Cal Begins 5-Sport Homestand In opposition to Lindenwood – Pac-12.com

LINDENWOOD LIONS (3-0, 0-0 ASU) AT CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (1-2, 0-0 PAC-12)
FRIDAY, FEB. 23, 2024 • 5 PM PST
CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUM (BERKELEY, CA)
CAL STARTS FIVE-GAME HOMESTAND FRIDAY AGAINST LINDENWOOD 
— Cal and Lindenwood are assembly for the second time at school historical past with the Lions returning a go to the Golden Bears made to St. Charles, Mo., final season when Cal was a 17-9 winner in each the debut of now second-year head coach Jennifer Wong and the primary Division I sport for Lindenwood. 
— Cal has opened the 2024 season at 1-2 with a house victory by Akron adopted by losses at Le Moyne and Cornell, whereas Lindenwood is 3-0 with house wins over San Diego State and Louisville sandwiching a street victory at Radford.
— Friday’s forecast in Berkeley requires principally cloudy skies, a excessive temperature of 63 levels and a low of 46, a ten% probability of precipitation, and winds from the east and northeast at 10 miles per hour.
— Cal’s five-game homestand from Feb. 23 – March 12 will likely be its longest stretch of consecutive regular-season house video games since taking part in 5 in a row at California Memorial Stadium from March 3-16, 2017, in addition to one shy of the varsity file of six straight at house to open 2007 (Feb. 22 – March 15, 2007).
LAST TIME OUT: CAL DROPS SECOND STRAIGHT IN 13-7 LOSS AT CORNELL 
— Cal dropped its second straight sport on an East Coast street journey with a 13-7 loss at Cornell on Saturday. The Bears had been defeated at Le Moyne, 9-6, on the opening sport of the journey Thursday.
— Saturday’s sport at Cornell began in a heavy snow squall and the sphere was blanketed with the white stuff simply minutes into the competition. The Massive Crimson jumped out to a 2-0 benefit earlier than Kennedy Mason and Kennedy Goss answered with back-to-back objectives to tie the rating with 3:25 to go within the opening interval. However Cornell scored the following three objectives and held on to not less than a two-goal lead for the rest of the competition.
— Isabel King and Addie Fischer every scored a pair of objectives to guide the Cal offense with King additionally choosing up an help.
— Cal was held scoreless within the third quarter and had simply three objectives by means of the sport’s first 45 minutes earlier than scoring 4 occasions within the fourth quarter.
— Cornell dominated statistically with benefits in photographs (26-13), photographs on purpose (19-10), floor balls (15-11) and draw controls (12-11). The Massive Crimson additionally made good on 17-of-21 clears, whereas Cal was 14-of-16. Cal dedicated 19 turnovers, whereas the Massive Crimson had 13.
OTHER NOTABLES
— Mason has taken over Cal’s staff lead in factors with 9. She is tied with Mya Wang for the staff’s lead in objectives (6) and with Kate Rothman in assists (3). Mason additionally paces the Bears with 16 photographs and 12 photographs on purpose.
— Goss continues to rack up the draw controls. With a team-high 17 within the first three video games of 2024, Goss ranks fourth within the Pac-12 and has elevated her Cal all-time main complete to 219.
— Cal has performed three goalkeepers within the first three video games in Callan Fritsch, Alicia Souliotis and Chloe Rand. Fritsch has began all three contests however Souliotis leads the staff whereas rating second within the Pac-12 in objectives in opposition to common (7.27) whereas additionally main the squad and rating fifth within the convention in save proportion (.467). Rand has a team-high .667 save proportion in her restricted 4:20 of motion. None have performed sufficient minutes to be listed amongst NCAA leaders (minimal of 60% of the staff’s minutes).
— Cal has had the identical beginning lineup in every of its first three contests.
— Cal’s 19 objectives in its season-opening 19-10 house win over Akron on Feb. 9 had been its most since a 20-10 house victory over Saint Mary’s on April 7, 2017.
— Jennifer Wong turned solely the second Cal head coach to win back-to-back season openers within the win over Akron.
— Cal’s foul totals have considerably dropped every sport (vs. Akron 21, at Le Moyne 9, at Cornell 4).
— Cal has performed 26 of its 33 gamers, together with 9 which have made their Cal debuts.
— Cal is taking part in its sixth and ultimate season within the Pac-12 earlier than formally turning into a member of the ACC on Aug. 2. The Pac-12 started sponsoring ladies’s lacrosse in 2018. The league’s 2020 schedule was canceled attributable to COVID. The Pac-12 added San Diego State and UC Davis for the 2024 season to deliver its complete members for girls’s lacrosse to eight. The groups will play a single-round robin regular-season format for the primary time after having confronted one another twice in league video games beforehand.
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