DAVIS, Calif. — A quick look around UC Davis athletics for the week of Sept. 6-12. 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
SEPT. 5-7: UC DAVIS AT MARQUETTE INTERCOLLEGIATE AT ERIN HILLS (ERIN, WISC. — ERIN HILLS GOLF COURSE)
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SEPT. 10-12: UC DAVIS AT GENE MIRANDA FALCON INVITATIONAL (USAFA, COLO. — EISENHOWER BLUE GOLF COURSE)
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NEWS & NOTABLES: After finishing Sunday's first round in a tie for 12th, the Aggies wrap-up play at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills with 18 holes on both Monday and Tuesday in Wisconsin.
Thomas Hutchison (-2) and
Jacob Westberg (-1) were both in the top 20 after round one, tied for 13th and tied for 20th, respectively. It's then a quick turnaround as the Aggies head to Colorado to take part in the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational hosted by the U.S. Air Force Academy on Sept. 10-12 to close out the week.
FIELD HOCKEY
SEPT. 7: UC DAVIS VS. SAINT LOUIS (BUCKEYE VARSITY FIELD - COLUMBUS, OHIO), 11 a.m. PT
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SEPT. 8: UC DAVIS AT OHIO (PRUITT FIELD - ATHENS, OHIO), 10 a.m. PT
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SEPT. 10: UC DAVIS AT BELLARMINE (UofL TRAGER STADIUM - LOUISVILLE, KY.), 10 a.m. PT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis hits the road for the first time in 2021, making trips to both Ohio State and Ohio for the first time in almost exactly five years. The Aggies will face Saint Louis, not Ohio State, at Buckeye Varsity Field for a neutral-site matchup on Tuesday. The team follows with a trip down Highway 33 to take on the Bobcats for a Wednesday tilt, then it wraps up the weekend against first-time opponent Bellarmine on the campus of Louisville on Friday. Senior MF
Madison Theodore put UC Davis on the board in Friday's home contest with Dartmouth but the Big Green forced overtime and won the penalty shootout. Sophomore
Lizzy Tedrow assisted on the goal for her first collegiate point. Junior GK
Kalli Wagnon has nine saves for the year and 81 in her brief career, looking to become the fifth player in school history to reach the century mark.
MEN'S & WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
SEPT. 10: UC DAVIS HOSTS STUMP INVITATIONAL (WILDHORSE GOLF COURSE), 8:45 a.m. PT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis' layoff from competition was extended by another week when Wednesday's Nevada Twilight Classic was canceled due to projections of poor air quality. As a result, the 2021 season opens with the second-annual Stump Invitational at Wildhorse Golf Course, located at 2323 Rockwell Drive on the northeast end of Davis. Please note that pets are NOT permitted on the course. The women's 6K race begins at 8:45 a.m. while the men's 8K is slated for 9:15 a.m. The course runs on holes 7, 8, 12 and 13 of the golf course. The Stump Invitational is named in memory of Sarah Sumpter, a two-time Big West runner-up and a 2012 track & field All-American who compiled an outstanding career despite a 2010 diagnosis of a brain tumor. She was inducted posthumously into the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020. The Aggies finished second (women) and fifth (men) at the 2019 Big West Conference Championships, with All-Big West performers
Eva Goodisson,
Chloe Arriaga and
Ryman Crone back in action two years later.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
SEPT. 10: UC DAVIS AT NORTHERN ARIZONA LUMBERJACK CLASSIC (ROLLE ACTIVITY CENTER - FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.)
11:30 a.m. PT - UC Davis at Northern Arizona:
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5:30 p.m. PT - Utah Valley vs. UC Davis:
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SEPT. 11: UC DAVIS AT NORTHERN ARIZONA LUMBERJACK CLASSIC (ROLLE ACTIVITY CENTER - FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.)
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NEWS & NOTABLES: The Aggies enter their third tournament of the season on a roll, having won their last three consecutive matches while claiming the title at their own Aggie Invitational last week thanks to wins over Nevada, San Francisco, and Santa Clara. Freshman
Olivia Utterback was named tournament MVP and teammates
Amara Aimufua and
Josephine Ough were all-tournament selections as UC Davis posted sweeps of the Wolf Pack and Dons before bouncing back from an opening set loss to take the next three against the Broncos. Aimufua is off to a strong start to her collegiate career, leading the team with 3.29 kills per set while hitting .257 on the year.
Demari Webb (2.45 kps, .255) and Utterback (2.43 kps, .274) give the Aggies numerous options, as does Ough who, along with averaging 1.78 kps, is hitting a scintillating .508 (32-1-61) while averaging 1.61 blocks per set (29 total).
MEN'S SOCCER
SEPT. 10: UC DAVIS AT SAN DIEGO STATE (SDSU SPORTS DECK - SAN DIEGO, Calif.), 7 p.m. PT
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SEPT. 12: UC DAVIS AT SAN DIEGO (TORERO STADIUM - SAN DIEGO, CALIF.), 1 p.m. PT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis heads to "America's Finest City" for a pair of matches this weekend, still in search of its first victory on the young 2021 campaign. Two of the Aggies' four defeats have come by a single-goal — including a double-overtime decision to the No. 9-ranked team in the country — this season. UC Davis is coming off its highest scoring output of the year in its last contest as
Andy Velasquez and
Tim Weidinger dented the back of the net on the road against San Jose State. It was the second of the year for Velasquez, while Weidinger collected his first score as an Aggie. UC Davis is 2-0 all time against San Diego State, but the two teams haven't met since a 2-1 Aggie victory in 2008, while San Diego leads the all-time series by a 3-1-2 count and is unbeaten in the last five meetings with UC Davis — the last coming in a 1-0 victory over the Aggies in 2019.
MEN'S WATER POLO
SEPT. 11: UC DAVIS AT SAN JOSE STATE (SRAC POOL - SAN JOSE, CALIF.), Noon PT
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SEPT. 11: UC DAVIS VS. CUESTA COLLEGE (ex.) (SRAC POOL - SAN JOSE, CALIF.), 2 p.m. PT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis showed little rust since last playing in the NCAA Tournament to close out the 2019 season, picking right up where it left off by posting a 4-0 record at the season-opening Navy Open in Annapolis, Md., over the weekend. The Aggies trounced Johns Hopkins (16-2) and Mount St. Mary's (26-7) — setting a school record for goals in a match in the latter — before posting a pair of wins over ranked opposition in No. 17 Bucknell (14-13 in overtime) and No. 19 Navy (19-8). Freshman
Aleix Aznar Beltran led all Aggie scorers with 16 goals to go with four assists and five steals, with 11 of those scores coming in the final two matches — including the game-tying goal with less than a minute to go in regulation and the go-ahead score in overtime against the Bison — while classmate
Hal Goulter (14 goals, eight steals) and senior
Nir Gross (10 goals, four assists, six steals) also finished with double-digit goals on the weekend. In net,
Duncan Creed and
Aaron Wilson split time in the cage in Maryland, with Wilson posting 22 stops in 64 minutes (7.33 saves per match) for a .629 save percentage, while Creed made 13 saves and had five steals in 70 minutes of action — including every minute of the overtime win over Bucknell.
FOOTBALL
SEPT. 11: UC DAVIS AT SAN DIEGO (TORERO STADIUM - SAN DIEGO, CALIF.), 1 p.m. PT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: UC Davis comes off its fourth win over a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent as a Division I program, this time stunning Tulsa, 19-17, in a rare Thursday night contest. Junior QB Hunter Rodrigues threw for a career-high 311 yards, senior WR Jared Harrell totaled a career-best 136 receiving yards, while K Isaiah Gomez tied a school record for four field goals. LB Cole Hansen and DB Chris Venable also created two key Golden Hurricane turnovers in the fourth quarter. This sets the stage for the Aggies' return trip to Torero Stadium, the site of the 2019 season's 38-35 thriller that ended with Devon King thwarting a would-be touchdown at the goal line with no time remaining. UC Davis has won five straight matchups against USD, a streak that dates back to September 18, 2010.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
SEPT. 12: SACRAMENTO STATE AT UC DAVIS (AGGIE SOCCER FIELD), 1 p.m. PT
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NEWS & NOTABLES: Fresh off its largest scoring output in nearly five years, the UC Davis women's soccer team has only one match this week, welcoming Causeway rival Sacramento State to the Aggie Soccer Field for a Sunday matinee. The Aggies left the "Gem State" with a split on Sunday, following up a 1-0 defeat at Boise State with a 4-0 shutout of Idaho State on Sunday, scoring the most goals since a 4-0 victory over UC Riverside in 2016.
Emma Hasco had the game-winner in the 22nd minute and UC Davis opened the floodgates with three scores in a seven-minute span midway through the second. Freshman
Sammie Ruelas scored twice in that flurry — both assisted by
Leslie Fregoso — while
Molly Branigan tallied the first goal of her Aggie career to cap the scoring. Goalkeeper
Nicki Rucki, who had a career-high eight saves in the loss to the Broncos, finished with four stops for her second shutout of the year against the Bengals while adding her first career assist — and the first by an Aggie keeper since Sarah Peters against Utah Valley in 2008.
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