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UCLA Hosts Final Regular Season Home Series
October 17, 2018 | Women's Soccer
No. 9 UCLA (9-3-1, 4-2-0) vs. Oregon (7-6-1, 1-5-0)
Date/Time: Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 โ 6 p.m. PT
Venue: Wallis Annenberg Stadium
Television: Pac-12 Networks (Los Angeles, Oregon)
TV Talent: JB Long (play-by-play), Tracey Bailey (analyst)
Radio: ucla.leanplayer.com
Radio Talent: Nick Koop
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
Tickets: $10 adults/$5 military and youth; First 200 wearing pink receive free admission
Giveaways: Pink UCLA Soccer wristband (first 500 fans)
No. 9 UCLA (9-3-1, 4-2-0) vs. Oregon State (2-12-0, 1-5-0)
Date/Time: Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018 โ 12 p.m. PT
Venue: Wallis Annenberg Stadium
Television: Pac-12 Networks (Los Angeles)
TV Talent: Jim Watson (play-by-play), Tammy Blackburn (analyst)
Radio: ucla.leanplayer.com
Radio Talent: Nick Koop
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
Tickets: $10 adults/$5 military and youth
Pregame: Senior Celebration (Julia Hernandez, Hailie Mace)
Giveaways: Donuts (first 300 fans)
FINAL HOMESTAND
No. 9 UCLA (9-3-1, 4-2-0 in the Pac-12) hosts the Oregon schools this week in the Bruins' final regular season homestand of the season. First up for UCLA is Oregon (7-6-1, 1-5-0) on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 6pm in the team's annual Breast Cancer Awareness game. The first 200 fans wearing pink will receive free admission, and the first 500 fans in attendance will receive a pink UCLA soccer wristband. The regular season home finale will take place on Sunday, Oct. 21 at 12pm, with the Bruins hosting Oregon State (2-12-0, 1-5-0) on Senior Day. Both matches will be televised on Pac-12 Los Angeles.
HONORING THE 2013 NCAA CHAMPIONS
Five years after the Bruins won their first-ever NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, the 2013 UCLA squad will be recognized at halftime of Thursday's game. The championship was won in Amanda Cromwell's first year as head coach. Assistant coach Sam Greene was also part of the squad as a director of operations. Eight of UCLA's 11 starters in that NCAA Championship game currently play in the NWSL (Katelyn Rowland, Caprice Dydasco, Abby Dahlkemper, Darian Jenkins, Taylor Smith, Sarah Killion, Megan Oyster and Sam Mewis).
SENIOR SALUT
E UCLA will honor senior forwards Julia Hernandez and Hailie Mace prior to Sunday's game. Hernandez, an applied mathematics major, is a first-team CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree and two-time UCLA All-Academic team member with seven goals in 55 games played at UCLA. Mace will return in time for her senior day after spending most of the 2018 campaign with the U.S. Women's National Team. Mace scored 15 goals in a 2017 season in which she earned first-team All-America honors and became a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy. This season, she was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List and was selected as a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award.
MACE, FLEMING TO RETURN
After helping their respective countries qualify to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup at the CONCACAF Women's Championship, first-team All-Americans Hailie Mace (U.S.) and Jessie Fleming (Canada) return to Westwood this week after the championship match Wednesday. Fleming has started and played in three games in the tournament, scoring a goal and being named the Player of the Match in the 7-0 semifinal win over Panama on Sunday. Mace earned her first USWNT start in a 5-0 win over Panama in group play, playing all 90 minutes. Both Mace and Fleming have played limited games for UCLA this fall while on national team duty, playing together just twice this year - in a 1-0 win over Long Beach State and in a 3-0 win at LMU - for a grand total of 84 minutes. Mace has played in five games, while Fleming has participated in just three. Two of UCLA's three losses, plus the tie, have come during their absence.
SHEEHAN, MICAH HONORED BY PAC-12
A pair of UCLA women's soccer players earned Pac-12 weekly honors this week, as sophomore Delanie Sheehan was named the conference's Defensive Player of the Week, and junior Teagan Micah was awarded the Goalkeeper of the Week for the second time this year and sixth time in her career after the Bruins' 2-0 shutout win at Washington. Sheehan, playing left back, not only helped limit the Huskies to just four shots on goal, but she also scored a goal in the 83rd minute to double the Bruins' lead. Micah posted her fifth solo shutout of the season, making four saves in the contest to move into fourth on UCLA's career saves list.
MICAH CLIMBING CHARTS
Junior goalkeeper Teagan Micah continues to climb the UCLA career charts, moving up to fourth for saves (179) and fifth for wins (39) and shutouts (23). Micah currently holds a 362-minute shutout streak and has not allowed a goal in her last five games. Her current goals against average is 0.61, and UCLA has held opponents scoreless in seven of the nine games she has played this year.
VIVA VIV
Sophomore midfielder Viviana Villacorta has been on a tear in Pac-12 play, scoring all of her points in the last five games. She scored her first collegiate goal against Stanford, a goal and an assist at Cal and a goal and an assist against Arizona. Villacorta ranks tied for third on the team in goals scored with three and is tied for third on the team in scoring with eight points.
NOTABLES
Twelve different Bruin players have scored goals this season, led by Ashley Sanchez and Anika Rodriguez, who have four each. Delanie Sheehan, Viviana Villacorta and Maricarmen Reyes each have three. Other Bruin goal scorers are Hailie Mace and Olivia Athens with two and Chloe Castaneda, Karina Rodriguez, Kennedy Faulknor, Sunny Dunphy and Jessie Fleming with one each โฆ Ashley Sanchez has recorded a goal or assist in the last four games, all UCLA victories โฆ UCLA has utilized 11 different starting lineups in 13 games this year. The starting lineups vs. Stanford, Cal and Arizona State are the only repeat starting lineups โฆ Delanie Sheehan is one of three players who has started in every game, starting the first four games as a midfielder and then moving to right back in game five as the Bruins' depth at the outside back positions has waned due to injuries. She has been playing at left back since the Arizona State match โฆ Marley Canales returned to the pitch at Cal after missing five games due to injury and returned to the starting lineup last week at Washington โฆ Anika Rodriguez, who has decided to return in 2019 for her fifth year, injured her knee in the Arizona State contest and is out indefinitely.
MAINSTAYS
With UCLA's lineup in flux due to national team assignments and injuries, only three players have started every game this season - defenders Kaiya McCullough and Karina Rodriguez and midfielder Delanie Sheehan. Six other Bruins have played in all 13 games - Chloe Castaneda, Kennedy Faulknor, Olivia Athens, Julia Hernandez, Sunny Dunphy and Viviana Villacorta. Rodriguez leads the team with 1160 minutes played, followed by McCullough with 1118. Viviana Villacorta ranks third with 1042 minutes, Sheehan has totaled 997, and Ashley Sanchez has 948.
WINNERS IN THE CLASSROOM
For the seventh consecutive year, UCLA was recognized as a winner of the United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award, which recognizes exemplary performance in the classroom during the 2017-18 academic year. The Bruins posted a 3.189 composite team GPA.
NEW HOME
After playing home games at Drake Stadium from 2000-17, the UCLA soccer teams have moved into a new home, Wallis Annenberg Stadium. The stadium, which seats 2,145, is located at the previously-named North Athletic Field, where UCLA played selected home games from 1967-99. The new stadium was made possible thanks to a $5 million lead gift from the Annenberg Foundation. The just-completed first phase of the stadium project includes grandstand seating and press box on the west side, a Daktronics LED video board and Musco Sports lighting. Future phases of the stadium project may include expanded stadium seating, a training room, student-athlete locker room, coaches' locker rooms, meeting spaces, ticketing space, and a new press box. UCLA won its first game in the new stadium in dramatic fashion on Aug. 17, with Hailie Mace scoring the game-winning goal with two seconds remaining in a 1-0 win over Long Beach State. A record crowd of 2,496 fans attended the Bruins' game vs. Washington State on Sept. 21 in the Pac-12 opener.
NATIONAL TEAMS
UCLA has a plethora of national team players on its 2018 squad, including five who have earned call-ups to the full national team - Hailie Mace and Ashley Sanchez (U.S.), Jessie Fleming and Kennedy Faulknor (Canada), and Teagan Micah (Australia). Mace has three caps with the senior national team, Fleming has 56, and Faulknor has four. Three Bruins started for their respective countries at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup this summer - Sanchez, Viviana Villacorta (U.S.) and Maricarmen Reyes (Mexico). Two others - Delanie Sheehan and Karina Rodriguez - were on the U.S. U-20 squad at the 2018 CONCACAF Championships. and nine more have played with various U.S. Youth National Teams in their career - Olivia Athens (U-18), Lauren Brzykcy (U-17), Marley Canales (2018 U-23s, 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup), Chloe Castaneda (U-17), Maddi Desiano (U-19), Sunny Dunphy (U-19), Jacey Pederson (U-19), Kaiya McCullough (U-19), and Anika Rodriguez (U-23). In addition, Julia Hernandez played with the Spanish U-17 National Team, Olivia de Moraes with the Brazilian U-17 team and Shana Flynn with the Canadian U-20s.
INSTA-LEADERS
UCLA women's soccer leads all collegiate soccer teams, men or women, in Instagram followers, boasting 37.8k followers. The Bruins are also in the Top 5 in NCAA women's soccer in Twitter followers with 15.3k. Follow UCLA Women's Soccer at @UCLAWSoccer on both Instagram and Twitter and /UCLAWSoccer on Facebook.
