Non-Revenue Sports Bruin Review and Calendar

by Ryan Rosenblatt on Oct 16, 2007 4:31 AM PDT Comment 5 comments

Bumped from the diaries. GO BRUINS. -N

Let's start at the top where our #1 ranked women's soccer team beat Oregon St. 1-0 Friday night when Christina DeMartino scored in the 82nd minute. Then, the Bruins took care of Oregon in impressive fashion 3-0 Sunday to assure they maintain their #1 ranking for another week. They will take on Stanford and Cal this weekened in the Bay Area, hoping to remain undefeated in Pac 10 play.

Meanwhile, the #12 men put on a strong showing this weekend, first getting a 0-0 draw on Friday night versus a good Stanford squad. Then, they beat #16 Cal 1-0 on a goal by Maxwell Griffin in the 87th minute. The win leaves the Bruins overall record (5-5-2) and conference record (1-1-1) at an even .500. The Bruins will head north this weekend to play Oregon St. Friday night and Washington Sunday as they hope to get above .500 for the first time this season.

The #4 men's water polo team got stuck in a few tight battles against the nation's best this weekend and came out decently. First, they beat Pacific and #3 Cal to get to the SoCal tournament semifinals where they lost a tight match in overtime to #1 USC 7-6. Then in a consolation match, the Bruins fell to the same Cal team they defeated earlier 8-7. This week,

The #7 women's volleyball team took on Oregon Friday night and Pauley Pavilion and won in 4 games, 31-29, 22-30, 30-24, 36-34. Then, the Bruins were stunned by Oregon St. as the Beavers took down the Bruins in 5 tough games, 29, 16-30, 30-27, 17-30, 15-13. UCLA will not finish off the first half of their conference schedule this weekend at the Washington schools this Thursday and Friday.

This weekend, both the men's and women's golf teams will get to work. The #1 ranked women will play at the Stanford/Pepsi Invitational, while the #2 men are in Evanston, Illinois for the Pac 10/Big Ten Challenge.

In cross country, both the men and women Bruin teams were in Terre Haute, Indiana. The #19 men, finished a very impressive eighth at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational while the women finished a disappointing 25th out of 35 teams. Both the men and women will go to Fullerton this weekend for the Fullerton Invitational.

The women's swim team had another, expected easy victory as they went to UCSB and dominated 160-102. Meanwhile the women rowers finished 3rd in Oklahoma City at the Head of Oklahoma. The rower's have the week off.

Calendar:
Thursday, October 18th:
-Women's Volleyball at Washington, 7 pm PST- Seattle, Washington
Friday, October 19th:
-Women's Volleyball at Washington St., 7 pm PST- Pullman, Washington
-Women's Soccer at Stanford, 7:30 pm PST- Palo Alto, California
-Men's Soccer at Oregon St., 7:30 pm PST- Corvallis, Oregon
-Women's Golf, Stanford/Pepsi Invitational, All Day- Palo Alto, California
-Men's and Women's Cross Country, Fullerton Invitational, TBA- Fullerton, California
Saturday, October 20th:
-Men's Water Polo versus Cal, 10 am PST- Rose Bowl Aquatic Center
-Women's Golf, Stanford/Pepsi Invitational, All Day- Palo Alto, California
Sunday, October 21st:
-Women's Soccer at Cal, 1 pm PST- Berkeley, California
-Men's Soccer at Washington, 1 pm PST- Seattle, Washington
-Men's Water Polo versus Pacific, 1 pm PST- Sunset Rec Center
-Women's Golf, Stanford/Pepsi Invitational, All Day- Palo Alto, California
-Men's Golf, Pac 10/Big Ten Challenge, All Day- Evanston, Illinois
Monday, October 22nd:
-Men's Golf, Pac 10/Big Ten Challenge, All Day- Evanston, Illinois

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This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of BruinsNation's (BN) editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of BN's editors.

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4 games over the weekend

I went to the soccer games on Friday and the Men's game on Sunday. I intended to write a post summing up the games, my own match report (even taking notes on the Friday games), but obviously that didn't happen. Anyway, I'll still judge the Men, after watching them for a third time:

I wasn't too impressed with the Men's team in either game - they seem to lack a cutting edge in terms of actually scoring. Constantly, they seem to get the ball in good position (I'd say they had more chances in both games, even if they had fewer shots than the other teams), only to do nothing with it. It really annoys me when yet another cross goes straight to the goalkeeper, as it passes only a couple yards in front of the goal line, along the ground, or when there's no one to pick up the loose ball just outside the area after a corner or free kick. They seem to constantly throw too many people too far forwards - someone needs to stay back in the open space you create by bombing forward. That's how the Women scored on Friday - instead of standing inside the six-yard box, DeMartino was waiting in about mid-penalty area, completely open. If only the men were watching. Maybe I'm just frustrated after seeing 197 goal-less minutes. And when they finally did score, Griffin appeared to be almost offsides on the through ball that led to his shot off a rebound. I wouldn't say I'm an expert, but surely that's being involved in the play...

I also went to the Oregon volleyball game. Fun, but I don't know much about the sport. Kevin Love was there, though, and seemed to be teaching Stanback(? - that's a pure guess, cause I only saw his back) what was going on.

Can't go to anything this week though, except for the water polo at Sunset Rec (and maybe at the Rose Bowl if the bus arrives early enough).

by jaffa on Oct 15, 2007 7:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Your summary of the men

sounds like a classic Salcedo team. Lot's of talent and great in the midfield, but lacking the final touch.

by Ryan Rosenblatt on Oct 15, 2007 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd only been to one game before this year

so I don't know much about the team's usual tendencies. The games that I've seen in the last couple weeks have kinda annoyed me, though. The problems seem like they should be easy enough to fix - tell the wingers to not run so deep, and have at least one of the forwars sit back a little bit on crosses, giving an extra option to the man on the ball. That being said, they do manage to get deep very easily (especially down the right - I think Myers and Nakazawa), and they can produce some good chances (the through ball that led to Griffin's goal was very nice, even of he may have been offsides). The team just doesn't seem to take its chances, and takes far fewer shots than it could. With the quality of goalkeepers, maybe they should just take a whack at the net more often.

by jaffa on Oct 16, 2007 1:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

OT

Do you like Jaffa cakes?

by SuperBruinMan on Oct 15, 2007 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sigh...

It's great to see the women's rowing team doing well. Their varsity program got cut the same year ours did, in 1992, thanks to Pete Ball Licker Dalis. But then they got reinstated...and hopefully one day, the men's rowing team will be as well.

by tasser10 on Oct 17, 2007 11:37 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs