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Women's Soccer Hosts Oregon State Sunday on Senior Day
October 19, 2018 | Women's Soccer
No. 9 UCLA (10-3-1, 5-2-0) vs. Oregon State (2-13-0, 1-6-0)
Date/Time: Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018 โ 12 p.m. PT
Venue: Wallis Annenberg Stadium
Kickoff Time: 12:00 p.m. PT
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)
REGULAR SEASON HOME FINALE
No. 9 UCLA (10-3-1, 5-2-0 in the Pac-12) wraps up its regular season home schedule on Sunday, Oct. 21 at 12pm, with the Bruins hosting Oregon State (2-13-0, 1-6-0) on Senior Day. UCLA seniors Julia Hernandez and Hailie Mace will be honored in pregame ceremonies, which will begin at approximately 11:45am.
SENIOR SALUTE
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 56 games played at UCLA. Mace just returned from the CONCACAF Women's Championship, starting one game as the U.S. won the tournament and qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Despite playing just five games for the Bruins in 2018, she ranks fourth in scoring with eight points (2g, 4a). 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 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, came 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.
SANCHEZ STREAK
Sophomore forward Ashley Sanchez has scored a goal or assist in each of the last five games, totaling three goals and three assists during her scoring streak. Not coincidentally, her streak is aligned with the Bruins' five-game winning streak. Sanchez leads the team in goals (five), points (14) and shots (45) and is tied for second in assists with four.
MICAH CLIMBING CHARTS
Junior goalkeeper Teagan Micah continues to climb the UCLA career charts, moving up to fourth for saves (180) and fifth for wins (40) and shutouts (23). Micah had a 367-minute shutout streak snapped on Thursday but has allowed just one goal in her last six games. Her current goals against average is 0.65, and UCLA has held opponents scoreless in seven of the 10 games she has played this year.
VIVA VIV
Sophomore midfielder Viviana Villacorta has been on a tear in Pac-12 play, scoring all nine of her points in the last six games. She scored her first collegiate goal against Stanford, a goal and an assist at Cal and against Arizona, and an assist against Oregon. Villacorta ranks tied for third on the team in goals scored with three and is third on the team in scoring with nine points.
NOTABLES
Twelve different Bruin players have scored goals this season, led by Ashley Sanchez, who has five, and Anika Rodriguez, who has four. Delanie Sheehan, Viviana Villacorta and Maricarmen Reyes each have three. Other Bruin goal scorers are Hailie Mace, Olivia Athens and Kennedy Faulknor with two and Chloe Castaneda, Karina Rodriguez, Sunny Dunphy and Jessie Fleming with one each โฆ UCLA has utilized 12 different starting lineups in 14 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 outside back in game five as the Bruins' depth at that position has waned due to injuries. She has played at both the left and right back positions 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 Jacey Pederson started the second half of the Oregon game; she had previously missed 10 games due to injury 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 โฆ Head coach Amanda Cromwell is just five wins away from her 100th victory at UCLA.
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 14 games - Chloe Castaneda, Kennedy Faulknor, Olivia Athens, Julia Hernandez, Sunny Dunphy and Viviana Villacorta. Rodriguez leads the team with 1250 minutes played, followed by McCullough with 1208. Viviana Villacorta ranks third with 1132 minutes, Sheehan has totaled 1087, and Ashley Sanchez has 1038.
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 57, 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 38k 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.
NWSL CHAMPIONS
Five UCLA women's soccer alumnae won the 2018 NWSL Championship with the North Carolina Courage, who defeated Portland FC, 3-0, in the championship match on Sept. 22. Abby Dahlkemper, Katelyn Rowland and Sam Mewis started and played all 90 minutes for the Courage in the victory, and Darian Jenkins played the final minute. McCall Zerboni, a finalist for the NWSL MVP, was unavailable for the Courage after suffering a broken elbow in a U.S. National Team game earlier in the month.
GIRL POWER
UCLA features an all-female coaching staff, led by head coach Amanda Cromwell, who ranks among the nation's Top 25 winningest active coaches with 308 career wins and a .705 winning percentage at the start of the season. Cromwell's assistant coaches are two-time Olympian Jenny Bindon, Sam Greene and volunteer assistant Jane Alukonis. Cromwell, who was inducted into the inaugural class of the Annandale High School Athletic Hall of Fame earlier this month, is a former U.S. National Team player who was a member of the U.S. team at the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup and an alternate for the 1996 Olympic team.
LOOKING AHEAD
UCLA ends the regular season on the road at Utah Oct. 25, Colorado Oct. 28 and USC Nov. 2. The USC contest will be played at Stubhub Center in Carson, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy. The Bruins are 2-0 in games played there against USC, winning 2-0 in 2014 and 1-0 in 2016.
