Week 9 Recap

Note, recap will also include Wednesday and Thursday's game as I did not preview them.

Women's Volleyball:
Despite sweeping their matches last week and remaining undefeated in Big West Conference play, Hawaii dropped a spot in the national polls to No. 9 despite beating Northridge and UC Davis on Thursday.  UCI went 1-2 (win against UCR, losses against Fullerton and SDSU) over the weekend despite Kristin Winkler racking up more digs.  She now has 1974 digs, 199 away from the Big West record.

Last Thursday, LBSU defeated UCR and Fullerton beat UCI; on Friday, Pacific swept Cal Poly, UCSB beat UC Davis and Hawaii beat Northridge.  Saturday brought two more sweeps and two regular victories, as UC Davis broomed the Mustangs, UCI swept rivals UCR, Fullerton beat rivals LBSU and UCSB took Pacific to five games and won.  Early games this week included an Aztec sweep of UCI on Tuesday, a Northridge five game duel with Pacific, and a late night victory for Hawaii.

Men's Soccer:
Last Friday, Sacramento State drew Cal Poly after a double overtime battle.  On Saturday, UC Davis assisted in a 2 game losing streak for the Gauchos, beating them 1-0, followed by a UCI win over Fullerton and an overtime Northridge victory over UCR.  Earlier this week, Cal Poly took down UC Davis and UCSB got back in the winners column against Sac State on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Fullerton won in a MACtion-style goalfest over Northridge 5-4 and UCR dominated UCI 4-1.

Women's Soccer:
On Friday, LBSU defeated UC Davis 1-0, Cal Poly and Northridge drew 2-2, UCSB beat Hawaii 1-0 and UCI beat Pacific 2-1.  Finally, on Saturday, Cal Poly dominated UC Davis 5-2, LBSU beat Pacific 2-0, Northridge defeated UCSB 1-0, UC Davis and UCI tied 1-1 and Fullerton beat UCR 1-0.

And now it's time for our weekly awards:

Big West Confidential Team of the Week: Team(s), the Northridge-Fullerton goalfest! 9 goals overall in the match, one winner, all in regulation.  Plus, it's obvious that neither one of these goalies are getting a DPOW this week...

Big West Confidential Offensive Player of the Week: Fullerton's Ian Ramos for scoring a hat-trick in 17 minutes...that, sir, is Messi-style.

Big West Confidential Defensive Player of the Week: Kristin Winkler for a furious 77 digs over the weekend to bring her within 199 digs of the Big West record.

Awards in bold mean unanimous decision.

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