DAVIS, Calif. — A quick look around UC Davis athletics for the week of Oct. 11-17. Information is subject to change and links to follow along with the various events will be linked here as well as the sports' respective schedule pages at UCDavisAggies.com when available.
MEN'S GOLF
OCT. 11-12: UC DAVIS AT WOLF PACK CLASSIC (HIDDEN VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB - RENO, NEV.)
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NEWS & NOTABLES: The final tournament of the fall sends the Aggies up the hill to Reno, Nev., to compete against the field at the Wolf Pack Classic hosted by the University of Nevada at the Hidden Valley Country Club. UC Davis returns to the course following a two-week break and a 14th-place finish at the Windon Memorial Classic in Illinois back on Sept. 28. Senior
Thomas Hutchison was named the Big West Conference Golfer of the Month for September — his third career award — following a pair of top-three finishes in the Aggies' first two tournaments of the fall. Sophomore
Jacob Westberg led the Aggies at the Windon, finishing in a tie for 38th.
MEN'S TENNIS
OCT. 13-17: UC DAVIS AT ITA NORTHWEST REGIONAL (TIMOTHY KORTH TENNIS COMPLEX - MORAGA, CALIF.)
NEWS & NOTABLES: The third tournament of the fall takes the Aggies to Moraga, Calif., to compete at the ITA Northwest Regional hosted by Saint Mary's beginning Wednesday and running through the weekend. The Aggies wrapped up last weekend up the hill in Reno, Nev., at the Wolf Pack Classic, taking on opponents from Nevada and Air Force, with the doubles tandem of junior
Andrei Volgin and freshman
Ryan Morgan finishing with a 3-0 mark, while junior
Mitchell Davis and freshman
Ryan Torres posting a 2-1 record. In singles play, Morgan and junior
Brett Brinkman finished a perfect 3-0 on the weekend, while junior
Andras Necz also finishing with three wins during the event.
MEN'S SOCCER
OCT. 13: UC DAVIS AT UC IRVINE (ANTEATER STADIUM - IRVINE, CALIF.), 7 p.m.
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OCT. 17: CSUN AT UC DAVIS (AGGIE SOCCER FIELD), 1 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis makes a quick return trip to Orange County to start the week, traveling to UC Irvine for a mid-week Wednesday battle, before coming home to host CSUN on Sunday afternoon. The Aggies are fresh off a split of Big West Conference contests for the second straight week, winning a thriller on their home field over UC Riverside before suffering a 1-0 defeat on the road at Cal State Fullerton as the Titans were awarded and converted a penalty with just 67 seconds remaining in regulation.
Grant Fidler and
Andy Velasquez scored goals in the win over the Highlanders, while UC Davis battled to its seventh one-goal decision of the year against Fullerton, suffering its third 1-0 loss of the year. Opponents have been awarded a total of six penalties against the Aggies this year — the most since 2015 when opponents attempted eight penalties.
MEN'S WATER POLO
OCT. 14: UC DAVIS AT SANTA CLARA (SULLIVAN AQUATIC CENTER - SANTA CLARA, CALIF.), 2 p.m.
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OCT. 16: UC DAVIS AT FRESNO PACIFIC (SUNNYSIDE AQUATICS CENTER - FRESNO, CALIF.), Noon
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OCT. 17: UC DAVIS AT STANFORD (AVERY AQUATIC CENTER - STANFORD, CALIF.), 1 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: It's a busy week for the Aggies, who travel to conference rivals Santa Clara and Fresno Pacific before taking on national power Stanford in a three-match week. The offense got the UC Davis men's water polo team off to an unbeaten start in Western Water Polo Association play last week, powering the Aggies to a 17-9 victory over No. 19 California Baptist in their conference opener before exploding for a 21-5 victory over Concordia. Freshman
Hal Goulter led the avalanche of goals for UC Davis, scoring seven times and adding a pair of assists in the two wins, while
Nir Gross (six) and
Ben Fleming (five) helped pave the way to victory. The 21 goals scored in the win over the Eagles marked the second-highest total for the Aggies this year, trailing only the school-record 26 scores against Mount St. Mary's back in the second match of the season, while the two wins gave UC Davis wins in each of its last nine WWPA contests and 34 of its last 35 league matches.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
OCT. 14: LONG BEACH STATE AT UC DAVIS (AGGIE SOCCER FIELD), 4 p.m.
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OCT. 17: UC DAVIS AT UC IRVINE (ANTEATER STADIUM - IRVINE, CALIF.), 5 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: The UC Davis women's soccer team looks to bounce back from a winless trip to Southern California last week, hosting Long Beach State on Thursday afternoon before making its final roadtrip of the year, returning to Orange County to take on UC Irvine on Sunday. The Aggies fell at Cal State Fullerton (3-0) and UC Riverside (2-1) last week with sophomore
Leslie Fregoso netting her fifth goal of the season off an assist by
Alana Curtis (her fourth) against the Highlanders. Fregoso now leads the team with 16 points on five goals and six assists — the most points by an Aggie since Ashley Edwards finished the 2012 campaign with the same number of points on seven goals and two assists — while her six helpers are the most by an Aggie in the Division I era and the most since Carly Broaddus finished with six in 2002.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
OCT. 14: CSUN AT UC DAVIS (UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION CENTER), 5 p.m.
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OCT. 16: UC SANTA BARBARA AT UC DAVIS (UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION CENTER), Noon
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis closes out a four-match homestand with two more Big West Conference contests this week, hosting CSUN on Thursday at 5 p.m., before welcoming UC Santa Barbara to Northern California for a Saturday matinee. The Aggies will be looking to snap a season-long five-match losing skid following losses to CSU Bakersfield and Cal Poly last week, with their last win coming in their conference opener at UC Riverside back on Sept. 21. Junior
Josephine Ough paced the offense in the two matches last week, averaging 3.00 kills per set and hitting .378 on the week against the Roadrunners and Mustangs, while collecting a team-high seven blocks.
WOMEN'S GOLF
OCT. 15-17: UC DAVIS AT STANFORD INTERCOLLEGIATE (STANFORD GC - STANFORD, CALIF.)
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NEWS & NOTABLES: The final tournament of the fall sends the Aggies to the Bay Area this week, joining the field at the three-day Stanford Intercollegiate. It's somewhat of a quick turnaround for UC Davis, which wrapped up the Ron Moore Women's Intercollegiate in 14th place on Sunday, with freshman
Naomi Danner shooting a collegiate-best final round of 70 to finish at 2-under for the day and tied for 44th in the tournament. Danner's 6-over 222 tournament total was also a collegiate best, standing five shots better than her three-round total at the season-opening Badger Invitational, as the Sunnyvale, Calif., native birdied four of her final six holes en route to her career-best day.
CROSS COUNTRY
OCT. 15: UC DAVIS AT NCAA PRE-NATIONALS (APALACHEE REGIONAL PARK - TALLAHASSEE, FLA.), 9 a.m.
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OCT. 16: UC DAVIS AT SANTA CLARA BRONCO INVITATIONAL (SUNNYVALE, CALIF.), 8 a.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis splits its squad for a pair of meets this weekend, sending squads to compete at both the NCAA Pre-Nationals hosted by Florida State in Tallahassee and the Bronco Invitational hosted by Santa Clara in Sunnyvale, Calif. The Aggies haven't competed since Oct. 1 at the Pacific Collegiate Invitational where
Chloe Arriaga's second-place finish paced the women to a second-place team finish (trailing Saint Mary's by only five points), while
Ivan Mendez finished fifth overall to help the men's squad finish third overall behind San Francisco State and Saint Mary's.
SWIMMING & DIVING
OCT. 16: PEPPERDINE AT UC DAVIS (SCHAAL AQUATICS CENTER), 10 a.m.
NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis officially opens the
Matt Macedo era on Saturday morning, welcoming Pepperdine to Schaal Aquatics Center for the 2021-22 season opener at 10 a.m. Macedo was named head coach of the program back in May, taking over for long-time head coach
Barbara Jahn, who retired after 46 years at the helm of the Aggie program in the spring. Led by team captains
Amanda Wilson and
Rachel Pride, UC Davis also returns junior
Dani Fasan, who won two individual events (50 breast, 100 free) and was a member of the winning 200 medley and 200 free relays, and junior
Julie Kwan, who won twice (150 back and 300 IM), at the team's annual Blue-Gold Intrasquad meet on Oct. 2. Senior diving captain
Taylor Hornberger and junior
Sydney Wren lead the way for UC Davis on the boards, with Wren winning the 1-meter event and Hornberger winning on the 3-meter board at the Blue-Gold meet.
FOOTBALL
OCT. 16: NORTHERN COLORADO AT UC DAVIS (UC DAVIS HEALTH STADIUM), 5 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis looks to bounce back from its first loss of the season this weekend in front of a "Homecoming" crowd at UC Davis Health Stadium, welcoming Northern Colorado to Northern California for a 5 p.m. kick-off. The Aggies fell on the road, 27-17, to host Idaho State last week on a milestone day for junior running back Ulonzo Gilliam, Jr., who became only the third running back in school history to eclipse 3,000 career rushing yards on a 14-yard scamper in the first quarter, joining G.P. Muhammad (3,589) and Preston Jackson (3,325), and enters this week's contest with 3,056 career yards following an 18-carry, 100-yard performance against the Bengals — his 12th career 100-yard rushing performance. UC Davis is a combined 7-3 all time against Northern Colorado — including a 4-2 mark as a Division I program and 3-2 all time at home in the series — having won the last two meetings with the Bears: a 34-21 victory at home in 2016 and a 49-36 triumph on the road in 2018. In the last meeting, quarterback Jake Maier throwing for 380 yards and four touchdowns while Keelan Doss reeled 150 of those yards on 11 catches. The Aggies led 49-10 with 9:15 remaining in the fourth before Northern Colorado scored the final 26 points of the game in a seven-minute span to make it interesting.
FIELD HOCKEY
OCT. 17: CALIFORNIA AT UC DAVIS (AGGIE FIELD HOCKEY FACILITY), 1 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis begins its final home stand of the year on Sunday afternoon, welcoming Bay Area rival California to the Aggie Field Hockey Facility for its penultimate home match of the season. The Aggies are looking to bounce back from an East Coast trip that saw them fall against a pair of America East Conference opponents in Vermont (4-0) and No. 25 Maine (6-0), searching for their first victory since a 4-3 overtime triumph at New Hampshire on Sept. 26.
Madison Theodore continues to lead the team offensively, scoring five goals and tallying three assists on the year for 13 points, leading the team in all three categories.
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