THE SCHEDULE
Match 13
at Cal State Monterey Bay (6-5, 3-3 CCAA)
Friday, Oct. 17 • 3 p.m.
Otter Sports Complex • Seaside
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Match 14
at SF State (7-5, 2-4 CCAA)
Sunday, Oct. 19 • 2 p.m.
Cox Stadium • San Francisco
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TRITONS FACE SECOND STRAIGHT HOME DATE WITH TOP-10 FOE
The UC San Diego women's soccer team begins the final stretch run of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) schedule this weekend. The Tritons, still in the postseason mix, face a season-long four-match road stretch starting this Friday, Oct. 17, at Cal State Monterey Bay (3 p.m.). UCSD then heads San Francisco to take on the SF State Gators on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 2 p.m. Both games will follow the Triton men at 12:30 p.m. and 11:30 a.m., respectively, and have live stats. Sunday's match at SF State will also feature live streaming videocourtesy of GatorTV and Ustream.

A LOOK BACK AT LAST WEEK
UCSD gained a home split last weekend by cruising past Cal State East Bay, 5-1, on Sunday, Oct. 12. Five different Tritons found the back of the net in Kiera Bocchino, Izzy Pozurama, Kylie Hill, Kristen Sampietro and Katie O'Laughlin (Carlsbad/Pacific Ridge School). Bocchino's equalizer came just 37 seconds after the visitors had opened the scoring, and within nine minutes, it was 3-1 as UCSD ultimately tallied five unanswered. The Tritons earlier suffered a 4-2 loss to then-seventh-ranked defending CCAA champion Cal State Stanislaus on Friday, Oct. 10. The Warriors struck for three goals over 14 minutes in the first half, and took a player advantage following a red-card ejection in the 38th. A spirited second-half rally saw Hill and Jordyn McNutt (San Diego/University City HS) make it a 3-2 game with just over 20 minutes to go, but Stanislaus finally clinched the three points in the 84th.

POSTSEASON PICTURE
Sunday's win over Cal State East Bay vaulted UCSD over the Pioneers and alone into eighth place in the 12-team CCAA standings with seven points. The top six make it into the CCAA Championship. The weekend ahead is another critical one for the Tritons. Their first opponent, Cal State Monterey Bay, is two points ahead in a three-way tie for fifth with nine points apiece. UCSD would leapfrog the Otters with a second straight victory. Sunday's foe, SF State, heads into the weekend a single point behind the Tritons. Of UCSD's five remaining matches, three come against teams that are currently below them in the standings.

GOALS KEEP COMING FOR CALLAHAN
All-American central midfielder Cassie Callahan notched her 20th career goal to cap the scoring in a 3-0 win at Saint Martin's on Sept. 6. She has since tallied two more to give her 22 for her career, with no fewer than 11 of those strikes, including two this season, coming off of headers. Callahan's most important strike so far in 2014 was her 80th-minute game-winning volley to hand No. 8 Cal State San Bernardino its first loss on Oct. 3 in La Jolla. The graduate of Coronado High School led UCSD in goals, assists, total points, shots and shots on goal in each of the past two seasons. She is currently second behind Jordyn McNutt atop UCSD's goal chart, tied with fellow seniorIzzy Pozurama. Callahan and Pozurama are second-year captains in 2014.

GREAT COLLEGIATE INTRODUCTION FOR LOCAL ROOKIE
Jordyn McNutt, a San Diego native and true freshman out of nearby University City High School, has made an exceptional impression thus far in her very first year of college soccer. From her position as a wing midfielder, she paces UCSD with four goals, six assists and 14 points. Her assist total ranks her in a three-way tie for second in the CCAA, with one helper coming on Cassie Callahan's late winner against No. 8 CSUSB on Oct. 3. McNutt earlier provided a pair of two-assist efforts against Saint Martin's and Azusa Pacific, setting up both goals in the latter contest, a come-from-behind 2-1 triumph in double overtime. She has appeared in 11 of 12 matches with 10 starts, having been forced to miss the league opener at Cal State L.A. on Sept. 26 through injury. Three of McNutt's assists have come on corner kicks.

NEW MARK FOR BRODSKY
Junior Triton goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky's 13 saves in a 1-1 home draw with Cal State L.A. on Sept. 22 marked a new UCSD record for the NCAA Division II era (since 2000). It fell just one shy of matching the school mark of 14 set by Jennelle Welling in 1991 against Cal State Dominguez Hills. The 31 shots Brodsky faced that evening, is believed to be a new program record for a UCSD opponent. The Agoura Hills product has started all 12 matches in 2014. She continues to lead the CCAA in saves with 55.

TRITON NOTES
Three of the Tritons' four goals in a 4-2 win at Cal State Dominguez Hills on Sept. 19 came on headers ... UCSD was picked to finish fifth by league head coaches in the CCAA preseason coaches' poll, garnering two of the 12 first-place votes ... The 2014 senior class is made up of Cassie Callahan, Kylie Hill, Kiley Leshin and Izzy Pozurama ... Opposite those four seniors and 18 total returners on the 27-player 2014 UCSD roster are nine newcomers ... Eight players are from San Diego, in Cassie Callahan (Coronado/Coronado HS), Maile Nilsson(San Diego/The Preuss School UCSD), Maxia Espino (Chula Vista/Hilltop HS), Devon Roncoroni (San Diego/Bonita Vista HS), and newcomers Jordyn McNutt (San Diego/University City HS), Katie O'Laughlin(Carlsbad/Pacific Ridge School), Anna Nilsson (San Diego/The Preuss School UCSD) and Taylor Ramos (San Diego/Coronado HS) ... Anna is the younger sister of Maile ... Another newcomer, redshirt sophomore midfielderMeghan Berry, calls Austin, Texas, home, but attended San Diego Miramar College the past two years after graduating from Mt. Carmel High School.

HEAD COACH BRIAN McMANUS
Brian McManus is in his 28th season in charge of the UCSD women's soccer program. With a career record of 446-78-49, he has achieved the second-most wins (three behind Gabe Mejail of Merrimack College) in NCAA Division II women's soccer history. McManus' career winning percentage heading into 2014 of .828, ranks among the top 10 in college women's soccer annals, both overall (No. 9) and Division II only (No. 4). He is fifth among all divisions in wins. McManus has directed UCSD to seven national championships and a record eight CCAA banners, with the Tritons advancing to the national semifinals a remarkable 15 times in his 27 years. Under his guidance, UCSD has qualified for the NCAA tournament all 13 seasons during the Division III days, and all but two of 14 years (2004, 2013) since the move up to Division II. Last season marked the first time McManus' Tritons missed a CCAA Championship, having qualified for 13 straight after joining the conference.

ABOUT THE OTTERS
Cal State Monterey Bay is 6-5 overall and an even 3-3 in the CCAA, sitting in a three-way tie for fifth with nine points, just ahead of UCSD. The Otters made some significant noise when they knocked off then-third-ranked defending CCAA champion Cal State Stanislaus, 1-0, in Seaside back on Sept. 28. Junior forward Kristen Womack was the goal-scorer in the 62nd minute. In general, CSUMB has found success at home in 2014, posting a 5-1 mark there while just 1-4 on the road. The Otters most recently split a pair away from home, losing 1-0 at first-place Cal State L.A. before edging Cal State Dominguez Hills, 2-1 in overtime, in Carson on Sunday. That win came via Regan Porteous' team-leading sixth goal at 98:26. Erin Reinke is in her fourth season at the helm.

SERIES HISTORY
UCSD is a perfect 10-0 in the all-time series, outscoring the Otters, 34-4. That includes a 1-0 victory in La Jolla in the most recent match-up on Oct. 27, 2013, as Jessica Dang turned in a right-sided Kiera Bocchino cross in the 54th minute. The Tritons are 5-0 against CSUMB in Seaside. They posted a 2-0 victory there in 2012, with goals coming in either half by Izzy Pozurama off the rebound of a Cassie Callahan shot, and Ellen Wilson from the penalty spot. The Otters have gone scoreless in their last 328:38 against UCSD.

ABOUT THE GATORS
SF State is 7-5 overall and 2-4 CCAA heading into a home date with Cal Poly Pomona on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. The Gators are tied with Cal State East Bay in ninth behind UCSD with six points each. They are 3-2 at home in 2014, and are coming off of a weekend road split. SFSU blanked Cal State Dominguez Hills last Friday, 1-0, before suffering a 2-0 defeat at first-place Cal State L.A. on Sunday. The winner in Carson came in the 47th minute from sophomore forward Autumn Fox, her fourth of 2014 to tie her for the team lead with senior midfielder Elizet Ceja. Long-time head coach Jack Hyde is in his 32nd season in charge of the Gators.

SERIES HISTORY
UCSD leads the all-time series, 14-3-5. The Tritons swept two-game sets in both 2011 and 2012 while SF State was a fellow member of the CCAA South, and had won five straight in all, prior to a 1-1 draw in La Jolla last Oct. 25. UCSD had not allowed a goal to the Gators over 338:35 prior to Stephanie Vanni's 29th-minute opener.Jessica Dang got the equalizer from a free kick with just 30 seconds left in the first half. The Tritons are still unbeaten against SF State over their last eight (5-0-3), including another 1-1 tie in Turlock in the semifinals of the 2010 CCAA Championsip before the Gators advanced on penalty kicks, 4-3.

NEW YEAR, NEW FORMAT IN CCAA
The CCAA has made changes to its regular-season and tournament formats in men's and women's soccer for the 2014 season. The six-team, two-division alignment is no more, now with just one 12-team league table. Rather than a 16-game regular-season schedule with two matches against divisional opponents and one against out-of-division foes, each team faces one another once, for a total of 11 CCAA contests. The top six teams in the final standings advance to the CCAA Championship, up from four in prior years. The first- and second-place finishers get first-round byes, with those two games held at campus sites of the higher seeds. The venue for the 2014 CCAA Championship semifinals and final has been announced as Warrior Stadium on the campus of Cal State Stanislaus in Turlock for the second year in a row and the fifth time in the last six years. The winner on the women's side will once again gain automatic entry into the NCAA Championship.

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UP NEXT
UCSD concludes this road stretch next weekend, playing at No. 8 Sonoma State on Oct. 24 and at Humboldt State on Oct. 26.

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