Non-Revenue Sports Bruin Review and Calendar
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Sep 28, 2009 12:14 AM PDT
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Photo Credit: Bruin805. Check out the rest of his pics of the Spieker Aquatics Center in this thread.
Men's Water Polo
There's no better way to open a new facility than with a win and that's exactly what #2 UCLA did by dispatching #7 UC Irvine, 10-4, in the first official match at the Spieker Aquatics Center. Three different Bruins has two goals in the game and Chay Lapin made eight saves as the Bruins improved to 9-1, their sole loss against the #1 Stanford team that they will play at 10:30 am on Saturday. The match is in Palo Alto so if you're going up for the football game, get there early and check out some water polo first. Stanford's aquatics center is not far at all from the football stadium. The Bruins will also play #10 Santa Clara on Sunday.
Women's Soccer
A six game win streak is often accompanied by a move up the rankings and that's what happened as the Bruins jumped to #3 last week. The girls then won two more matches last week to extend their streak to eight games. It's been the same faces scoring for the Bruins, but I don't think they will complain. In their first win of the week, Kristina Larsen scored her seventh goal of the year and Lauren Cheney her fifth to top Cal St. Northridge, 2-0. The Bruins' second game of the week was a 3-1 win over UC Santa Barbara as Sydney Leroux notched her ninth and tenth goals of the year, which leads the team. This week, the Bruins (8-1-1) will conclude non-conference action when they head up PCH to take on Pepperdine.
Men's Soccer
The #10 Bruins got off to an uninspired start versus UNLV at Drake Stadium, but a pair of goals by Kyle Nakazawa highlighted a strong second half that lifted the Bruins to a 3-0 victory. Nakazawa's two goals give s him four on the year to lead the team and Chandler Hoffman, the freshman who scored the Bruins' third, sits in second on the team with three. Now 5-1, UCLA will commence Pac-10 play with trips to Oregon St. and Washington this weekend.
Women's Volleyball
So who are these girls? Are they a national title contender or a pretender? I think it depends on the day. The #14 Bruins got off to an ominous start to conference play as they were swept by Arizona St. for the first time in 14 years by a score of 25-16, 25-22 and 25-22. Following the bus ride from Tempe to Tucson though, the Bruins defeated #19 Arizona in four sets after losing the opening frame. This Bruin squad, which defeated #6 Nebraska earlier in the year to end the Cornhuskers' 90 match home win streak, but only 11-4 overall and 1-1 in Pac-10 play returns home this week for matches versus #10 Stanford and #12 Cal.
Women's Golf
#3 UCLA found themselves in second-place after two rounds of the Mason Rudolph Invitational, hosted by Vanderbilt. Then the rains came and wiped out the rest of the tournament as the Bruins were forced to settle for second, behind #2 USC. Individually, Sydnee Michaels led the Bruins with a second place finish at -9 thanks to a second round of -7, which was the best of the day and her best collegiate round. The Bruins are off until October 16 when they head to Palo Alto.
Women's Tennis
This weekend will be the ITA All-American Qualifying for the women.
Cross Country
Friday is the Notre Dame Invitational, where both the men's and women's teams will be in action.
Calendar (all times pacific)
Friday, October 2
Men's and Women's Cross Country, Notre Dame Invitational, 2:00 pm- South Bend, IN
Women's Soccer at Pepperdine, 3:00 pm- Malibu, CA
Women's Volleyball vs. Stanford, 7:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion
Men's Soccer at Oregon St., 7:00 pm- Corvallis, OR
Women's Tennis, ITA All-American Qualifying, All Day- Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, October 3
Men's Water Polo at Stanford, 10:30 am- Palo Alto, CA
Women's Volleyball vs. Cal, 7:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion
Women's Tennis, ITA All-American Qualifying, All Day- Los Angeles, CA
Sunday, October 4
Men's Water Polo at Santa Clara, 11:00 am- Santa Clara, CA
Men's Soccer at Washington, 2:00 pm- Seattle, WA
Women's Tennis, ITA All-American Qualifying, All Day- Los Angeles, CA
Ticket information for all sports can be found here while facility information and directions for all sports can be found here. GO BRUINS!!!
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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Tough to focus
Tough to really care about these sports right now while we are just beginning the heart of football season.
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You might not care
But there are many of us here on BN who do care about our school’s sports teams. Thanks for stopping by and perhaps you can do somewhere else whatever that is you want to focus on.
And what is that “we” you are talking about. Given your history on SBN … clearly it has nothing to do with Bruins.
News for You!
The UCLA Men’s Soccer program has a few more National Championship Plaques being displayed in the Morgan Center than UCLA Football.
It would be great to see some more student and fan support this year and in the future so programs making serious inroads into the UCLA recruiting pool such as Cal Poly and UCSB aren’t given a strong competitive advantage in recruiting.
More fan support surely would help mitigate being at the butt of the Big West conference jokes where our anemic attendance figures that are all too common at Drake Stadium are being used as a recruiting pitch against us.
Just a thought.
I could not agree more
The support we as a fan base give our non-revenue sports is embarrassing in comparison to other programs despite our teams having far more success. I’ve heard of the meager support being used as against us in recruiting before and since I don’t see the Morgan Center doing much to change the programs’ support or any natural change in our attitudes, it will likely continue to be used against us. Soccer is just one of many UCLA sports under-supported.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Sep 28, 2009 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it was meant for EricFeld
as in, “Eric Feld like an idiot after posting a stupid comment on BN”.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Bad news for the women's soccer team
Redshirt Senior Kara Lang tore her ACL in the win over Northridge. Looks like a sad end for her UCLA career.
Really tough news
I’d been hearing some really good things about her play this year so it’s a tough break and since she already used her redshirt, this will end her career. She’s still a top notch player though and should have an outstanding career for the Canadian National Team and in WPS. Best of luck to her.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Sep 29, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Is Nakazawa finally starting to perform to expectations?
I’m too far away to go to games, but Nakazawa was suppose to be a player who big things were expected from the last few seasons and at least from the stats side of things never lived up to it. Good to see him performing well and starting to score some goals.
He's looking better than he ever has
He appears to be in the best shape he’s been in since arriving in Westwood and he’s a much more cerebral player. He’s timing his runs better and is working more diagonal, which is freeing him up. His finishing is improved, but it can still be better. I really like what I’ve seen from him thus far though.
Another note, we’re up to #5 in the NSCAA poll.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Sep 29, 2009 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
He was all over the field
when I saw him at Georgetown. Really stood out and was playing with fire and passion.
That Georgetown loss
that we thought was so bad, may not be. At last check, they were #14 in the Soccer America poll so while I wasn’t there and cannot offer any in-depth analysis, on paper the loss doesn’t look so bad.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Sep 29, 2009 6:57 PM PDT up reply actions
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