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UCLA OPENS NCAA TOURNAMENT PLAY AGAINST SMU Fifth-seeded Bruins host second-round game on Nov. 22.

UCLA VS. SMU ̶ The No. 5 seeded UCLA men's soccer team (12-4-3) begin NCAA Tournament play 2005 UCLA SCHEDULE/RESULTS on Tuesday, Nov. 22 against SMU (11-5-3). The second round matchup will take place on Frank W. Date Opponent Time/Result Marshall Field at Drake Stadium at 7 pm. 8/19 vs. #1/1 Indiana (ex.) T 1-1 FOLLOW THE BRUINS ON THE INTERNET ̶ A free, live broadcast of Tuesday's game will be available 9/2 vs. #13/21 Santa Clara* L 2-3 on internet radio at www.uclabruins.com. Danny Lee and Tayt Ianni will call the action. Live stats will 9/4 #4/2 MARYLAND W 4-0 be available on the uclabruins.com website. 9/11 at Loyola Marymount W 4-0 HOW THEY GOT HERE ̶ As the fi fth seed, UCLA received a fi rst round bye. The Bruins qualifi ed for 9/16 at Penn State† W 1-0 their 23rd consecutive NCAA Tournament by winning the Pac-10 Conference for the fourth consecu- 9/18 vs. Ohio State† L 1-2 tive year. SMU received an at-large bid into the tournament and won its fi rst-round game against San 9/25 UNLV W 3-0 Francisco, 2-1. Freshman Paulo da Silva scored both goals for the Mustangs, who shut out the Dons 9/30 #3 CALIFORNIA W 2-0 for 89:58, the only goal coming with two seconds left and the keeper playing up. 10/2 STANFORD W 2-0 BRUINS REACH TOURNAMENT FOR 23RD STRAIGHT YEAR ̶ UCLA's selection into the NCAA Tourna- 10/7 at Washington W 1-0 ment is its 23rd consecutive and 33rd overall. UCLA's NCAA streak is the second-longest active streak 10/9 at Oregon State L 0-1 in the nation, and the 33 NCAA appearances are second only to Saint Louis' 42. UCLA has won national 10/14 at #23 CS Northridge T 0-0 championships in 1985, 1990, 1997 and 2002. The Bruins' all-time NCAA record is 55-29. 10/16 #19/25 SAN DIEGO ST. T 0-0 UCLA VS. TOURNAMENT FIELD ̶ The Bruins went 5-2-3 versus the tournament fi eld in the regular 10/20 #22/23 UCSB W 1-0 season. UCLA's victories came against No. 1 seed Maryland (4-0), No. 11 seed Penn State (1-0), No. 7 10/28 OREGON STATE W 1-0 seed California (2-0), UC Santa Barbara (1-0) and San Diego State (1-0 in double overtime). The Bruins 10/30 WASHINGTON W 1-0 also have ties against California (1-1), No. 15 seed Cal State Northridge (0-0) and San Diego State (0-0). 11/4 at Stanford W 1-0, ot UCLA's losses came against Ohio State (2-1) and Santa Clara (3-2). 11/6 at #15/10 California T 1-1 POTENTIAL THIRD ROUND MATCHUP ̶ The winner of Tuesday's game will move on to play the winner 11/10 at San Diego L 2-4 of the Virginia Tech/UNC-Greensboro second round game. If UCLA wins its second round game, the 11/13 at #18 San Diego St. W 1-0, 2ot third round game will take place at Drake Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 7:00 pm. Ticket prices for 11/22 #14 SMU 7:00 pm that game will be $9 for adults and $7 for youth/students. BRUINS IN NATIONAL RANKINGS ̶ UCLA fi nished the regular season ranked No. 7 by the NSCAA and * - at Cal State Fullerton; † - at Penn State Nike No. 8 by Soccer America, Soccer Times and College Soccer News. Classic. Home games are in BOLD CAPS. All times are local to game site. Rankings are Soccer REED, BRUIN DEFENSE AMONGST NATION'S LEADERS ̶ Goalkeeper Eric Reed and the Bruin defense America/NSCAA. are proving they are amongst the best in the country. Reed ranks fourth in the nation in goals against average (0.46) and second in shots on goals save percentage (0.877). The Bruin team ranks No. 1 in 2005 UCLA QUICK FACTS the nation in shutout percentage (0.74), No. 5 in team goals against average (0.55) and No. 4 in shots on goals save percentage (0.857). The Bruin defense is led by Jordan Harvey, Brandon Owens, Marvell Head Coach ...... Jorge Salcedo Wynne, Brad Rusin and Kiel McClung, along with defensive midfi elders Patrick Ianni and Greg Folk. Alma Mater ...... UCLA '02 These seven players no doubt have experience on their side - they have been capped by U.S. National Coaching Record ...... 26-8-5 (2 years) Teams a combined total of 123 times and have played a combined total of 365 games for UCLA. Asst. Coaches ...... Peter van de Ven ...... Paul Bravo UCLA WINS FOURTH CONSECUTIVE PAC-10 TITLE ̶ The Bruins were the ...... Jose Lopez (volunteer) fi rst team to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament after they clinching the 2005 STAT LEADERS Pac-10 title with a 1-0 win over Stanford and a 1-1 tie against Cal. The Pac-10 Home Field ...... Frank W. Marshall Field Goals title was UCLA's fourth consecutive, making seniors Jordan Harvey, Evan Capacity ...... 11,700 Kamani Hill - 7 Conference ...... Pacifi c-10 Corey, Nate Pena and Ryan Valdez the fi rst players in UCLA history to win Jonathan Bornstein - 5 2005 Record ...... 12-4-3 a conference championship all four years. Maxwell Griffi n - 4 2005 Conf. Record/Finish ...... 7-1-2/1st ZIZZO NAMED PAC-10 FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR ̶ Midfi elder/forward Sal Assists 2004 Record ...... 14-4-2 Zizzo became the third UCLA player in six years to be awarded the Pac-10 Kamani Hill - 8 2004 Conference Record/Finish ....6-2/1st Freshman of the Year. The U.S. Under-18 National Team player from San Sal Zizzo - 5 2004 NCAA Finish ...... 3rd Round Diego ranked second on the UCLA team with fi ve assists and totaled seven Marvell Wynne - 3 Lettermen Returning/Lost ...... 20/8 points in all. Zizzo also earned second-team All-Pac-10 acclaim, the only Points Starters Returning/Lost ...... 7/4 freshman in the conference to make the fi rst or second team. Kamani Hill - 22 NCAA Championships ...... 4 Jonathan Bornstein - 12 IANNI, WYNNE NAMED SEMIFINALISTS FOR M.A.C. HERMANN TROPHY ...... (1985, 1990, 1997, 2002) Maxwell Griffi n - 10 ̶ Junior midfi elder Patrick Ianni and sophomore defender Marvell Wynne have been selected as semifi nalists for the 2005 M.A.C. Hermann Trophy. GAA Eric Reed - 0.46 Ianni, the 2004 Pac-10 Co-Player of the Year, earned fi rst-team all-conference Saves honors for the second consecutive year. He has scored two goals and two Eric Reed - 57 assists this season, both career highs. One of his goals was the game-winner at Washington, and he also assisted on Wynne's game-winner against third-ranked Cal on Sept. 30. SOCCER AMERICA RANKINGS - 11/14 Wynne's goal against the Golden Bears was the fi rst of his career. He has totaled one goal and three assists while also earning fi rst-team All-Pac-10 acclaim. He has twice been named to the Top Drawer 1. Akron (17-1-2) Soccer National Team of the Week. 2. Connecticut (15-3-1) 3. New Mexico (15-1-2) Defensively, the two players have been instrumental in UCLA's 14 shutouts this year and helped limit a high-scoring Maryland team to zero shots on goal. The Bruin defense has held its opponents to single- 4. Duke (12-4-3) digit shot totals in eight games and ranks No. 1 in the nation with a 0.74 shutout percentage. The Bruin 5. Penn State (12-6-2) duo were starters on the U.S. Under-20 National Team that advanced to the Round of 16 at the 2005 6. Maryland (15-4-1) World Youth Championships. Their defense helped the U.S. shut out all three of its opponents in group 7. Indiana (13-2-6) play. Wynne also had an assist on the game-winning goal against Argentina. 8. UCLA (12-4-3) 9. Old Dominion (15-3-2) NINE BRUINS HONORED BY PAC-10 ̶ Nine UCLA players were selected to the All-Pac-10 Conference 10. North Carolina (15-3-3) team, including a conference-high four fi rst-team players. Making the fi rst team were forward Kamani 11. California (13-3-2) Hill, midfi elder Patrick Ianni, goalkeeper Eric Reed and defender Marvell Wynne. Receiving second-team 12. Clemson (11-5-3) honors were midfi elder Jonathan Bornstein, defender Jordan Harvey, defender Brandon Owens and midfi elder/forward Sal Zizzo. Freshman defender Brad Rusin earned honorable mention acclaim. 13. Virginia (12-4-2) 14. Virginia Tech (10-5-4) FIVE BRUINS EARN ACADEMIC HONORS ̶ Junior defender Luke Mehring has been named to the ESPN 15. UNC Greensboro (15-5-0) The Magazine Academic All-District 8 men’s soccer team, as selected by the College Sports Information 16. Creighton (12-4-3) Directors of America (CoSIDA). Mehring, a history major who holds a cumulative GPA of 3.4, advances to 17. South Carolina (12-6-2) the national ballot and will be up for consideration for Academic All-America honors. Mehring was also 18. North Carolina State (11-6-1) selected to the Pac-10 All-Academic team (second-team), along with Evan Corey (fi rst-team, 3.41 gpa), 19. South Florida (12-6-1) Eric Reed (second-team, 3.21), Greg Folk (honorable mention) and Mike Zaher (honorable mention). 20. Cal State Northridge (14-3-3) HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE ̶ The 2005 Bruins became the fi rst Pac-10 team and fi rst ever UCLA team 21. San Francisco (11-5-4) to shut out all home opponents in the regular season. In eight home games, the Bruins went 7-0-1 22. San Diego State (9-3-6) and allowed zero goals and just 63 shots (7.9 avg.). UCLA owns an all-time record of 47-7-3 at Frank 23. Wake Forest (11-7-2) W. Marshall Field. 24. Hartwick (13-5-1) SCOUTING THE MUSTANGS ̶ SMU won the Conference-USA regular season championship but lost in 25. St. John’s (9-5-5) a shootout to Tulsa in the fi rst round of the conference tournament. Senior forward Duke Hashimoto, the Conference-USA Off ensive Player of the Year, leads the Mustangs in scoring with 19 points (8 goals, 3 assists). David Chun and Jay Needham also earned fi rst-team all-conference honors. Needham ranks second on the team with six goals and 13 points. Goalkeeper Matt Wideman has started the last six FINAL NSCAA RANKINGS - 11/15 games and has posted a 1.13 overall goals against average with two shutouts. SMU is ranked No. 14 in the fi nal regular season NSCAA poll. 1. New Mexico 15-1-2 PRIOR MATCHUPS ̶ UCLA leads the all-time series against SMU, 5-3-1, but has not faced the Mustangs 2. North Carolina 15-3-3 since 2001, a 1-0 NCAA third round loss at Dallas. Undefeated SMU was the top-seeded team in the 3. Maryland 15-4-1 NCAA tournament in 2001 and scored the game's only goal in the 76th minute, four minutes after Bruin 4. Connecticut 15-3-1 midfi elder Ryan Futagaki was red-carded. The two teams have faced each other four times in the NCAA 5. Indiana 13-2-6 Tournament, with UCLA winning games in 1985 (2-0 in the quarterfi nals), 1990 (2-0 in the quarterfi nals), 6. Duke 12-4-3 and 1994 (4-2 in the second round). The Bruins advanced to the College Cup in each of those three years. 7. UCLA 12-4-3 SMU's only victory was the most recent playoff matchup, the 1-0 third round win in 2001. 8. Akron 17-1-2 9. Penn State 12-6-2 BY THE NUMBERS ̶ UCLA had a scoreless streak of 749 minutes snapped at Cal on Nov. 16 … Goalkeeper 10. California 13-3-2 Eric Reed has shut out opponents in 13 of his 17 games played, with only Ohio State, Oregon State, Cal and San Diego putting the ball past him … Reed currently holds a career goals against average of 11. Creighton 12-4-3 0.60, which would tie Brad Friedel for the lowest career GAA in UCLA history … With his 0.46 GAA this 12. Virginia Tech 10-5-4 season, Reed is on pace to break UCLA's single-season school record for lowest GAA, held by Zach Wells 13. Hofstra 14-4-3 (0.52, set in 2003) … With a team goals against average of 0.55, the Bruins are closing in on the school 14. SMU 10-5-3 record of 0.52, set in 1989 and 2003. 15. Clemson 11-5-3 16. Cal St. Northridge 14-3-3 UCLA SOCCER A FAMILY AFFAIR ̶ Several members of the 2005 Bruin squad have extensive and long- 17. Old Dominion 15-3-2 standing ties to the UCLA soccer program, starting with head coach Jorge Salcedo. The 1990-93 UCLA 18. St. John’s 9-5-5 letterwinner also had family members involved in the program. Father Hugo was a UCLA assistant coach 19. Wake Forest 11-7-2 from 1978-79, and younger brother Eddie was a letterwinner in 1995. Three Meschures brothers are involved with the current team. Eli and Michael are on the team, and middle brother Harry is the team 20. Seton Hall 12-3-3 manager. Junior midfi elder Patrick Ianni and freshman forward Maxwell Griffi n each have older brothers 21. UC Santa Barbara 12-4-3 who won NCAA titles at UCLA - Tayt Ianni in 1990 and Leonard Griffi n in 2002. 22. Dartmouth 10-2-5 23. North Carolina State 11-6-1 EUROPEAN VACATIONS ̶ Five Bruins spent parts of the summer in Europe with the U.S. Youth National 24. Santa Clara 12-6-2 Teams. Junior Patrick Ianni and sophomore Marvell Wynne played with the Under-20s in Holland for the 24. Virginia 12-4-2 World Youth Championships. Sophomore Greg Folk and freshmen Jason Leopoldo and Sal Zizzo played with the Under-18s at the Lisbon Tournament in Portugal and won the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland. HEAD COACH JORGE SALCEDO ̶ Former UCLA All-American Jorge Salcedo is in his second season as head coach of the Bruins. In his fi rst year, he was selected the Pac-10 Co-Coach of the Year and led UCLA IN OTHER POLLS UCLA to its third consecutive Pac-10 title. The Bruins went 14-4-2 in his fi rst season. Salcedo was the Soccer Times - 8th Bruins' assistant coach from 2001-03 and helped lead UCLA to the 2002 NCAA Championship and to College Soccer News - 8th two Pac-10 titles. As a player, he was a four-year starter at UCLA and scored the game-winning penalty kick in the 1990 NCAA Championship game as a freshman. 2005 UCLA Men's Soccer UCLA Combined Team Statistics (as of Nov 14, 2005) All games

RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES...... (12- 4- 3) ( 7- 0- 1) ( 5- 2- 2) ( 0- 2- 0) CONFERENCE...... ( 7- 1- 2) ( 4- 0- 1) ( 3- 1- 1) ( 0- 0- 0) NON-CONFERENCE...... ( 5- 3- 1) ( 3- 0- 0) ( 2- 1- 1) ( 0- 2- 0)

DATE OPPONENT W/L SCORE ATT ## PLAYER GP G A Pts Sh Shot% SOG SOG% GW PK-AT ------Sep 02 vs #21 Santa Clara L 2-3 777 11 Hill, Kamani 19 7 8 22 48 .146 24 .500 4 0-0 Sep 04 #2 MARYLAND W 4-0 1129 9 Bornstein, Jonathan 19 5 2 12 43 .116 18 .419 2 0-0 Sep 11 at Loyola Marymount W 4-0 964 20 Griffin, Maxwell 19 4 2 10 11 .364 6 .545 2 0-0 Sep 16 at Penn State W 1-0 4017 4 Harvey, Jordan 19 3 2 8 23 .130 9 .391 1 0-0 Sep 18 vs Ohio State L 1-2 913 8 Zizzo, Sal 19 1 5 7 19 .053 10 .526 0 0-0 Sep 25 UNLV W 3-0 634 3 Ianni, Patrick 18 2 2 6 10 .200 5 .500 1 1-2 *Sep 30 #3 CALIFORNIA W 2-0 1237 2 Wynne, Marvell 16 1 3 5 7 .143 4 .571 1 0-0 *Oct 02 STANFORD W 2-0 665 5 Zaher, Mike 15 1 2 4 5 .200 4 .800 0 0-0 *Oct 07 at Washington W 1-0 1633 21 Corey, Evan 14 1 1 3 5 .200 4 .800 0 0-0 *Oct 09 at Oregon State L 0-1 735 18 Rusin, Brad 14 1 0 2 7 .143 1 .143 1 0-0 Oct 14 at #22 Cal State Northrid T O2 0-0 784 13 Mehring, Luke 9 1 0 2 5 .200 1 .200 0 0-0 *Oct 16 #19 SAN DIEGO STATE T O2 0-0 493 12 James, Damon 4 1 0 2 1 1.000 1 1.000 0 0-0 Oct 20 #22 UCSB W 1-0 731 6 Manak, Ramon 13 0 1 1 10 .000 5 .500 0 0-0 *Oct 28 OREGON STATE W 1-0 719 14 Owens, Brandon 18 0 1 1 2 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 *Oct 30 WASHINGTON W 1-0 1259 22 Reed, Eric 17 0 1 1 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 *Nov 04 at Stanford W OT 1-0 738 24 Valdez, Ryan 18 0 0 0 10 .000 6 .600 0 0-0 *Nov 06 at California T O2 1-1 800 16 Folk, Greg 19 0 0 0 7 .000 3 .429 0 0-0 Nov 10 at San Diego L 2-4 1822 15 Flores, Richard 9 0 0 0 4 .000 2 .500 0 0-0 *Nov 13 at #14 San Diego State W O2 1-0 1516 17 McClung, Kiel 9 0 0 0 2 .000 1 .500 0 0-0 27 Leopoldo, Jason 11 0 0 0 1 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 TEAM STATISTICS UCLA OPP 28 Alvarado, Sean 1 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 ------26 Meschures, Michael 1 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 SHOT STATISTICS...... 23 Gardner, Mike 1 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 Goals-Shot attempts.... 28-220 11-185 7 Ligonde, Edwige 6 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 Goals scored average... 1.41 0.55 1 Pena, Nate 3 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 Shot pct...... 127 .059 Total...... 19 28 30 86 220 .127 104 .473 12 1-2 Shots on goal-Attempts. 104-220 77-185 Opponents...... 19 11 6 28 185 .059 77 .416 4 2-2 SOG pct...... 473 .416 Shots/Game...... 11.6 9.7 Assists...... 30 6 |-GOAL AVERAGE-| |-SAVES-| CORNER KICKS...... 102 69 ## GOALTENDERS GP Minutes GA Avg Sv Pct W L T Sho PENALTY KICKS...... 1-2 2-2 ------OFFSIDES...... 64 42 22 Reed, Eric 17 1565:35 8 0.46 57 .877 12 3 2 12 PENALTIES...... 1 Pena, Nate 3 218:46 3 1.23 8 .727 0 1 1 1 Yellow cards...... 17 17 Total...... 19 1784:21 11 0.55 66 .857 12 4 3 14 Red cards...... 2 1 Opponents...... 19 1784:21 28 1.41 76 .731 4 12 3 3 ATTENDANCE...... Total...... 6867 13009 Dates/Avg Per Date..... 8/858 9/1445 GOALS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Neutral Site #/Avg..... 2/845 ------UCLA...... 12 14 1 1 - 28 Opponents...... 5 6 0 0 - 11

SHOTS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total ------UCLA...... 104 100 9 7 - 220 Opponents...... 96 79 7 3 - 185

SAVES BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total ------UCLA...... 40 24 2 0 - 66 Opponents...... 36 34 3 3 - 76

CORNER KICKS BY PRD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total ------UCLA...... 53 46 3 0 - 102 Opponents...... 29 37 2 1 - 69

FOULS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total ------UCLA...... 145 140 5 1 - 291 Opponents...... 141 115 8 7 - 271