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UCLA Men's Soccer Weekly Press Release • December 3, 2009 UCLA Sports Information • PO Box 24044 • Los Angeles, CA 90024-0044 SID Contact: Liza David • Phone: 310/206-8140 • Fax: 310/825-8664 • Email: [email protected] Website: www.uclabruins.com Sixth-Seeded UCLA Travels To Third-Seeded Wake Forest For NCAA Quarterfi nals Winner moves on to the College Cup in Cary, NC. This Week — Sixth-seeded UCLA (12-3-4) will travel to Winston-Salem, NC to take on third-seeded Wake 2009 UCLA Schedule Forest (17-4-2) in the quarterfi nals of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7 pm. The game will take place at Spry Stadium. Tickets are $7 for adults/$5 for students, youth & senior citizens. Date Opponent Time/Result Aug. 23 CSU Bakersfi eld^ (NAF) W 2-0 Live Coverage — Gametracker plus an in-game live blog will be available at wakeforestsports.com. Aug. 29 UC Irvine^ (NAF) T 1-1 (ot) How They Got Here: UCLA — The Bruins received an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament by virtue of Sept. 4 at #1/8 Maryland W 2-0 winning the Pac-10 Championship, UCLA's second in a row. They advanced to the quarterfi nals after a 2-1 Sept. 6 at Georgetown L 0-2 second round win over Sacramento State and a 2-1 third round comeback win over UC Santa Barbara. Sept. 10 UC Davis W 4-0 How They Got Here: Wake Forest — The Demon Deacons earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament Sept. 17 Cal St. Fullerton W 2-1 and a No. 3 seed. Wake Forest defeated UNC-Wilmington 2-1 in the second round, taking a 3-0 halftime Sept. 25 at San Diego W 2-1 lead on Duke before recording a 4-2 third round victory. Sept. 27 UNLV W 3-0 Bruins Reach Tournament For 27th Consecutive Year — UCLA earned its 27th consecutive and 37th overall Oct. 2 at Oregon State* W 3-1 NCAA Tournament berth after claiming the Pac-10 title on Nov. 8. UCLA's NCAA streak is the second-longest Oct. 4 at Washington T 1-1 (2ot) active streak in the nation, and the 37 NCAA appearances are second only to Saint Louis' 46. UCLA has an all-time NCAA Tournament record of 62-33 with national championships in 1985, 1990, 1997 and 2002. Oct. 11 at San Diego State* T 2-2 (2ot) Oct. 16 #10/13 California* W 1-0 UCLA vs. Tournament Field — The Bruins played four games against NCAA Tournament teams during the Oct. 18 #18/19 Stanford* W 2-0 regular season, going 3-1 with a 2-0 win at Maryland, a 2-1 win at San Diego and a 2-0 win over Stanford. The lone loss came at Stanford, 2-0. Oct. 23 at #20/25 California* W 1-0 Oct. 25 at #21 Stanford* L 0-2 Back-To-Back Pac-10 Champions — UCLA won its sixth Pac-10 title in the 10 years that the Pac-10 has Oct. 31 at Creighton L 0-1 sponsored men's soccer after fi nishing with a 5-1-4 league record. The Bruins hold a 12-2-6 record in Pac- 10 play the last two seasons. Nov. 6 Oregon State* T 1-1 (2ot) Nov. 8 Washington* W 2-1 In The Rankings — UCLA ended regular season play ranked fi fth in Soccer America's poll and eighth in the Nov. 14 San Diego State* T 1-1 (2ot) NSCAA/adidas poll. Wake Forest fi nished the regular season ranked 2nd in the Soccer America poll and 3rd in the NSCAA/adidas poll. Nov. 22 Sacramento St. (NCAA 2nd Rd.) W 2-1 Nov. 29 UCSB (NCAA 3rd Rd.) W 2-1 UCLA's History With Wake Forest — UCLA and Wake Forest have only played each other twice. The fi rst Dec. 5 at Wake Forest (NCAA Quarterfi nals) 7 pm ET meeting resulted in a 2-0 UCLA home victory in overtime in 1990. Last season, the Bruins played at Wake Forest on Sept. 5 and lost 3-0. Wake Forest has just three starters back from that game - goalkeeper Akira Dec. 11&13 NCAA College Cup (at Cary, NC) TBD Fitzgerald, midfi elder Corben Bone and defender Ike Opara. Eight of UCLA's starting 11 for last season's Home matches in bold game are still on the team now. ^ - Exhibition game * - Pac-10 Conference Match Scouting The Demon Deacons — Wake Forest is playing in the quarterfi nals for the fourth consecutive All home matches played at Marshall Field at Drake Stadium unless otherwise year. The 2007 NCAA champions have won 13 straight home playoff games, with their last loss coming indicated. Rankings are NSCAA/Soccer America. in the third round of the 2004 NCAAs, on penalty kicks. Wake Forest is 3-0 all-time in NCAA quarterfi nal games. Zack Schilawaski, who scored the game-winner in the 2007 NCAA Championship game, leads the UCLA's Career NCAA Stats Demon Deacons in scoring with 13 goals, 7 assists and 33 points. Austin da Luz ranks third in the NCAA with 14 assists and also has six goals for 24 points. Wake Forest ranks eighth in the nation in scoring of- Name GP GS G A Pts fense (2.09 goals per game). Kyle Nakazawa 9 9 3 5 11 David Estrada 10 9 4 1 9 U-20 Reunion — UCLA's Brian Perk and Michael Stephens will be reuniting this weekend with their U.S. Under- Michael Stephens 10 10 1 2 4 20 teammate Ike Opara. The trio played together at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in late September/early Fernando Monge 2 1 1 1 3 October. Perk was the starting goalkeeper, and Opara a starting defender. Stephens was a reserve. The U.S. Chandler Hoffman 2 2 1 0 2 Ryan Hollingshead 2 1 1 0 2 went 1-2 in the tournament, with a 4-1 win over Cameroon and losses to Germany and Korea. Andy Rose 3 3 0 1 1 M.A.C. Hermann Trophy Semifi nalists — Three M.A.C. Hermann Trophy semifi nalists will be playing in Sean Alvarado 6 2 0 0 0 Danny Suits 5 3 0 0 0 Saturday's quarterfi nal match - UCLA's Kyle Nakazawa and Wake Forest's Corben Bone and Ike Opara. Luis Serrano 3 3 0 0 0 Nakazawa has totaled 12 goals, including four game-winners, and seven assists this season. Bone is the Shawn Singh 2 2 0 0 0 ACC Offensive Player of the Year with two goals and 12 assists. Opara is the ACC Defensive Player of the Amobi Okugo 2 2 0 0 0 Year for the second-straight season. Michael Roman 2 0 0 0 0 Evan Raynr 2 0 0 0 0 NCAA Battle-Tested — UCLA's core group of players has plenty of NCAA experience, with three players re- Eder Arreola 1 1 0 0 0 maining from the starting lineup of the Bruins' 2006 NCAA fi nalist squad (David Estrada, Michael Stephens Zack Zerrenner 1 1 0 0 0 and Kyle Nakazawa), plus two players who were reserves on that squad (Sean Alvarado and Brian Perk). Chris Cummings 1 0 0 0 0 Nineteen Bruins have played in a total of 65 NCAA Tournament games, with Estrada and Stephens lead- Andrew Sinderhoff 1 0 0 0 0 Dakota Collins 1 0 0 0 0 ing the way with 10 games played each. Estrada is UCLA's leading active goal scorer in NCAA Tournament games with four goals (all in 2006). Nakazawa has recorded three goals and fi ve assists, and Stephens Goalkeepers GP GS GA GAA Sv has one goal and two assists. Two of UCLA's goalkeepers have started at least one game - Brian Perk in Brian Perk (359 min.) 4 4 3 0.75 10 2007, 2008 and 2009 and Trevor Hunter in the 2007 2nd round. Trevor Hunter (91 min.) 2 1 3 2.97 4 All Goals Lead Through Nakazawa — Senior midfi elder Kyle Nakazawa has been UCLA's go-to guy this season, leading the team with a career-high 12 goals, seven assists and 31 points. He has had a hand in p. 1 of 3 18 of UCLA's last 24 goals, and the Bruins are undefeated with a 10-0-3 record in games in which he has either scored a goal or assisted on a goal. 2009 Honors UCLA In The Rankings He has contributed either a goal or assist on 61% (19-of-31) of UCLA's Sean Alvarado Week SA NSCAA CSN TDS ST total goals this year. • Honorable mention All-Pac-10 Preseason 9 19 17 20 18 •Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week Triple 7s — Three Bruin players lead the team in assists with seven each 9/7 9 15 10 21 12 (week of Oct. 18) 9/14 6 12 10 19 12 - Kyle Nakazawa, David Estrada and Michael Stephens. Nakazawa now 9/21 3 10 7 16 8 has 26 assists in his career, just three away from the schools' Top 10 list. David Estrada • 1st-team All-Pac-10 9/28 2 4 5 8 5 Estrada this season has equaled his career total coming into the year and •Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week 10/5 2 4 3 7 4 now has 14 career assists. Stephens has totaled 16 assists his last two (week of Nov.