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WOODLAND, Calif. -- The UCLA Bruins have swept the weekly MPSF/KAP7 awards as announced by the league office today. Matthew Kacura (San Clemente, CA/Orange Lutheran HS) was named the MPSF/KAP7 Player of the Week while Bernardo Maurizi (Florence, Italy/Salesiani Firenze) was named the MPSF/KAP7 Newcomer of the Week.

Kacura led the Bruins in scoring to kick-off a 4-0 start to the season at the Navy Open (Sept. 7-8). He scored a total of nine goals in four games, after scoring 13 goals in 28 games a year ago. He scored two goals on two shots with two steals in the win over No. 12 Princeton. He completed the tournament with a career and MPSF weekend-high-tying six goals on seven shots, along with one field block, in a win over La Salle. The six goals tied the most by a Bruin in two years (Max Irving-6; Sept. 24, 2017). For the week, he converted 81.8 percent of his shots (9-for-11), adding three steals, two field blocks, one assist and one drawn exclusion. This is Kacura's first career MPSF weekly award.

Maurizi helped the Bruins go 4-0 to kick-off the season at the Navy Open (Sept. 7-8). He racked up 40 saves (16.00 SPG), while recording a goals-against average of 4.00. Maurizi tallied 13 saves while allowing three goals in his debut vs. Fordham. He played the second half of the win over Navy, registering eight stops with five allowed. He then made a record-setting appearance in a win over La Salle, recording a UCLA freshman record 19 saves, while giving up just two scores. It marked the most saves by a Bruin in four years (Garrett Danner-21; Nov. 22, 2015), and was the most for a UCLA regulation game in a decade (Chay Lapin-21; Nov. 1, 2009). This is the first career MPSF award for Maurizi.

UCLA returns to action on Saturday, Sept. 14 when they face San Jose State in their only countable game of the Stanford Invitational at 9:00 a.m. PT. The Bruins will then face three teams in exhibition play the rest of the weekend.