine was canceled in the aftermath
of the Southern California wildfires and has been re-scheduled for
Wednesday, Nov. 7.
At LMU, Saturday, the Tritons’ Chance Vermilyea
scored the first goal of the game and UCSD trailed just, 3-2, at
halftime but Coach Denny Harper’s unit was not able to keep pace with
the No. 10 Lions in the second half...Daniel Garcia, Ian Bausback and
Schafer rounded out the scoring for the Tritons and freshman goalie
Mark Stemler turned away seven shots.
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Senior Curtis Williamson scored four goals vs. Pacific Sunday.
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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL ROCKS NO. 2 CSU SAN BERNARDINO
After
experiencing a devastating loss and an exhilarating victory on
back-to-back nights last weekend, the 20th-ranked Women’s Volleyball
team plays a single match Friday at Humboldt State before returning
home for its final two CCAA matches the following week...Coach Tom
Black’s charges are now 16-7 overall, 10-5 in the CCAA and find
themselves in sole possession of third place in the league
standings...Humboldt is 9-14 overall and 5-10 in the CCAA (8th).
Friday night in Pomona, the Tritons surrendered the
last five points of game five and the match to Cal Poly Pomona, 3-2
(30-28, 30-32, 30-21, 30-18, 15-13)...UCSD, which out-hit the Broncos
(.138-.118) and piled up 14 aces, could not hold a 13-10 lead in the
decisive final set and saw a four-match win streak
extinguished...Junior Rebecca Bailey registered 21 kills and sophomore
Sylvia Schmidt chipped in with 14 while hitting at a .303 clip and
ripping five aces...Natalie Facchini and Casey Wilson had 21 and 18
digs respectively.
One night later, the resilient Tritons were on the
brink of a lost weekend, trailing once-defeated and second-ranked Cal
State San Bernardino, 2-0, but came off the floor to stun the host
Coyotes, 3-2 (23-30, 13-30, 30-25, 30-27, 15-12) and hand them their
first conference loss of 2007...After a dismal second game, all seemed
lost when UCSD fell behind, 10-5, in game three...But three Facchini
aces keyed a five-point blitz and a 22-10 run that got the Tritons back
in the match...Black's club pulled another "Houdini" act in game
four...On the ropes at 20-13, UCSD used contributions from all corners
to take its first lead at 28-27...A Schmidt kill sent the match to a
fifth game...The Coyotes came out hot again, scoring four of the first
five points, but the Tritons answered, racking up six of the next
seven, three on kills by Schmidt...UCSD pushed the lead to three, at
12-9, and CSUSB was never able to get closer than two again...With
senior Kim Adams (50 assists) at the controls, Bailey (19 kills),
Schmidt (16) and Ries (13) had the big offensive numbers...On the
night, San Bernardino owned almost all of the statistical advantages
except on the scoreboard...After hitting a measly .014 the first two
games, the Tritons exploded to post a .366 hitting percentage over the
final three games.
MEN’S SOCCER TO FINISH UP ’07 SEASON AT HOME
Interim
Head Coach Paul Holohan’s Men’s Soccer team, now mathematically
eliminated from CCAA Championship Tournament consideration, will finish
off its 2007 season with a pair of home make-up games—vs. Cal Poly
Pomona (today) and Cal State San Bernardino (Tuesday)...The Tritons,
playing well before having their schedule interrupted by the multiple
fires that ravaged the San Diego area last week, are 4-9-3 overall.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYS IN D2 DISNEY TIP-OFF CLASSIC
First-year
Head Coach Charity Elliott will get an early look at her inaugural
Triton club this weekend when the Women’s Basketball team goes up the
road to the Anaheim Convention Center to participate in the Disney
Tip-Off Classic...The tournament games, which will not be counted
against the NCAA season limit, will pit UCSD against Colorado Christian
(Fri.-2:00 PM), Augustana (Sat.-4:30 PM) and Western Washington
(Sun.-1:00 PM)...The Tritons return starters Michelle Osier and Meaghan
Noud from last year's squad that went to the NCAA Division II Final
four, as well as experienced seniors Alexis Mezzetta and Alexis Gaskin.
Osier scored 13 points and pulled down nine rebounds in the team's, 60-54, exhibition triumph over NAIA Biola Saturday night.
MEN’S HOOP SQUAD FACES UC RIVERSIDE IN EXHIBITION
The
Chris Carlson era of UCSD Men’s Basketball has its unofficial tip-off
when the Tritons venture to Division I UC Riverside for an exhibition
game Friday...The Tritons will play a second exhibition Nov. 17 at San
Diego State before traveling to Phoenix, Nov. 24, to face Grand Canyon
in the 2007-08 regular season opener...The team loses just one player,
sharpshooting guard Robby Peters, from last year's club and returns
senior guard Andrew Hatch, a former starter who sat out last season
with a foot injury.
GOLFERS CONCLUDE FALL SLATE IN HAWAII
Coach
Mike Wydra’s Golf team flies to Hawaii for the 54-hole Mauna Lani
Intercollegiate, being contested at the Mauna Lani North Course on the
Big Island of Hawaii...This last tournament of the fall season for
UCSD, starts with 36 holes today and concludes with 18 Tuesday.
The Tritons are coming off a seventh place (tie)
finish at last week’s Sonoma State Invitational...UCSD posted a team
total of 887 for the tourney, 38 strokes behind first place Chico
State...Sophomore Nathan Phan was the low individual for Wydra’s squad,
carding an even par 216, good for 15th (tie) place...Freshman Austin
Alfonso (T21st/221) was next for UCSD, followed by Ryan Bailey
(42nd/227), Billy Olsen (T43rd/228) and Bryan Olshock
(T45th/229)...Phan’s second round 69 was the best single 18 among the
five Triton players.
CSU BAKERSFIELD FIRST FOE FOR SWIMMERS/DIVERS
Coach
Scott McGihon’s Swimming & Diving team gets its first taste of
outside competition when it travels to Cal State Bakersfield Saturday
for a standard, 16-event dual meet against its former Division II
rivals...Despite fielding small travel rosters for this encounter,
McGihon is looking at a potential sweep...Top individuals for the women
are multi-eventers Aubrey Panis and Anje Shimura along with
breaststroker Kendall Bohn...Leading the men will be sprinters Dan
Perdew and Todd Langland as well as middle distance freestyle Greg
Goodell and diver Andrew Skewes.
EISTER-RUBENS TO PLAY AT ITA INDOOR NATIONALS
Coach
Eric Steidlmayer will take his top doubles twosome, Blake Meister and
Eric Rubens, to Columbus, OH this week for the ITA Indoor Doubles
Championship at Ohio State...Meister-Rubens, who won the recent ITA
Division II National Championship, will be the lone D-II entry in the
16-team field.
The Triton netters competed last week against a
primarily Division I field at the Chandler Cup in Berkeley...The top
performance was turned in by sophomore Bijan Moallemi who knocked off
the No. 2 seed in the first round and advanced to the quarterfinals of
the "A" singles flight before falling to the eventual winner Boris
Katsarov of host Cal...Senior Eric Rubens won the consolation bracket
of "B" singles.
MEN’S EIGHT LOOKING FOR REPEAT AT NEWPORT
Coach
Zach Johnson’s Men’s Crew team hits the water Saturday in defense of
its varsity eight title at the annual Newport Autumn Rowing Festival at
Newport Harbor...The Triton V-8 won last year’s event for the first
time ever and will be seeded No. 1 at this year’s edition...Competition
includes USC, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Irvine and a host of other West Coast
collegiate entries...Back from last year’s winning crew are Gil
Collins, Shawn Hay, Nathan Taylor and Derek Huffman, along with Ryan
Andre who worked his way into the starting lineup later in the year.
FENCERS IN FIVE-WAY DUAL SATURDAY
Coach
Heidi Runyan’s Fencing team goes to Pasadena Saturday where it will
hook up with four rivals from the Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of
Southern California (IFCSC)—USC, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and Arizona
State...The five teams will engage in a series of duals against each of
the four other schools.
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