2016 GCC WOMEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • FEB. 17, 2016 GOLDEN COAST CONFERENCE WOMEN’S WATER POLO Feb. 10, 2016 • Release #03 Media Contact: John Shaffer • (310) 338-7643 • [email protected] ANOTHER LIGHT FEBRUARY WEEK California Baptist’s Hannah Evans earns GCC Player of the Week honors as five teams will play in 10 games this week. LAST WEEK’S RESULTS Feb. 12 11:00 AM (23) California Baptist @ (14) Princeton - 1 10-12 4:00 PM Iona College vs. (23) California Baptist - 1 12-14 Feb. 13 7:15 AM (15) Harvard vs. (23) California Baptist - 1 8-4 8:00 AM (RV) Santa Clara vs. (2) USC - 2 2-20 9:00 AM Villanova University vs. (23) California Baptist - 1 5-12 9:45 AM (18) San Diego St. vs. (16) LMU - 2 4-7 1:50 PM (17) Indiana vs. (RV) Santa Clara - 2 7-4 1:50 PM Sonoma State vs. (18) San Diego St. - 2 3-15 3:00 PM (1) UCLA vs. (16) LMU - 2 14-7 Feb. 14 8:30 AM (9) UC Irvine vs. (16) LMU - 2 8-5 9:45 AM (25) CSU East Bay @ (RV) Santa Clara - 2 7-4 11:00 AM (22) Long Beach St. vs. (18) San Diego St. - 2 7-8 1:45 PM (11) UC Santa Barbara vs. (16) LMU - 2 11-15 1:45 PM Sonoma State vs. (RV) Santa Clara - 2 5-3 4:30 PM (17) Indiana vs. (18) San Diego St. - 2 8-6 1 - Princeton Invitational 2 -Triton Invitational COMING UP THIS WEEK Feb. 19 10:00 AM Grove City College vs. Azusa Pacific 1:00 PM Azusa Pacific @ California Lutheran 3:00 PM (RV) Santa Clara @ (10) San Jose State Feb. 20 11:00 AM CUI @ La Verne 10:00 AM (21) Long Beach St. vs. Azusa Pacific 11:30 AM (5) California vs. (12) Pacific - Aggie Shootout 1:00 PM Fresno Pacific @ (RV) CSU East Bay 2:00 PM Azusa Pacific @ Redlands HANNAH EVANS Feb. 21 12:30 PM (24) CSU Bakersfield vs. (12) Pacific - Aggie Shootout California Baptist 1:00 PM Fresno Pacific @ (RV) Sonoma State COMING UP... LOS ANGELES - Another light week awaits the Golden Coast Conference as the season wraps up the first month of play. Only four teams were in 2015 GCC Coaches’ Poll: action last week and five will hit the pool this week. 1. Pacific - 43 points (3 first place votes) LMU - 43 points (2) Pacific, who is ranked 12th in the latest national poll, will play a pair 3. San Diego St. - 41points (3) of ranked teams in No. 5 Cal and 24th-ranked CSU Bakersfield at the 4. California Baptist - 32 points UC Davis Aggie Shootout. Azusa Pacific will play four games, including 5. Santa Clara - 25 points 21st-ranked Long Beach State. Meanwhile, Fresno Pacific will travel to 6. Azusa Pacific - 20 points CSU East Bay and Sonoma State, both of whom are receiving votes this 7. Fresno Pacific - 12 points week in the national poll. Rounding out the action is Santa Clara travel- 8. Concordia - 8 points ing cross town to face No. 10 San Jose State and Concordia traveling to La Verne. Last week saw four teams in two tournaments. LMU, San Diego State and Santa Clara were at the UCSD Triton Invitational while California Baptist was at the Princeton Invitational. Earning GCC Player of the Week honors for Feb. 17 is senior Hannah Evans of California Baptist University. Competing in four games at the GCC WATER POLO • WEEKLY UPDATE • WWW.GCCWATERPOLO.COM 2016 GCC WOMEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • FEB. 17, 2016 Women’s Collegiate Top-20 Poll 2016 GCC Women’s Water Polo Records (As of Feb. 17, 2016) Week #5 - Feb. 17, 2016 School GCC Pct. Overall Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak Rk Team LW Pts. California Baptist 0-0 .000 7-5 .583 2-0 0-2 5-3 Won 1 1 USC 2 100 Fresno Pacific 0-0 .000 2-2 .500 0-1 1-0 1-1 Won 1 2 UCLA 1 96 LMU 0-0 .000 4-6 .400 0-0 0-1 4-5 Won 1 3 University of California 3 92 4 Stanford University 4 89 San Diego St. 0-0 .000 3-5 .375 0-0 0-1 3-4 Lost 1 5 UC Davis 7 (T) 80 Pacific 0-0 .000 4-8 .333 0-1 0-1 4-6 Won 1 6 (T) Michigan 6 78 Santa Clara 0-0 .000 2-4 .333 0-1 2-0 0-3 Lost 4 6 (T) Hawaii 7 (T) 78 Azusa Pacific 0-0 .000 2-6 .250 0-0 0-0 2-6 Won 2 8 Arizona State 5 74 CUI 0-0 .000 0-4 .000 0-1 0-1 0-2 Lost 4 9 UC Irvine 9 66 10 (T) Hartwick College 12 61 10 (T) San Jose State 10 61 12 University of the Pacific 13 52 13 UC San Diego 19 (T) 48 14 (T) Princeton 14 46 14 (T) Loyola Marymount 16 46 16 Harvard University 15 42 17 UC Santa Barbara 11 37 18 Indiana University 17 36 19 San Diego State 18 29 20 Wagner College 19 (T) 26 21 Long Beach State 22 21 22 (T) California Baptist 23 12 22 (T) Marist College 21 12 NIKOLE FERRARI 24 CSU Bakersfield 24 10 San Diego State 25 CSUN 25 (T) 6 RV Bucknell University 25 (T) 2 Princeton tournament, Evans managed to score 14 goals and drew 10 ejections. The RV Iona College NR 1 two-meter star also collected five steals and added one assist over the course of the RV Santa Clara University RV 1 tournament. Evans helped the Lancers to two wins against Iona College and Villanova. RV Sonoma State University NR 1 In CBU’s 14-12 win over Iona, Evans bagged five crucial goals to seal the win. RV CSU East Bay 25 (T) 1 LMU, who is ranked 14th in the national poll, finished the Triton Invitational in seventh 2016 GCC PLAYER OF THE WEEK place thanks to wins over No. 18 SDSU and No. 11 UC Santa Barbara. The Lions also fell to No. 1 team in the national for the second straight week, this time UCLA, as well Feb. 3 Karolina Hlavata Pacific as ninth-ranked UC Irvine. They have now played eight straight games against the top- Feb. 10 Erica Marquez 20 teams in the country. Azusa Pacific Feb. 17 Hannah Evans Leading the way was freshman goalie Sky Flores with 27 saves and four steals. Fellow California Baptist freshman Hana Vilanova added six goals and four assists. Senior Bridgette Alvarez Feb. 24 anchored the Lions offense in the middle, scoring eight goals with 12 ejections drawn. Mar. 2 Alvarez is third on the team in goals with 13 while Vilanova is second on the team in total points with 22, scoring 15 goals and seven assists. Ivana Castro leads the Lions Mar. 9 with 16 goals and 10 assists, good for 26 points. Mar. 16 For San Diego State, senior driver Nikole Ferrari had three goals, a team-high eight Mar. 23 assists and a team-high nine steals, while drawing two ejections and field blocking a team-high three shots at the Triton Invitational. She assisted on a team-high two goals Mar. 30 and had two steals against LMU. She added a team-high-tying two goals in the win over Sonoma State, with one assist and a team-high four steals. She was responsible Apr. 6 for four goals (1 goal, 3 assists) and two steals in the 8-7 win over Long Beach State, Apr. 13 adding a team-high two assists and one steal vs. Indiana. They finished ninth at the Triton Invitational. Apr. 20 The Aztecs, LMU and CBU are all bye this week. Apr. 27 GCC WATER POLO • WEEKLY UPDATE • WWW.GCCWATERPOLO.COM 2016 GCC WOMEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • FEB. 17, 2016 AZUSA PACIFIC (2-6, 0-0 GCC) CALIFORNIA BAPTIST (7-5, 0-0 GCC) Day Time Opponent Score Record Day Time Opponent Score Record Jan. 23-24 at UCSB Winter Invitational - Santa Barbara, CA Jan. 23-24 at UCSB Winter Invitational - Santa Barbara, CA Jan. 22 11:00 AM vs. (20) Wagner College L-6-12 0-1 Jan. 22 12:15 PM vs. (19) CSUN W-10-5 1-0 3:15 PM vs. (19) CSUN L-12-14 0-2 5:45 PM vs. (20) Wagner College L-10-11 (OT) 1-1 Jan. 23 11:15 AM vs. (21) UC San Diego L-7-15 0-3 Jan. 23 12:30 PM @ (14) UC Santa Barbara L-4-10 1-2 3:30 PM vs. (12) Michigan L-6-15 1-3 4:30 PM vs. (5) UC Irvine L-10-15 0-4 Jan. 30 CBU Mini Tournament Jan. 30 10:30 AM vs. Whittier L-11-13 0-5 Jan. 30 11:45 AM vs. (21) CSU Bakersfield W-12-9 2-3 4:45 PM vs. (21) CSU Bakersfield L-9-10 0-6 7:15 PM vs. Redlands W-18-3 3-3 Feb. 6 12:00 PM vs. Pomona-Pitzer W-12-9 1-6 Feb. 6 at Whittier Open 6:00 PM vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps W-10-3 2-6 Feb. 6 10:30 AM vs. Occidental W-16-3 4-3 Feb. 19 10:00 AM vs. Grove City College Thousand Oaks, CA 4:30 PM vs.