No. 4 Cal (8-8, 4-4) Hosts No. 11 Arizona State (9-10, 2-5) THIS WEEK: Sat., Apr
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University of California Athletic Media Relations Office / 355 Haas Pavilion / Berkeley, Calif. 94720 Phone: 510-642-5363 / Fax: 510-643-7778 / www.calbears.com Apr. 4, 2007 Contact: Scott Ball WOMEN’S WATER POLO No. 4 Cal (8-8, 4-4) Hosts No. 11 Arizona State (9-10, 2-5) THIS WEEK: Sat., Apr. 7 Arizona State, Spieker Aquatics Complex, Berkeley, Calif. 12:00 p.m. 2007 Cal Scoreboard BEARS ENTERTAIN SUN DEVILS: No. 4 Cal (8-8, 4-4) has an important match 8-8 overall, 4-4 MPSF this Saturday when it hosts No. 11-ranked Arizona State (9-10, 2-5) in a MPSF Date Opponent Time/Result 1/31 Pacific* W 24-6 contest at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The Golden Bears are looking to get over 2/3 vs. UCLA# L 10-2 the .500 mark for the season and improve their for seeding for this year’s MPSF 2/3 vs. Indiana# W 13-5 Championship, hosted by the Sun Devils, Apr. 26-29, in Tempe, Ariz. Cal defeated 2/4 vs. Hawii# W 5-2 Arizona State, 7-6, in last year’s fifth place match of the MPSF Tournament. The 2/4 at Stanford# L 7-5 Bears will receive a boost with the return of senior Elsie Windes, who was a 2/10 at San Jose State* L 14-13 OT 2/16 UCLA* L 12-8 member of the USA National Team that captured a gold medal at the 2007 FINA 2/24 vs. UC San Diego! W 14-5 World Championships, Mar. 19-31 in Melbourne, Australia. Windes had joined 2/24 vs. Hawaii! W 5-4 OT former Cal standouts Heather Petri and Ericka Lorenz on the victorious Team 2/25 vs. UCLA! L 7-3 USA squad. Cal is in its second season under Richard Corso, the 1996 United 2/25 vs. USC! L 15-9 States men’s Olympic coach. In 2006, the Bears were 18-9 and a school-record 9- 3/4 UC Santa Barbara* W 10-7 3/10 at UC Irvine* W 8-6 OT 3 in MPSF competition, placing fifth in the MPSF Tournament. 3/11 at Long Beach State* W 13-10 3/17 San Diego State* L 7-5 2007 CAL NOTES: In the Bears’ hard-fought 10-9 loss last Saturday at Hawaii, Cal 3/31 at Hawaii* L 10-9 received two goals apiece from junior Molly Hayes and freshmen Grace 4/7 Arizona State* 12:00 p.m. Reynolds, Meghan Corso and Julie Oreglia, while junior goalie Heather Stuart 4/13 at USC* 6:00 p.m. 4/14 at Cal State Northridge* 12:00 p.m. registered nine saves. It was the second consecutive tight battle between the 4/20 Stanford* 7:00 p.m. Bears and the Rainbow Wahines, as Cal was able to upend Hawaii, 5-4 in 4/26-29 at MPSF Championship** All Day overtime, Feb. 24 at the UC Irvine Invitational. Reynolds is the Bears’ leading 5/11-13 at NCAA Championship*** TBA scorer as a true freshman with 30 goals, including five goals in the season-opener HOME matches in BOLD *MPSF Match versus Pacific. She also had four goals in a victory over Indiana and sent the Feb. #denotes Stanford Invitational ! denotes UC Irvine Invitational 24 match versus Hawaii into overtime with a goal with 1:11 left in regulation (junior **hosted in Tempe, Ariz. Vanessa Lindsey ended up notching the match-winning goal versus the Wahines ***hosted in Los Alamitos, Calif. with 1:24 left in the first overtime period). Reynolds is now 14th in the MPSF with 1.88 goals per match. Corso, daughter of head coach Richard Corso, is second on HEAD COACH the squad with 21 goals, while Hayes is third with 20 goals. Hayes was the MPSF Richard Corso (Second year, 26-17, Player of the Week Mar. 13, helping Cal to MPSF victories at UC Irvine and Long .605), a coaching legend who has served Beach State. She now has 48 career goals after earning first-team USWP All- as head coach of both the United States Men’s Olympic Team and the Canadian America and 20-Under Nationals MVP honors this past summer. Stuart has National Team, was named the head recorded 122 saves in 15 matches this season, with a career-high 15 saves in the coach of Cal women’s water polo program Bears’ 5-4 overtime victory over Hawaii on Feb. 24. Her other top matches this on August 25, 2005. Corso served as the year include 11 saves versus Stanford Feb. 4, and 12 saves versus San Diego United States men’s Olympic team head State Mar. 17. Cal has played its last five matches without the services of lone coach from 1992 to 1996. He led the senior and three-time All-American Elsie Windes (16 goals in 11 matches in 2007, United States to a seventh-place finish at 140 career goals), who was with the USA National Team at the 2007 FINA World the 1996 games in Atlanta and a gold Championships. Windes played 12 minutes in the 6-5 gold medal victory over host medal at the 1995 Pan American Games. The 1996 Olympic team included current Australia, and scored a goal in the opening round 9-7 victory versus The Cal men’s coach Kirk Everist and former Netherlands. Golden Bear standouts Gavin Arroyo, Troy Barnhart, Chris Humbert and Chris NOTING ARIZONA STATE: No. 11 Arizona State (9-10, 2-5) is coached by Todd Oeding. Prior to assuming his role with Clapper (second year) and is led by sophomore Addison Doud with 38 goals in Team USA, Corso served as head coach 19 matches. Last season, Cal won three matches versus the Sun Devils – 14-7, in of the Canadian National Team, which the second round of the Stanford Invitational; 8-7, in an MPSF match in Tempe; finished fourth at the 1991 Pan American and 7-6 in the fifth-place match of the 2006 MPSF Tournament in Irvine, Calif. Games. He also gained international experience as the head coach of the USA Did You Know? National Junior Team (1984 to 1988) and *Two members of the 2007 Cal squad, junior Molly Hayes and freshman Grace as goalkeeper coach for the 1984 and Reynolds, have brothers (twin brother Mike Hayes, Frank Reynolds) who were 2004 Olympic teams. Most recently, Corso had served as head coach of the Harvard members of the Bears’ 2006 National Champion men’s water polo team. Water Polo Foundation in Los Angeles. *At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Cal had three former players (Ericka Lorenz, Heather Petri, Courtney Johnson) compete for Team USA in the first-ever Olympic water polo competition for women, earning a silver medal. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Lorenz and Petri helped the United States to a bronze medal. *The Golden Bears have compiled a 255-99 record (.720, 61-19 at Spieker Aquatics, .763) since their charter season as a varsity sport in 1996, including three straight national runner-up finishes from 1996-98 and a MPSF title in 1999. 2007 GOLDEN BEAR WATER POLO STATISTICS 4-2 NAME GOALS Grace Reynolds 30 Meghan Corso 21 Molly Hayes 20 Elsie Windes 16 Julie Oreglia 13 Darby Anderson 12 Vanessa Lindsey 9 Camille Hewko 6 Melissa Wheeler 6 Remy Champion 4 Paige Lorenz 4 Katya Eadington 3 Meredith Butte 1 Erin Scully 1 CALIFORNIA TOTALS 146 OPPONENT TOTALS 127 GOALKEEPER G MINS GA SAVES AG Lauren Burke 2 27 3 4 3.56 Elizabeth Layton 1 8 3 2 12.00 Heather Stuart 15 489 121 122 7.92 CAL TOTALS 16 524 127 128 7.76 (8-8 Overall; 4-4 MPSF; 2-2 Home; 2-3 Road; 4-3 Neutral) Date Opponent Result Score Streak Leading Scorer Jan. 31 Pacific* W 24-6 WON 1 Reynolds 5 Feb. 3-4 at Stanford Invitational Fourth Place Feb. 3 vs. UCLA# L 10-2 LOST 1 Corso, Windes 1 Feb. 3 vs. Indiana# W 13-5 WON 1 Reynolds 4 Feb. 4 vs. Hawaii# W 5-2 WON 2 Five with 1 Feb. 4 at Stanford# L 7-5 LOST 1 Hayes 2 Feb. 10 at San Jose State* L 14-13 OT LOST 2 Windes 4 Feb. 16 UCLA* L 12-8 LOST 3 Windes 4 Feb. 24-25 at UC Irvine Invitational Fourth Place Feb. 24 vs. UC San Diego^ W 14-5 WON 1 Corso 3 Feb. 24 vs. Hawaii^ W 5-4 OT WON 2 Reynolds 2 Feb. 25 vs. UCLA^ L 7-3 LOST 1 Corso, Lindsey, Windes 1 Feb. 25 vs. USC^ L 15-9 LOST 2 Oreglia, Windes 2 Mar. 4 UC Santa Barbara* W 10-7 WON 1 Corso, Reynolds 2 Mar. 10 at UC Irvine* W 8-6 OT WON 2 Hayes 3 Mar. 11 at Long Beach State* W 13-10 WON 3 Oreglia 3 Mar. 17 San Diego State* L 7-5 LOST 1 Corso 2 Mar. 31 at Hawaii* L 10-9 LOST 2Corso, Hayes, Oreglia, Reynolds 2 Bold indicates home match at Spieker Aquatics Complex *indicates MPSF Match, #indicates Stanford Invitational, ^indicates UC Irvine Tournament, %indicates MPSF Tournament .