DAVIS, Calif. — A quick look around UC Davis athletics for the week of Oct. 4-10. 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 SOCCER
OCT. 6: UC RIVERSIDE AT UC DAVIS (AGGIE SOCCER FIELD), 3 p.m.
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OCT. 9: UC DAVIS AT CAL STATE FULLERTON (TITAN STADIUM - FULLERTON, CALIF.), 7 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: The Aggies split their attention between sites in Big West Conference play this week, playing host to UC Riverside on Wednesday at 3 p.m., before hitting the road to take on Cal State Fullerton in Orange County on Saturday. UC Davis' winning streak grew to five last week with a 1-0 road victory at UC San Diego to open league play with
Maximilian Arfsten recording his seventh goal of the year, but the run came to an end three days later as UC Santa Barbara won the match up of preseason conference favorites, 4-1, in Davis. Arfsten leads the team with 17 points, which stand as the most by an Aggie since Noah Wilson finished the 2016 campaign with the same number on seven goals and three assists.
Andy Velasquez added his third goal of the year against the Gauchos just four minutes into the match, while
Grant Fidler and
Max Glasser tallied assists on the score — both recording their team-high fourth helpers of the year.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
OCT. 7: CSU BAKERSFIELD AT UC DAVIS (UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION CENTER), 6 p.m.
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OCT. 9: CAL POLY AT UC DAVIS (UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION CENTER), 3 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: After winning their Big West Conference opener, the Aggies look to snap a three-match skid in league play this week, hosting league newcomer CSU Bakersfield on Thursday and powerhouse Cal Poly, which has lost only five league matches in the last four years and is 69-15 in Big West play since 2015, on Saturday. UC Davis dropped a pair of four-set contests in Southern California last week, falling at UC Irvine and UC San Diego. Freshman
Amara Aimufua and junior
Josephine Ough led the offense, averaging 3.5 kills per set in the two matches, while Ough hit .379 with nine blocks. Aimufua notched her fourth and fifth double-digit kill performances in her last six matches, bringing her total to nine such matches this season. Sophomore
Lana Radakovic added a career-high 17 kills at UC Irvine, while freshman
Casi Newman guided the offense to the tune of a career-high 51 assists against the Anteaters, completing her first career double-double with 12 digs.
MEN'S WATER POLO
OCT. 7: UC DAVIS AT CALIFORNIA BAPTIST (LANCER AQUATICS CENTER - RIVERSIDE, CALIF.), 6 p.m.
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OCT. 8: UC DAVIS AT CONCORDIA (WOOLLETT AQUATICS CENTER - IRVINE, CALIF.), 1:30 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: Following a week off, the UC Davis men's water polo dives right back into competition this week with the start of Western Water Polo Association play on the road, heading to Southern California to take on reigning league champion California Baptist under the lights in Riverside on Thursday at 7 p.m., before taking on Concordia University in Irvine a day later at 1:30 p.m. The Lancers claimed their first conference crown in 2020-21 during an abbreviated spring season and faced UCLA in the first round of the NCAA Championships just a few short months ago. UC Davis, which claimed its fifth WWPA title following the last full season of competition in 2019, enters the start of league play having posted a commanding 41-3 record in conference matches under the direction of Child and Meisel Families Director of Men's Water Polo
Daniel Leyson, including wins in 32 of its last 33 matches and undefeated records in 2013 (5-0), 2015 (6-0), 2016 (6-0), 2017 (7-0), and 2019 (7-0).
WOMEN'S SOCCER
OCT. 7: UC DAVIS AT CAL STATE FULLERTON (TITAN STADIUM - FULLERTON, CALIF.) 7 p.m.
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OCT. 10: UC DAVIS AT UC RIVERSIDE (UCR SOCCER STADIUM - RIVERSIDE, CALIF.) 7 p.m.
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NEWS & NOTABLES: Sitting in a tie for second place in the Big West standings, the UC Davis women's soccer team enters the midway point of the conference schedule at 3-1 in league play, traveling to Southern California to take on Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside this week. After suffering their first league defeat of the 2021 campaign in overtime to UC Santa Barbara last week, the Aggies bounced back in a big way against previously unbeaten Cal Poly, shutting out the Mustangs 2-0 behind a pair of
Risa Yamada goals to move to 8-4 overall — leading the Big West in overall victories and standing just one point behind league-leader Long Beach State in the standings. Yamada's brace against Cal Poly was her second in her last three contests, giving her a team-high five goals and 13 points overall, which stand second on the team.
Leslie Fregoso tallied an assist on both of her teammate's scores, leading the team with six helpers and 14 points overall in 2021 — the most by an Aggie since Ashley Edwards had 16 in 2012 and the first time UC Davis has had two players with 10-or-more points in a single season since Edwards and Kiele Argente (11 points) did so that same year.
Emma Hasco also added an assist on Yamada's first goal, giving her three on the year. Senior goalkeeper
Nicki Rucki allowed just the one goal in nearly 187 combined minutes on the weekend, lowering her goals against average to 1.01 on the year and posting her fourth shutout of the year against Cal Poly.
WOMEN'S GOLF
OCT. 8-10: UC DAVIS AT RON MOORE WOMEN'S INTERCOLLEGIATE (HIGHLANDS RANCH GC - HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLO.)
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NEWS & NOTABLES: A youthful Aggie squad enters its third tournament of the fall schedule this weekend in the "Centennial State," heading to Colorado to compete at the Ron Moore Women's Intercollegiate hosted by the University of Denver beginning Friday and running through Sunday at the Highlands Ranch Golf Club. A trio of freshmen have led the way for UC Davis to start the year as newcomer
Naomi Danner has been the Aggies' top finisher in each of the team's first two tournaments, ending the Badger Invitational in 32nd place before posting a tie for 60th at The Molly Collegiate Invitational. Freshman
Marina Mata, who finished in a tie for 33rd in Wisconsin, and classmate
Elle Rastvortseva, who finished in a tie for 59th at the Badger Invitational, have followed Danner in the standings in each of the first two events, with Danner and Mata each posting team-low rounds of 71 to start the year.
MEN'S TENNIS
OCT. 8-10: UC DAVIS AT WOLF PACK INVITATIONAL (MCARTHUR TENNIS CENTER - RENO, NEV.)
NEWS & NOTABLES: The second event of UC Davis' fall schedule takes the Aggies up Interstate 80 to compete at the Wolf Pack Invitational hosted by the University of Nevada in Reno this weekend, with play beginning Friday and running through Sunday. UC Davis officially opened its 2021-22 campaign with its own Aggie Invitational with
Mitchell Davis and
Cory Pham each taking home titles in their respective flights, while
Andrei Volgin advanced to the championship of his flight before falling. Volgin made it 2-for-2 in finals, joining Davis in one of the two doubles draws before falling in a tiebreaker, 9-8 (5), while
Coleton Hootman and
Andras Necz advanced to the championship match in the other draw, falling 8-6.
FIELD HOCKEY
OCT. 8: UC DAVIS AT VERMONT (MOULTON WINDER FIELD - BURLINGTON, VT.), 11 a.m. PDT
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OCT. 10: UC DAVIS AT MAINE (UMAINE FIELD HOCKEY COMPLEX - ORONO, MAINE), 10 a.m. PDT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: America East play continues with another East Coast trip for the Aggies, who take on Vermont and Maine this weekend as the second half of the year rolls on. UC Davis stands at 5-5 overall and 1-2 in conference play after a loss at Stanford in its only match last week as
Shea Gavin found the back of the cage against the Cardinal for her third goal of the year — which ranked tied for second on the team with
Lizzy Tedrow and trails only
Madison Theodore's five scores this season. It is the second-to-last road swing of the season for UC Davis, which returns home to host California and Stanford (the latter a non-conference contest) in back-to-back matches on Oct. 17 and 24, before heading to UAlbany and Monmouth to close out the regular season on Halloween weekend.
FOOTBALL
OCT. 9: UC DAVIS AT IDAHO STATE (HOLT ARENA - POCATELLO, IDAHO), Noon PDT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: Standing a 5-0 on the year and ranked as high as No. 7 in the STATS Perform FCS national poll, the streaking UC Davis football team continues its battles with the "Gem State" this weekend, facing its second-straight opponent from the state of Idaho with a Saturday clash at Idaho State at Noon PDT. The Aggies, who are also ranked No. 8 in the nation according to the FCS Coaches Poll and are one of 11 remaining FCS unbeatens, are off to their best start since the 2004 squad also began the year with five straight victories and the program's best by any UC Davis team in the last 20 years. Thanks to 14 fourth-quarter points, the Aggies rallied for a 27-20 come-from-behind victory over Idaho at home last weekend, as redshirt freshman quarterback Trent Tompkins hit a wide-open Jared Harrell for the tying touchdown with 14:08 left in the fourth before Carson Crawford found McCallan Castles for the go-ahead score with eight minutes to go. The UC Davis defense -- which has yet to allow a fourth-quarter point this year -- took it from there, forcing a punt from just inside Aggie territory on the Vandals next drive, Erron Duncan coming up with a block on a 34-yard field goal attempt with 4:14 remaining, then Devon King picking off Idaho quarterback Mike Beaudry with 45 seconds to play that, effectively, ended the game. Junior running back Ulonzo Gilliam, Jr., who finished with 61 yards in the win over Idaho, needs just 44 more yards to join G.P. Muhammad (3,589 yards from 1995-98) and Preston Jackson (3,325 yards from 1991-93) as the only student-athletes to rush for 3,000 yards in a UC Davis career. With 2,956 career yards, Gilliam, Jr., enters the week ranked fourth on the all-time rushing list, just 12 yards back of Ron Austin (1977-80) for third.
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