FRESNO STATE WATER POLO 2019 GAME NOTES | WEEK 11 #15 FRESNO STATE AT #23 AZUSA PACIFIC MARCH 29 | 3 PM | GLENDORA, CALIF. (CITRUS COLLEGE AQUATICS CENTER) LIVE STATS: THEFOSH.NET #15 FRESNO STATE AT #13 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT MARCH 30 |12 PM | LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (BURNS CENTER) LIVE STATS: THEFOSH.NET WEBSITE: GOBULLDOGS.COM | TWITTER: @FRESNOSTATEWP | INSTAGRAM: @FRESNOSTATEWP BULLDOG GAME NOTES: LION TEAM NOTES: • Fresno State is 0-2 on the road this season. • LMU is 14-8 (1-1 GCC), and 5-1 at home. • Fresno State is nationally ranked No. 15. • LMU is nationally ranked No. 13. • Fresno State is coming off a 0-2 week, falling to No. 18 Harvard in overtime 13-12 and • LMU is coming off a 1-1 week, falling to San Diego State 9-7 and defeating No. 22 No. 7 Pacific 16-8. Azusa Pacific 11-8. • Fresno State has been ranked within the Top 15 for eight consecutive weeks. • LMU was picked to finish second in the GCC Coaches’ Preseason Poll. • All of Fresno State’s losses this season were against ranked teams. • LMU has ranked wins over Long Beach State, UC San Diego, Wagner, Bucknell, Marist, • Fresno State is averaging 10.85 goals per game this season. Princeton and Azusa Pacific. • Sophomore Emily Nicholson leads the Bulldogs on the attack with 40 goals, averaging • Marialena Seletopoulou leads the Lions’ attack with a conference-best 61 goals. 2.00 goals per game. Nicholson has logged 14 multi-goal games this season. Nicholson • Sky Flores has recorded a conference-high 192 saves for a .529 save percentage in goal ranks No. 5 in the GCC in total goals. for the Lions. • Senior Mackenzie Richards has spent the majority of the minutes in goal for the • LMU returned 2018 All-GCC First Team selection Hana Vilanova, and All-GCC Second Bulldogs this season. Richards has recorded 112 saves and has a .390 save percentage. Team selection Morgan Molloy. Richards ranks No. 7 in the GCC in total saves. • LMU finished the 2018 season with an overall record of 18-15 (6-1 GCC). The Lions • Freshman Daphne Guevremont has been a major contributor for Fresno State this finished the regular season in second place. LMU fell to Pacific 10-6 in the champion- season. Guevremont has scored 27 goals, dished 17 assists, swiped 27 steals and logged ship game. 13 field blocks. • Last time Fresno State and Azusa Pacific faced off, the Cougars defeated the Bulldogs 9-7 in the first round of the 2018 GCC Tournament. Azusa Pacific owns the all-time series between the teams 2-0. NATIONALLY SPEAKING • Last time Fresno State and Loyola Marymount met, the Lions defeated the Bulldogs 9-3. After starting the 2019 season unranked, the Bulldogs have pushed their way up to No. 15 in the national rankings. The Bulldogs’ have reached as high as No. 13 this season. Fresno State has been ranked within the Top COUGAR TEAM NOTES: • Azusa Pacific is 14-11 (GCC), and 1-1 at home. 15 for eight consecutive weeks. • Azusa Pacific is nationally ranked No. 23. • Azusa Pacific is coming off an 11-8 loss against No. 12 Loyola Marymount. RANKED WINS • Azusa Pacific was picked to finish sixth in the GCC Coaches’ Preseason Poll. Fresno State has knocked off four ranked opponents this season. Fresno • Azusa Pacific has ranked wins over Wagner, San Diego State and Bucknell. • Mireia Tutusaus Alcaraz leads the Cougars’ with 30 goals, 18 assists and 18 steals this State, unranked at the time, upset No. 13 Indiana 12-7 on Jan. 20. A week season. later, then-No. 17 Fresno State defeated No. 11 Long Beach State 11-9 on • Olivia Lott has recorded 135 saves and a .394 save percentage in goal for the Cougars. Jan. 26. Most recently, No. 13 Fresno State defeated No. 15 Long Beach • Azusa Pacific returned 2018 All-GCC Honorable Mention selection Mar Pastor Alvarez, along with GCC All-Freshman Team honorees Hannah Bradley and Olivia Lott. and No. 21 Marist College in the 2019 Wolverine Invitational March 2-3. • Azusa Pacific finished the 2018 season with an overall record of 16-16 (3-4). 2018-19 SCHEDULE & RESULTS (8-12, 0-1 GCC) JAN 19 @ #16 UCSB^ L, 15-5 29 @ AZUSA PACIFIC* 3 P.M. 19 #1 USC^ L, 19-3 30 @ LMU* 12 P.M. 20 #13 INDIANA^ W, 12-7 APRIL 5 SAN DIEGO STATE* 12 P.M. 20 #11 MICHIGAN^ L, 11-6 6 CBU* 1 P.M. 26 @ #4 CAL^ L, 14-10 14 @ SANTA CLARA* 12 P.M. 26 #11 LBSU^ L, 11-9 19 @ CONCORDIA* 1:30 P.M. 27 #2 STANFORD^ L, 23-7 27 #3 UCLA^ L, 14-9 GCC CHAMPIONSHIPS FEB 2 @ #3 UCLA^ L, 14-9 APRIL 26-28 2 #7 HAWAI’I^ L, 19-8 FRESNO, CALIF. 8 FPU W, 23-4 23 CAL LUTHERAN^ W, 17-5 NOTES: 23 TORONTO^ W, 16-5 *GOLDEN COAST CONFERENCE GAME MARCH 2 SFU W, 17-7 ^TOURNAMENT GAMES 2 LBSU W, 14-11 ALL TIMES IN PACIFIC 3 MICHIGAN L, 20-8. HOME GAMES ARE BOLD 3 MARIST COLLEGE W, 14-6 REFERENCE: 13 GEORGE WASHINGTON W, 18-8 “Fresno State” (never: FSU, CSUF, Fresno State University, or just simply 15 MICHIGAN L, 17-7 “Fresno”); ABBREVIATION: Fresno St. or FS 19 HARVARD L, 13-12 (OT) 23 PACIFIC* L, 16-8 1 STORYLINES GAME RECAPS THREE BULLDOGS EARN GCC PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS ‘DOGS FINISH DAY ONE OF UCSB INVITE Fresno State leads the Golden Coast Conference with four GCC Player of the Fresno State kicked off its 2019 season at the UCSB Invitational on Saturday Week selections this season. Emily Nicholson was named the GCC Co-Player afternoon. The Bulldogs saw tough competition and learned valuable lessons, of the Week on Jan. 24. Nicholson scored a career-high five goals to lead the ultimately falling to #16 Santa Barbara 16-6 and #1 USC 19-3. Bulldogs to a 12-7 win over No. 13 Indiana. Trystyn Vuori was named the GCC Player of the Week on Jan. 31. Vuori led the Bulldogs to victory over the No. ‘DOGS SPLIT DAY TWO OF UCSB INVITE, EARN FIRST WIN 11 49ers, scoring a career-high four goals. This was the first time in program Fresno State split the second day of the 2019 UCSB Invitational, earning the history that Fresno State recorded back-to-back GCC Player of the Week first win of the season over #13 Indiana before falling to #11 Michigan. Emily Awards. Callie Woodruff was named the GCC Player of the Week on Feb. 14, Nicholson tied her career-high with five goals against the Hoosiers, and Mack- after she helped lead the Bulldogs to a 23-4 win over Fresno Pacific. Woodruff enzie Richards grabbed eight saves. In the loss to Michigan, Richards logged tied her career-high with five goals in the game, she also dished one assist and a season-high 11 saves. Freshman Daphne Guervemont and Emily Diacono swiped one steal. Woodruff scored a team-high 12 goals in three games, scored their first collegiate goals against the Wolverines. averaging three goals per game. She recorded a hat trick in Fresno State’s 17-7 victory over St. Francis, and a hat trick in the 14-11 victory over No. 15 Long FRESNO STATE WRAPS UP DAY ONE OF CAL CUP WITH A WIN Beach State. Woodruff tied her season-high with four goals in the 14-6 win Fresno State had a strong start to the 2019 Cal Cup. The #17 Bulldogs lost a over No. 21 Marist College. hard-fought battle to No. 4 Cal 14-10, before defeating #11 Long Beach State 11-9. Against Cal, Callie Woodruff led the Bulldogs with a season-high four goals. Mackenzie Richards grabbed 10 saves. Against the 49ers, Trystyn Vuori WELL-BALANCED OFFENSE led the Bulldogs on offense with a career-high four goals. Richards tabbed 10 Fresno State has four players with 20+ goals this season in Emily Nicholson saves. (40), Callie Woodruff (35), Trystyn Vuori (31) and Daphne Guevremont (27). ‘DOGS FINISH CAL CUP 2019 GCC PRESEASON POLL Fresno State finished the second day of the 2019 Cal Cup with losses to #2 The eight Golden Coast Conference women’s water polo head coaches Stanford 23-7and #3 UCLA 14-9. Sydney Coachman scored a career-high five tabbed reigning GCC champion the University of the Pacific to win the 2019 goals against the Bruins. regular season title. In just its second season of competition, Fresno State was picked to finish fourth. The poll put Pacific (48 votes, 5 first place votes), ‘DOGS CLOSE OUT UCLA MINI INVITE Loyola Marymount (43 votes, 2 first place votes) and San Diego State (38 Fresno State dropped both games of the UCLA Invite, against two top 10 votes) at the top of the conference. Fresno State (29 votes) and California teams, Saturday afternoon in the Spieker Aquatics Center. The No. 14 Bulldogs Baptist (27 votes) were slated to finish in the middle. Azusa Pacific (18 votes), fell to No. 3 UCLA 11-8 and No. 7 Hawai’i 19-8. Freshman Yesenia Preciado Santa Clara (14 votes) and Concordia (7 votes) filled the last three spots to scored her first collegiate goal against the Bruins, and freshman Sienna Jagiels- round out the preseason rankings. ki scored her first collegiate goal against the Rainbow Warriors. OVERVIEW NO. 15 FRESNO STATE OVERPOWERS FPU IN HOME OPENER, 23-4 The Bulldogs return 10 letterwinners, including their top two scorers and Fresno State defeated Fresno Pacific in its 2019 home opener 23-4 at the All-GCC selections in Emily Nicholsonand Callie Woodruff.