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UCLA Returns Home to Host Pepperdine Friday
September 05, 2018 | Women's Soccer
GAME INFORMATION
Date: Friday, Sept. 7, 2018
Kickoff Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium)
Television: Pac-12 Networks
TV Talent: Christian Miles (play-by-play), Tammy Blackburn (analyst)
Internet Radio: ucla.leanplayer.com
Radio Talent: Nick Koop
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
Tickets: $10 adults / $5 military & youth (3-12)
Promotions: First 100 fans receive a UCLA tote bag
HOME SWEET HOME
After 12 days on the road, No. 7 UCLA (2-1-1) returns to the friendly confines of Wallis Annenberg Stadium for a non-conference matchup against Pepperdine (1-4-0) on Friday, Sept. 7 at 7pm. The Bruins have not played at home since Aug. 17, when they beat Long Beach State 1-0 in the final seconds of the game.
BRUINS RETURN FROM NATIONAL TEAM DUTY
UCLA All-Americans Hailie Mace and Jessie Fleming missed last week's games in Florida while with their respective national teams. Mace, who also missed the Bruins' game at Penn State, earned her second career cap while playing 16 minutes in the USA's 3-0 win over Chile on Aug. 31. Fleming did not play in Canada's 1-0 win over Brazil Sept. 2.
SCOUTING THE WAVES
Pepperdine has had a tough start to the 2018 season, going 1-5 and scoring just two goals. Three of the Waves' losses, however, have come against teams currently in the Top 25 - No. 4 USC, No. 16 and No. 25 Texas Tech. The Waves are led by Hailey Harison, who was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy watch list, and fellow preseason All-WCC honorees Joelle Anderson and Brielle Preece.
SERIES WITH PEPPERDINE
UCLA leads the overall series with Pepperdine, 18-3-3. Last year's matchup in Westwood saw the Waves tie the No. 1 Bruins to break UCLA's seven-game win streak to start the season. UCLA is unbeaten in its last eight games against Pepperdine, whose last win came in 2010 (1-0 in Los Angeles). The Bruins' last win over the Waves came in 2016 (3-0 in Malibu).
ROAD SPLIT
Playing without first-team All-Americans Hailie Mace and Jessie Fleming, UCLA split its three road matches on its 12-day road trip, first beating No. 3 Penn State, 2-1, on Aug. 25. The Bruins tied No. 22 Florida, 0-0, on Aug. 31 before falling to No. 4 Florida State, 4-1.
REYES NETS FIRST
Freshman midfielder Maricarmen Reyes made her first touch in the Florida State game count, scoring her first collegiate goal in the first half. Reyes had just entered the game 90 seconds earlier when she volleyed a clearance into the lower left corner from 15 yards out. The Mexican Under-20 National Team member also made an impact in the Florida game, providing a spark off the bench with four shots.
MICAH MOVES INTO TOP 5
Junior goalkeeper Teagan Micah has moved into UCLA's all-time Top 5 in career saves with 168 after adding six more to her total in the Florida State game. She is just nine saves away from catching No. 4 CiCi Peterson, who made 177 saves from 1998-2001. With 36 career wins, Micah is one away from tying Chante' Sandiford for fifth in career wins, and she is already in the Top 5 with 20 career shutouts.
MAINSTAYS
With UCLA's lineup in a state of flux early due to national team assignments, only five players have started every game this season - goalkeeper Teagan Micah, defenders Kaiya McCullough and Karina Rodriguez and midfielders Marley Canales and Delanie Sheehan. Micah, McCullough and Rodriguez have played in all 380 minutes.
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.
2017 IN REVIEW
UCLA advanced to the NCAA Championship match for the second time in five years under head coach Amanda Cromwell, who earned her 300th career coaching victory in 2017. The Bruins started the season by winning their first seven games and going unbeaten in their first 14 games. A 3-2 overtime win over USC in front of a NCAA regular season record crowd of 11,925 set the table for a deep postseason run. UCLA's playoff run was highlighted by late game-winning goals by Anika Rodriguez in both the second and third rounds and a shootout victory over Duke in the semifinals. Two Bruin players - midfielder Jessie Fleming and forward Hailie Mace - earned first-team All-America honors, and Fleming was a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy.
FOUR ON MAC HERMANN TROPHY WATCH LIST
Four members of the UCLA women's soccer team have been selected to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List for 2018, including 2017 finalist Jessie Fleming and 2017 semifinalist Hailie Mace. Also earning selection to the watch list are All-Region honorees Kaiya McCullough and Ashley Sanchez. The MAC Hermann Trophy, presented by World Wide Technology, is the most prestigious individual award in college soccer and is presented annually to the most outstanding male and female players of the year.
BRUINS EARN PRESEASON AWARDS
Five Bruins were selected by TopDrawerSoccer.com for its preseason awards. Junior midfielder Jessie Fleming made the Preseason Best XI first team, junior forward Hailie Mace was selected to the second team, and junior defender Kaiya McCullough and sophomore forward Ashley Sanchez were named to the third team. Midfielder Maricarmen Reyes earned a spot on the Freshman Best XI team.
THREE BRUINS PLAY IN UNDER-20 WORLD CUP
UCLA had three players in France earlier this month for the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup. Sophomores Ashley Sanchez and Viviana Villacorta represented the U.S., which went 1-1-1 in group play. Sanchez scored a goal, and Villacorta had two assists in a 6-0 victory over Paraguay. Freshman Maricarmen Reyes' Mexico squad went 1-2-0 in group play. All three Bruins started in all three games.
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). Three played at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup this summer - Sanchez, Viviana Villacorta and Maricarmen Reyes. 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.
BRUINS IN THE NWSL
UCLA had 14 players in the NWSL in 2018, and eight of them will be partcipating in the four-team playoff, which culminates in the NWSL Championship on Sept. 22. The North Carolina Courage, which won its second consecutive NWSL Shield with the best regular season record, has five Bruins on the squad - Abby Dahlkemper, Darian Jenkins, Sam Mewis, Katelyn Rowland and McCall Zerboni. Seattle Reign has two Bruins, Lauren Barnes and Megan Oyster, and the Chicago Red Stars have one, Rosie White.
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 and Sam Greene and volunteer assistant Jane Alukonis.
INSTA-LEADERS
UCLA women's soccer leads all collegiate soccer teams, men or women, in Instagram followers, boasting nearly 33k followers. The Bruins are also in the Top 5 in NCAA women's soccer in Twitter followers with 15k. Follow UCLA Women's Soccer at @UCLAWSoccer on both Instagram and Twitter and /UCLAWSoccer on Facebook.
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