49ERS CLOSE OUT SEASON THIS WEEKEND WEEKLY RELEASE (PDF) BEACH CLOSE OUT YEAR
The 49ers (5-9-4, 3-2-2 BWC) will close out the 2002 season this weekend by hosting Pacific (10-5-2, 2-3-2 BWC) on Friday at 3 p.m. and CS Northridge (1-13-1, 1-5-1 BWC) on Sunday at 1 p.m. With just one more victory, The Beach will tie the club record for conference victories in a season. On Sunday, LBSU will honor five athletes appearing in their final match--Sarah Gamet (El Cajon), Sarah Aguilar (Temecula), Becky Ricci (San Diego), Hannah Cochrun (Irvine) and Marisa Barragan (Long Beach). HOST PACIFIC
Nov. 1 | 3 p.m.
RECORD: 10-5-2, 2-3-2 BWC
Quick Kicks: UOP is coming off two straight home wins over Utah State and Idaho (both 4-0)... Pacific began the year on a seven-match win streak... Gabby Olivares leads the club with 20 points, equating to eight goals and four assists... Suzy Peterson has five goals and four assists... goalie Megan Pickering has a 0.93 goal against average, ranking near the top of the Big West charts.
SERIES: The Tigers lead the all-time series 3-1, winning last year 2-1.
HEAD COACH: Keith Coleman (90-67-14, 9th year)
HOST CS NORTHRIDGE
Nov. 3 | 1 p.m.
RECORD: 2-13-1, 1-5-1 BWC
The Matadors play at UC Irvine on Friday
Quick Kicks: In a huge turnaound, Northridge was 12-3-2 and 6-2-1 last year... at one point, CSUN had lost 12 in a row, with six of those losses coming by a single goal... the Matadors defeated Idaho 3-1 and lost to Utah State 1-0, both at home... Melissa Cleal leads the club with five asssits and nine points... Shannon DeVos and Cindy Mallett each have seven points
HEAD COACH: Allison Lee (31-30-9, 4th year)
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LAST WEEK
The 49ers, who entered the week undefeated in Big West play, managed just one goal, losing at Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara. The Beach lost 2-1 to Cal Poly, as the Mustangs held on after scoring the go-ahead goal in the 67th minute. Sarah Aguilar tied it at 1-1 in the 48th minute. On Sunday, UCSB's Jennifer Borcich scored in the 88th minute on a free kick to defeat LBSU 1-0.
AT THE HELM
Veteran coach Peter Reynaud (CS Hayward ‘72) is in his second year as head coach. Now in his 21st season as a head coach, Reynaud is 237-129-29. With 237 victories, Reynaud ranks fourth amongst activie coaches in wins.
READY TO BREAK VINYL
Junior Abie Curry (Chico) is on the verge of breaking two LBSU career marks. Curry, with 10 goals, is tied for the school-record with Jennifer Reott (1998-2000), and with 22 points, is fourth all-time, just three points away from tying Kelli Barrett's (1998-2000) two year old mark.
CLOSE TO A SCHOOL-RECORD
With just one more conference victory, the 49ers will tie the 2000 team for the school-record for conference victories, with 4. The 2000 squad went 4-2-2 in Head Coach Julie Cochrun's final season.
SUITING UP ONE LAST TIME
Five athletes, who have been instrumental in building the five year old program, will call The Beach their home for the last time this weekend:
MF-Sarah Aguilar (Temecula): A three-year starter, Aguilar, with two more games played, will have played in the fourth most games in school-history, she currently has 67... her 69 shots ranks fifth all-time... has six goals in her career, sixth-best all-time... majoring in history.
F-Marissa Barragan (Long Beach/Poly HS): Suffered her second knee injury in as many years, ending her LBSU career after the second week of the season... she ended her career with 10 points and four goals... her 55 career shots ranks fifth all-time... majoring in human development.
GK-Hannah Cochrun (Irvine): A junior, athletically, Cochrun will suit up in goal for the final time this weekend after four years with The Beach (she redshirted in 1999)... Cochrun will leave LBSU with the all-time school-record for goals against average at 1.35... her 120 career saves ranks second all-time... she also has the top two single-season GAA records with a 1.03 averge in 2000 and a 1.16 average this year... majoring in criminal justice.
F-Sarah Gamet (El Cajon): A four-year starter, Gamet will have played in the second most games in a career if she plays in both games this weekend, she currently has 68 career games... named the 49ers 2001 Defender of the Year... named all-Ohana Shootout earlier this seaosn... has three career goals, all this season after moving from defender to forward, and three career assists... majoring in communications.
Becky Ricci (San Diego): Named honorable mention all-Big West and the team MVP in 2000... two-year captain and a four-year starter... will break the school-record for games played on Sunday, if she plays in both, currently she has 69 career games, tied for second-best all-time... has one career goal and three career assists... majoring in communications.
FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT
Looking to next year, The Beach will return 10 of the 12 players who scored goals this season, including leading scorer Abie Curry, and fellow all-conference honorees Diana Sanguinetti, Allison Wiegand, and Shanna Wender. In all, seven of the team's 11 starters are underclassmen.
SCHEDULE TOUGH AS NAILS
The 49ers provided themselves with a tough non-conference schedule, that helped them move towards the top of the Big West standings. So far this season, non-conference opponents have a combined 100-68-19 (.595) record. Pepperdine (No. 8) and Purdue (No. 13) are both ranked in the top-15, and are two of four opponents (Navy and San Diego State are the others) with 10 wins or more. Inall, nine of the 11 opponents have winning records.
WEEK'S TOP HONOR
Junior Abie Curry was named BWC Player of the Week on October 21, after her play led to victories over CSF and UCR, teams who had entered the week undefeated and 1-2 in the BWC standings. First, Curry tapped in Shanna Wender's (Fresno) pass with 22 seconds left against then-No. 25-ranked CS Fullerton. Two days later, Curry was knocked down in front of the net in the 82nd minute against UC Riverside. The ensuing penalty kick, by Diana Sanguinetti, proved to be the game-winner. The win over the Titans was believed to be the 49ers first-ever win over a ranked foe in the program's five year history.
LET'S PLAY 110 MINUTES
The 49ers have played in five overtime matches this season, one away from the school-record set last year. The Beach have also finished a match tied, four times this season, a school-record, breaking the 2000 team which finished in a tie three times.
ALL-TOURNAMENT SELECTIONS
Abie Curry (Chico), Sarah Gamet (El Cajon), Diana Sanguinetti (Stevenson Ranch) and Natalie Messina (Santa Rosa) were named all-Ohana Shootout in mid-September. Lauren Doffing (San Diego) was named to the Boilermaker Challenge Cup All-Tournament team in early-September.
BIG WEST COACHES POLL
CS Fullerton was picked to repeat as BWC champions with 99 points, followed by UCSB (81 points), Cal Poly (80), UC Irvine (65), Pacific (56), CS Northridge (50), LBSU (49), Idaho (33), Utah State (24) and UC Riverside (13). LBSU went 4-11-2 and 3-5-1 in the Big West for sixth place in 2001. NSCAA TOP-25
1. Stanford (15-1-0)
2. North Carolina (13-1-3)
3. Texas (14-2-1)
4. Portland (14-3-1)
5. Texas A&M (14-3-1)
6. UCLA (12-3-0)
7. West Virginia (15-1-1)
8. Pepperdine (14-1-2)
9. UConn (14-2-1)
10. Penn State (15-2-1)
11. Santa Clara (12-4-1)
12. Charlotte (14-0-2)
13. Purdue (12-3-1)
14. Tennessee (12-5-1)
15. Florida State (11-4-3)
16. USC (8-5-3)
17. Notre Dame (11-7-0)
18. Denver (13-1-2)
19. Princeton (12-1-0)
20. Clemson (10-6-0)
21. Michigan (13-4-1)
22. Dartmouth (10-3-1)
23. Maryland (10-6-0)
24. Arizona State (10-3-2)
25. Wake Forest (12-4-1)
REGIONAL RANKINGS OF NOTE
West
1. Stanford (15-1-0)
2. Portland (14-3-1)
3. Pepperdine (14-1-2)
3. UCLA (12-3-0)
5. Santa Clara (12-4-1)
6. USC (8-5-3)
7. Arizona State (10-3-2)
8. Brigham Young (12-5-0)
9. California (9-6-1)
9. Washington (8-5-3)
Great Lakes
1. Purdue (12-3-1)
Mid-Atlantic
8. Navy (13-0-4) |
