THE SCHEDULE
Match 18 - CCAA Championship First Round
at Cal Poly Pomona (12-4-1)
Sunday, Nov. 2 • 11:30 a.m.
Kellogg Field • Pomona
Live Stats

TRITONS RETURN TO CCAA CHAMPIONSHIP IN POMONA SUNDAY
After a one-year absence, the UC San Diego women's soccer team returns to the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championship this Sunday, Nov. 2. The Tritons (9-5-3) are record eight-time champions. As the No. 6 seed, they travel to Pomona to face No. 3 seed Cal Poly Pomona in the first round. Kickoff at Kellogg Field is set for 11:30 a.m. The match will have live stats. UCSD is 5-2-2 away from home in 2014. Sunday's winner will advance to the semifinals at Warrior Stadium in Turlock on the campus of Cal State Stanislaus on Friday, Nov. 7. That match would be against No. 2 seed Chico State at 11 a.m.

ADMISSION
Tickets for Sunday's CCAA Championship first-round match at Kellogg Field in Pomona will be $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and students. Parking on the CPP campus is $3 on weekends.

CLOCKS BACK
Before heading to Pomona on Sunday, don't forget to set your clocks back one hour late Saturday night. At precisely 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 2, clocks go back an hour.

CCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
The Tritons are in search of a record ninth CCAA title, with the last one coming in 2012. UCSD is 14-3-4 over its 13 previous appearances at the event. The Tritons had been eliminated in the semifinal round of each of their previous three CCAA tournaments, all in Turlock, with the first two via penalty-kick tiebreakers, in between banners in 2008 in La Jolla and 2012 in Carson.

A LOOK BACK AT THURSDAY NIGHT
UCSD was clearly the better side from the outset and overwhelmed Cal State Dominguez Hills, 3-0, on Senior Night at Triton Soccer Stadium on Thursday. The result clinched a CCAA Championship return for the Tritons, as they held off reigning league champion Cal State Stanislaus for the sixth and final spot in this year's tourney. Kiera Bocchino opened the scoring in the 24th minute with a half-volley off a right-sided Cassie Callahan cross. She made it 2-0 just 36 seconds into the second half after taking a pass from Katie O'Laughlin. Bocchino and O'Laughlin then each picked up assists as Jordyn McNutt's goal ended any drama in the 51st minute. Junior goalkeepers Kelcie Brodsky (77:16, three saves) and Itzel Gonzalez (12:44) combined on a five straight shutout for UCSD. Callahan and fellow seniors Kylie Hill, Kiley Leshin, Izzy Pozurama and Michelle Yasutake were honored prior to kickoff.

POSTSEASON PICTURE
UCSD completed the 11-game CCAA season alone in sixth with a 3-0 home win on Thursday night. The Tritons compiled 20 points from a 6-3-2 league mark. View the final regular-season standings. UCSD began that day in control of its own postseason fate, one point clear of seventh-place reigining league champion Cal State Stanislaus. Though the Warriors posted a 2-0 home win of their own in a game that also started at 7 p.m., they could not get around the Tritons. When CSUS topped UCSD, 4-2, in La Jolla back on Oct. 10, it was 4-1 with 12 points, while the Tritons sat at just 1-3-1 and four points. From there, the Warriors suffered three straight 1-0 losses and went 2-3-1 down the stretch, while UCSD closed an undefeated 5-0-1 to vault over them.

POZURAMA CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Izzy Pozurama scored both UCSD goals last weekend that netted her side six giant points on the road, and Tuesday earned CCAA Player of the Week distinction. It was the first weekly award for a Triton in 2014, and the second selection of Pozurama's career. The fifth-year senior is tied with freshman Jordyn McNutt for the team lead with five goals, four of them game-winners. She has 19 goals for her career, with nine deciders.

LENGTHY BIT OF SHUTOUT SOCCER
UCSD did not allow a goal during its recently-concluded four-match road swing, over 380 minutes, and also blanked Cal State Dominguez Hills at home in its regular-season finale on Thursday night. Going back to the first half of the Tritons' 5-1 home victory over Cal State East Bay on Oct. 10, they have not allowed an opponent to score in 549:13. This marks the longest shutout stretch of junior goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky's career, and the longest for UCSD since a run of 575:26 during the national runner-up 2010 campaign.

TALK ABOUT A STRETCH RUN
Following a 4-2 home loss to then-seventh-ranked reigning league champion Cal State Stanislaus on Oct. 10, UCSD stared at a 1-3-1 CCAA mark just before the midway point of the conference schedule. With their backs against the wall the entire time, the Tritons put together an incredible and somewhat improbable stretch run to put itself back in the postseason. Since the Tritons trailed Stanislaus 3-0 at halftime, they have outscored opponents 13-2 and gone an unbeaten 5-0-1 following that defeat to the Warriors.

CALLAHAN CONTINUES TO LEAD IN FINAL COLLEGE CAMPAIGN
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 three more to give her 23 for her career, with no fewer than 11 of those strikes, including two this season, coming off of headers. Callahan's most important strikes in 2014 have been her 80th-minute volley to hand No. 8 Cal State San Bernardino its first loss on Oct. 3 in La Jolla, and most recently, an 84th-minute penalty kick in another 1-0 triumph at Cal State Monterey Bay on Oct. 17. 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 third on UCSD's goal chart. Callahan and fellow senior Izzy 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 a big impression in her first year of college soccer. From her position as a wing midfielder, she paces UCSD with five goals (tied), seven assists and 17 points. Her assist total ties her for first 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 16 of 17 matches with 15 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.

BRODSKY LEADS CCAA IN SAVES
Junior Triton goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky continues to lead the CCAA in saves, now with 78. Her 13 stops 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 17 matches in 2014. She is third in the CCAA in save percentage (.830) and seventh with five individual shutouts.

TRITON NOTES
The Tritons have employed the same starting lineup the last nine games, since a 1-0 home loss to CPP (9/28), going 6-1-2 during the stretch ... UCSD moved into the NCAA's official West Region poll in the 10th position Wednesday in its second installment, with the top six in the final edition making the NCAA Championship field ... 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, Izzy Pozurama and Michelle Yasutake ... Opposite those five 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 midfielder Meghan 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 450-78-50, he has achieved the most wins (tied with 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. They have earned a return trip to that event this year.

ABOUT THE BRONCOS
Cal Poly Pomona is 12-4-1 overall. They finished 7-3-1 in the CCAA and placed third to notch the No. 3 seed and a home first-round game to open the CCAA Championship. The Broncos, who are 7-2-1 at Kellogg Field this season, rallied from a 2-0 deficit with two late goals in regulation to earn a 2-2 double-overtime draw with fifth-ranked regular-season champion Cal State L.A. on their Senior Night on Thursday. Those goals came from Edith Dominguez at 85:59 on a free kick and Ali Sauve at 88:58. Mike Dibbini is in his second season in charge of the Broncos.

SERIES HISTORY
UCSD leads the all-time series, 33-11-4. The Tritons dropped the regular-season match-up, 1-0, in La Jolla back on Sept. 28, on an unassisted Daisy Duran goal just 2:35 into the contest. They had swept the season series in each of the previous four years before the teams played to a 2-2 draw in the initial 2013 meeting in La Jolla. A first-half opener by Jamie Benedetto and 70th-minute equalizer by Cassie Callahan were sandwiched around Bronco scores. The return date last year in Pomona went in favor of the Tritons, 1-0, on Michelle Yasutake's first college goal in the 81st minute.

NEW YEAR, NEW FORMAT IN CCAA
The CCAA 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 faced one another once for a total of 11 CCAA contests. The top six teams in the final standings have advanced 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 this Sunday. The venue for the 2014 CCAA Championship semifinals and final is 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
If UCSD wins on Sunday, the Tritons will travel to Turlock next week for the semifinals and final of the 2014 CCAA Championship. They would face No. 2 seed Chico State in the first semifinal at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 7, at Warrior Stadium on the campus of Cal State Stanislaus.

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