THE SCHEDULE
Match 15
at No. 15 Sonoma State (13-2, 6-2 CCAA)
Friday, Oct. 24 • 12:30 p.m.
Seawolf Soccer Field • Rohnert Park
Live Video • Live Stats

Match 16
at Humboldt State (6-8, 1-7 CCAA)
Sunday, Oct. 26 • 11:30 a.m.
College Creek Field • Arcata
Live Video • Live Stats

TRITONS ROUND OUT ROAD SWING NEEDING WINS
The UC San Diego women's soccer team concludes a season-long four-match road stretch in California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) play this weekend. The Tritons (6-5-3, 3-3-2 CCAA) sit one point back of a CCAA Championship spot with three matches remaining in the regular season. They play at 15th-ranked Sonoma State this Friday, Oct. 24, at 12:30 p.m., and then at last-place Humboldt State on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 11:30 a.m. Both games will have live streaming video and live stats. UCSD is 3-2-2 away from home in 2014.

A LOOK BACK AT LAST WEEK
UCSD posted back-to-back shutouts for the first time in 2014 on the road last weekend. The Tritons first produced a critical 1-0 win on Friday, Oct. 17, at Cal State Monterey Bay, as Cassie Callahan (Coronado/Coronado HS) converted on a penalty kick in the 84th minute. The result enabled them to vault over the Otters in the CCAA standings and into seventh. UCSD then had to settle for a scoreless draw at SF State two days later. Kelcie Brodsky made six and four saves, respectively, to pick up the pair of individual clean sheets.

POSTSEASON PICTURE
UCSD heads into the final three matches of the regular season alone in seventh in the 12-team league standings, one point out of a top-six CCAA Championship spot. With 11 points, they are right behind reigning CCAA champion Cal State Stanislaus, which is stuck on 12 points after three successive defeats, all by an identical 1-0 scoreline, since a 4-2 win over the Tritons in La Jolla. The Warriors thus hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over UCSD. Of this weekend's road opponents, Sonoma State is in second with 18 points, and Humboldt State is last with three. Follow all the action from around the CCAA through the live scoreboard.

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 tied with Jordyn McNutt atop 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 four goals (tied), 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 13 of 14 matches with 12 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 65. 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 14 matches in 2014.

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 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 447-78-50, he has achieved the second-most wins (two 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 SEAWOLVES
No. 15 Sonoma State is 13-2 overall and 6-2 in the CCAA. The Seawolves sit alone in second place in the league standings, six points behind leader Cal State L.A. They are a perfect 7-0 at home in 2014, outscoring opponents, 20-3. Sonoma State is coming off of a road split last weekend, winning 1-0 at Cal State Dominguez Hills on a 65th-minute Alex Sifuentes goal on Sunday after dropping a 2-0 decision at then-16th-ranked Cal State L.A. on Friday. Emiria Salzmann Dunn, the 2012 CCAA Coach of the Year, is in her fourth year in charge at Sonoma State.

SERIES HISTORY
UCSD leads the all-time series, 15-1-3. The Tritons' lone loss to the Seawolves came in the most recent meeting between the sides, a 3-2 victory for Sonoma State in La Jolla on Sept. 29, 2013. Margi Osmundson tallied the 86th-minute winner in that one. The last match-up in Rohnert Park ended in a scoreless draw in early October of 2012.

ABOUT THE LUMBERJACKS
Humboldt State is 6-8 overall and 1-7 in the CCAA heading into a home date with Cal Poly Pomona on Friday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. The Jacks have dropped seven straight contests following a 6-1 start to the campaign that included a 3-2 home win over Cal State East Bay in their CCAA opener. The last six losses have all come in shutout fashion, with Humboldt entering the weekend on a lengthy scoreless stretch of 583:49. Paul Karver is in his second season in charge of the Jacks, who are 2-3 in Arcata in 2014.

SERIES HISTORY
UCSD leads the all-time series, 10-1-2. The latest meeting finished 0-0 in La Jolla on Sept. 27, 2013. On the Tritons' previous visit to Arcata, they posted a comfortable 4-1 victory in a contest that did not count toward league play in 2012. HSU's lone success in the series was a 2-1 decision in Arcata back in 2010.

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 returns home to wrap up the 2014 regular season next Thursday, Oct. 30. Kickoff at Triton Soccer Stadium against Cal State Dominguez Hills on Senior Night is slated for approximately 7 p.m.

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