2015 GCC WOMEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • MAR. 11, 2015 GOLDEN COAST CONFERENCE WOMEN’S WATER POLO Mar. 11, 2015 • Release #8 Media Contact: John Shaffer • (310) 338-7643 • [email protected] Tourney Play Continues to Dominate Schedule Six of seven schools in action during Week Nine as Alyssa Diacono earns GCC Player of the Week honors for March 11. Alyssa Diacono LAST WEEK RESULTS San Diego St. Mar. 6 10:00 AM Chapman vs. Fresno Pacific 9-7 - # 2:00 PM Fresno Pacific @ Pomona-Pitzer 3-11 - # Mar. 7 9:00 AM Whittier vs. Fresno Pacific 12-7 - # 10:00 AM (17) Wagner College vs. (14) Pacific 6-4 - ^ 11:15 AM (19) Santa Clara vs. (17) UC Santa Barbara 5-6 - ^ 1:00 PM * (12) San Diego St. @ California Baptist 11-9 2:15 PM Occidental vs. Fresno Pacific 3-9 - # 3:30 PM (17) UCSB vs. (14) Pacific 6-7 - ^ 4:45 PM CSU East Bay vs. (19) Santa Clara 5-11 - ^ Mar. 8 10:15 AM (14) Pacific vs. (19) Santa Clara 8-5 - ^ 3:00 PM (14) Pacific @ (10) UC Davis 5-8 - ^ Mar. 9 7:00 PM (17) Wagner College @ (19) Santa Clara 12-4 Mar. 10 3:00 PM Bucknell @ California Baptist 5-11 6:30 PM George Washington @ California Baptist 7-15 #- Claremont Convergence - Pomona-Pitzer; ^ - Aggie Shootout - Davis, CA COMING UP... Mar. 11 1:00 PM Azusa Pacific @ CSU Bakersfield 4:00 PM Azusa Pacific vs. Wagner Mar. 12 7:00 PM Iona College @ California Baptist Mar. 13 10:15 AM V.M.I. vs. Fresno Pacific - 1 12:45 PM St. Francis @ California Baptist - 1 3:00 PM Pacific @ San Diego St. * 4:30 PM Iona College vs. Fresno Pacific - 1 7:00 PM Chapman @ California Baptist - 1 Mar. 14 7:45 AM Princeton vs. Pacific - 2 10:15 AM Macalester College @ California Baptist - 1 10:15 AM Wagner College @ San Diego St. - 2 11:30 AM St. Francis vs. Fresno Pacific - 1 he theme of tournaments continues to dominate the 12:00 PM UC Irvine @ LMU - 2 Golden Coast Conference heading into Week Nine of the 2:00 PM Bucknell @ San Diego St. 3:15 PM Claremont vs. Fresno Pacific - 1 T2015 season. However, another key conference battle will 4:30 PM Indiana vs. Pacific - 2 highlight the schedule, this time featuring a pair of top-20 pro- 5:45 PM Whittier @ San Diego St. - 2 grams. On Friday, 12th-ranked San Diego State will host 15th- 7:00 PM V.M.I. @ California Baptist - 1 - 2 ranked Pacific in the lone GCC game on the week. Mar. 15 8:00 AM Bucknell vs. Pacific 9:15 AM Indiana @ San Diego St. - 2 4:00 PM Princeton @ San Diego St. - 2 Azusa Pacific began the week with a trip to CSU Bakersfield to Mar. 16 12:00 PM Harvard vs. Fresno Pacific face the Roadrunners and Wagner in the doubleheader today, 5:30 PM Fresno Pacific @ UC Davis Wednesday. California Baptist will then host Iona on Thursday Mar. 17 7:00 PM Harvard @ Pacific Mar. 19 4:00 PM San Diego St. @ LMU * before kicking off a full weekend of tournament action. 1- Lancer Invitational - CBU; 2 - Aztec Invitational - SDSU The Lancers will host their own invitational Friday and Satur- day, and it will feature fellow GCC rival Fresno Pacific. Following the conference showdown, both Pacific and San Diego State will play in the Aztec Invitational on Satuday and Sunday. LMU, ranked 13th nationally, will host their first home game on Sat- urday, taking on fifth-ranked UC Irvine. Fresno Pacific will then travel to UC Davis to take on the host Aggies and Harvard on Monday. Pacific will then host Harvard on Tuesday, March 17. San Diego State picked up a key GCC road win last week over GCC WATER POLO • WEEKLY UPDATE • WWW.GCCWATERPOLO.COM 2015 GCC WOMEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • MAR. 11, 2015 Women’s Collegiate Top-20 Poll 2015 GCC Women’s Water Polo Records (As of Mar. 11, 2015) Week #8 - Mar. 11, 2015 School GCC Pct. Overall Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak Rk Team LW Pts. San Diego St. 2-0 1.000 7-8 .467 1-2 2-1 4-5 Won 1 1 UCLA 1 100 LMU 0-0 .000 13-5 .722 0-0 2-1 11-4 Won 4 2 Stanford University 2 95 Santa Clara 0-0 .000 12-8 .600 4-2 1-1 7-5 Lost 2 3 USC 3 90 Azusa Pacific 0-0 .000 7-8 .467 0-0 1-1 6-7 Won 2 4 California 4 85 Pacific 0-0 .000 6-7 .462 1-0 0-2 5-5 Lost 1 5 UC Irvine 5 80 California Baptist 0-1 .000 9-8 .529 6-3 0-1 3-4 Won 2 6 Arizona State University 7 74 Fresno Pacific 0-1 .000 5-13 .278 2-3 1-2 2-8 Won 1 7 CSU Northridge 8 68 8 University of Hawaii 6 67 Julia Peters 9 San Jose State 9 61 Santa Clara 10 Princeton University 11 52 11 UC Davis 10 49 12 San Diego State 12 45 13 Loyola Marymount 13 37 14 Long Beach State 15 33 15 University of the Pacific 14 30 16 Indiana University 16 25 17 Wagner College 17 (T) 24 18 UC Santa Barbara 17 (T) 18 19 Santa Clara University 19 9 20T University of Michigan RV 6 20T UC San Diego 20 6 RV CSU Bakersfield RV 2 RV Pomona-Pitzer NR 1 California Baptist and leading the way was sophomore Alyssa Diacono, who has been named the GCC Player of the Week for March 11. The sophomore scored a season-high three goals on three shot attempts to help No. 12 SDSU beat California Baptist on the 2014 GCC PLAYER OF THE WEEK road, 11-9, to improve to 2-0 in GCC action. She also added a steal and drew a team- Jan. 21 Mackenzie Beck - LMU high three ejections. The Aztecs scored on two of the power-play opportunities. Jan. 28 Ivana Castro - LMU The Broncos faced a tough weekend at the Aggie Shootout going 1-2 and falling to No. 17 Wagner at home on Monday night. Despite the tough competition, junior Julia Feb. 4 Elizabeth Anderson - SCU Peters found the back of the net a total of 11 times in four games. Peters scored five of Feb. 11 Anique Hermann - SDSU the 11 goals in the Broncos lone win over the CSU East Bay Pioneers and two goals in the close game against UC Santa Barbara. Peters also tallied three assist, five steals, Feb. 18 Michele Relton - PAC four earned ejections and three field blocks. Feb. 25 Laura Lopez - LMU Sydni Estrella - SCU Fresno Pacific finished 1-3 at the Convergence Tourney last weekend despite five goals and six assists from Mikayla Scheer. The Sunbirds fell on day one to Chapman, 9-7, and Mar. 4 Ashley Taylor - APU co-host Pomona-Pitzer, 10-4. Scheer recorded a hat trick on the day and goalkeeper Kelsie Harvey recorded her 1,000 career save. On Saturday, FPU fell to Whittier 9-3 and Mar. 11 Alyssa Diacono - SDSU ended the tourney with a win against Occidental, 9-3. Scheer scored once and dished out three assists for the Sunbirds in the win, while Courtney Hall tallied 12 saves in the cage. The Sunbirds are back in action this weekend at the Lancer Invitational. California Baptist University battled on defense in its first Golden Coast Conference game of the season on Saturday March 7,2015 against No. 12 San Diego State. The Lancers couldn’t follow through to secure the win, falling to the Aztecs in a tightly- contested 11-9 loss. Senior Mallory Montano has one goal, two assists and three steals during the match. GCC WATER POLO • WEEKLY UPDATE • WWW.GCCWATERPOLO.COM 2015 GCC WOMEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • MAR. 11, 2015 2015 STAT LEADERS GOALS ASSISTS PER GAME SAVES PER GAME Rk NO. PLAYER SCHOOL YR GP GOALS GPG Rk NO. PLAYER SCHOOL YR GP Asts APG Rk NO. PLAYER SCHOOL YR GP Svs SvPG 1. 2 Julia Peters SCU JR 19 39 2.05 1. 11 Anna Kertes PAC SR 9 16 1.78 1. 1 Michele Relton PAC SR 7.75 89 11.48 2. 10 Taylor Whitney APU SR 15 38 2.53 2. 10 Brydie Pye PAC SR 9 15 1.67 2. 1 Courtney Hall FPU SO 6.50 68 10.46 3. 5 Hannah Evans CBU JR 13 34 2.62 3. 9 Alba Espinar APU JR 14 21 1.50 3. 1 Kelsie Harvey FPU SR 12.50 120 9.60 4. 2 Laura Lopez LMU SR 18 31 1.72 4. 11 Elle Surber SCU JR 20 28 1.40 4. 1 Sydni Estrella SCU JR 17.00 162 9.53 5. 11 Elle Surber SCU JR 20 30 1.50 5. 17 Kiana Etrata LMU SO 18 23 1.28 5. 1 Meghan Rowland CBU JR 13.75 124 9.02 8 Mackenzie Beck LMU SR 18 30 1.67 6. 6 Courtney Folsom APU SR 15 18 1.20 6. 1 Jordan White LMU SR 15.50 136 8.77 7. 3 Elizabeth Anderson SCU JR 16 27 1.69 7. 10 Ivana Castro LMU JR 18 21 1.17 7. 1 Katie Margot APU JR 12.00 80 6.67 8. 14 Ashleigh Bandimere SCU SR 20 24 1.20 8.