2009 Big West Men's Soccer
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2009 BIG WEST men’S SOCCER Men’s Soccer Contact: Chris Hargraves, Assistant Information Director - [email protected] • Mailing Address: 2 Corporate Park, Suite 206, Irvine, CA 92606 Phone: (949) 261-2525 • Fax: (949) 261-2528 • Website: www.bigwest.org FINAL 2009 RELEASE 2009 STANDINGS 2009 AWARDS Conference Overall Offensive Player of the Year W L T Pts. Pct. W L T Pct. Hm Rd Neut. Irving Garcia, UC Irvine $(1) UC Santa Barbara 8 1 1 25 .850 17 5 2 .750 10-2-0 6-3-1 1-0-1 (2) Cal Poly 6 3 1 19 .650 8 10 2 .450 6-2-1 2-7-1 0-1-0 Defensive Player of the Year (3) UC Irvine 6 4 0 18 .600 15 7 0 .714 5-5-0 9-1-0 1-1-0 Martin Hedevag, UC Santa Barbara (4) Cal State Northridge 5 4 1 16 .550 10 8 2 .550 6-1-1 3-6-0 1-1-1 Midfielder of the Year Cal State Fullerton 4 5 1 13 .450 8 9 2 .474 4-4-1 1-5-1 3-0-0 Danny Barrera, UC Santa Barbara UC Davis 3 6 1 10 .350 6 12 1 .342 3-4-0 1-7-1 2-1-0 UC Riverside 0 9 1 1 .050 1 16 1 .083 1-5-1 0-9-0 0-2-0 Goalkeeper of the Year $ - Clinched Big West regular season championship Irving Garcia, UC Irvine () - Big West Tournament seed Freshman of the Year SCHEDULE Machael David, UC Santa Barbara NCAA Tournament Results Big West Tournament Results Coach of the Year NCAA Tournament - First Round Big West Tournament - Semifinals Terry Davila, Cal State Northridge Thursday, November 19 Wednesday, November 11 Wofford 0, atUC Santa Barbara 1 #3 UC Irvine 2, at #2 Cal Poly 1 (2OT) at #1 UC Santa Barbara 1, #4 Cal State Northridge 0 NCAA Tournament - Second Round Sunday, November 22 Big West Tournament - Championship Match UC Santa Barbara 1, at #11 San Diego 0 Saturday, November 14 Stanford 1, at #16 UC Irvine 0 #3 UC Irvine 4, at #1 UC Santa Barbara 1 NCAA Tournament - Sweet 16 Sunday, November 29 at #6 UCLA 2, UC Santa Barbara 1 All Times Pacific Rankings are NCAA Tournament seed 2009 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Date Player Team Year Sept. 7 Amani Walker UCI Jr. Sept. 14 Cameron Sims CSUN Sr. Sept. 21 Dylan Riley CSUN Sr. Sept. 28 Chris Beville UCD Jr. Oct. 5 Patrick McLain CP Jr. Oct. 12 Irving Garcia UCI Sr. Oct. 19 Junior Burgos CP Jr. Oct. 26 David Zamora CP Jr. Nov. 2 Amani Walker UCI Jr. Nov. 9 Devin Deldo CSUN Sr. 2009 BIG WEST Men’S SOCCER AROUND THE BIG WEST BIG WEST VS. #3 UCI vs. #1 UCSB Championship Recap UCI’s Garcia Makes his Mark NONCONFERENCE TEAMS (BY CONF.) The rematch of the inaugural final from 2008 had UC Irvine’s Irving Garcia may have only been around nearly the same outcome as third-seeded UC Irvine the Big West for two seasons, but goalkeepers around America East . .0-1-0 posted a 4-1 victory over #1 UC Santa Barbara. The the league and nation will certainly remember his Anteaters had topped the Gauchos in last year’s final exploits. The native of San Luis, Ariz., was a two-time Atlantic Coast . 0-0-0 by a 4-2 count at Anteater Stadium. This time around, first team All-Big West choice and named the league’s Atlantic Sun . 0-0-0 UCI controlled the tempo from the get-go and picked Offensive Player of the Year this season after leading up a pair of goals in the first 30 minutes of the match. the conference in points (25), tying for the lead in Atlantic 10 . .0-0-0 In all, four different ‘Eaters accounted for the goals, assists (9) and third in goals (8). In his 45-game UCI Big East . 4-1-0 while Andrew Fontein was stellar in net with six saves. career, Garcia amassed 15 goals and 18 assists for 48 The physical match saw UCSB play a man down after a points, a 1.07 points per game average and was twice Big South . 0-1-1 foul in the 37th minute, then play two men down after named first team All-Big West. Big Ten ...................................2-1-1 a foul in the 87th minute. Gimme Three Colonial Athletic..........................0-0-0 UCI’s Aguilar Claims Tournament MVP The Big West was on a hat trick drought prior to the Conference USA ..........................2-0-0 UC Irvine’s Carlos Aguilar claimed the 2009 Big West 2009 season, but that drought turned into a deluge as Tournament Most Valuable Player award after having three players all tallied three-goal games. The barrage Horizon . 4-1-0 a hand in four of UCI’s six goals in the tourney. In started with Cal Poly’s Junior Burgos who picked up a Independents . 0-0-0 the semifinal against Cal Poly, Aguilar scored twice, trifecta of goals in the Mustangs’ 3-2 win over Cal State including converting the game-winner on a penalty Fullerton October 14. Then Burgos’ teammate David Ivy . .1-0-0 kick in double overtime. In the final against UC Santa Zamora accomplished the feat 10 days later against Cal Metro Atlantic ............................0-0-0 Barbara, Aguilar scored on another penalty kick and State Northridge. Finally UC Irvine’s Amani Walker put Mid-American ............................0-0-0 assisted on the first goal of the match. He also was three in the back of the net just four days later against named to the College Soccer News National Team of the CSF. In all the Big West went 260 days between Burgos’ Missouri Valley . .0-1-0 Week for his efforts in the Big West Tournament. hat trick and the previous one in 2007, but the trio of Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . .6-7-1 three-goal games happened in just a span of 14 days. UCSB Wins Big West Regular Season Crown Northeast . 4-0-0 UC Santa Barbara continued to be the flagship team of Vom Steeg Stands Alone in Big West Lore Pac-10 . .0-9-0 the Big West as the Gauchos won the regular season Now in the 11th year at the helm of his alma mater, UC title for the sixth time since the league reinstated Santa Barbara head coach Tim Vom Steeg has achieved Patriot . .0-0-0 men’s soccer in 2001. In all, UCSB’s six regular season a major Big West milestone this season. Thanks to the Southern.................................1-0-0 championships is the most in Big West history, Gauchos’ 1-0 win over Cal Poly on October 7, Vom Steeg surpassing former member Fresno State’s total of five is now the all-time winningest coach in Big West lore, Summit . 0-0-0 regular season crowns. In addition, the Gauchos’ eight passing former Fresno State manager Jose Elgorriaga’s West Coast . .4-7-0 conference wins tied for the third-most victories in a total of 126 wins. Vom Steeg is already the career leader 10-game conference season in Big West history, while in league-only triumphs, posting his 60th career win their .850 winning percentage in conference matches against Big West foes with the Gauchos’ victory against Non-Division I . .0-0-0 is also tied for the third-best in Big West lore. UC Irvine on September 27. He is the lone coach in Big West history to post 60+ wins in conference play and Reclassifying . .2-3-1 Two Teams Selected for NCAAs 120+ overall wins during league membership. The Big West continued its reputation as a top-flight NCAA men’s soccer league as two clubs were selected Turnaround by CSF Total . 30-32-4 to participate in the NCAA Tournament. Conference Cal State Fullerton may have just missed out on the Records exclude Big West Tournament tournament champion UC Irvine made it two NCAA postseason, but the Titans had plenty of highlights in trips in a row, while at-large selection UC Santa Barbara a solid bounceback year. After going just 19-35-5 in gained entry to the race for the national championship coach Bob Ammann’s first three seasons, including a BIG WEST RECORDS VS. for the eighth consecutive season. UCI claimed the #16 5-14-1 mark last year, the Titans rebounded in ‘09 to seed in the tourney, but fell in the second round to the tune of an 8-9-2 mark. In addition, after winning NON-CONFERENCE TEAMS (BY Team) Stanford by a 1-0 final. Meanwhile UCSB played three just eight conference matches since 2005, CSF posted matches in the NCAA Tournament, defeating Wofford a respectable 4-5-1 mark against Big West opposition Cal Poly ....................................................................2-6-1 and #11 seed San Diego by identical 1-0 scores before this year. Cal State Fullerton showed signs of a big falling to #6 seed UCLA by a 2-1 count. turnaround coming in ‘09 as the club downed Penn Cal State Fullerton ...............................................4-4-1 State 2-1 in overtime in its season opener. The win was Cal State Northridge ...........................................5-3-1 Hayden Dazzles Between the Pipes the program’s first over a BCS school on the road since UC Santa Barbara goalkeeper Sam Hayden had an 2001. UC Davis ..................................................................3-6-0 impressive debut season at the DI level, notching an UC Irvine .................................................................7-3-0 impressive 16 shutouts and posting an 0.74 goals CSUN Back Among Contenders against average.