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LOS ANGELES -- UCLA senior goalkeeper Bernardo Maurizi (Florence, Italy/Salesiani Firenze) has been named the MPSF West/Delfina Player of the Week as announced by the league office today.

Maurizi registered 26 saves over the two and a half games he played to help the Bruins win the UC San Diego Invitational (Sept. 3-4). He had eight saves and two steals against No. 8 UC Santa Barbara. He played the second half in the win over No. 7 UC Davis and had seven saves, one steal, and one assist, while only allowing two goals. He then had 11 saves and three steals in the win over No. 2 USC. He had an impressive goals against average of 5.6 against three Top 10 teams this past weekend.

This is Maurizi's first career MPSF weekly award.

Others nominated: Marcus Longton (USC), Quinn Woodhead (Stanford), Nikolaos Papanikolaou (Cal).

The Bruins will host No. 5 Long Beach State in their home opener on Friday, Sept. 9 at 7:00 p.m. PT at Dirks Pool at Spieker Aquatics Center.