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Sports briefs

Monday March 26, 2001

Cal deals St. Joe’s their first loss 

PHILADELPHIA – The University of California handed St. Joseph’s University its first loss of the season in women’s lacrosse action on Sunday afternoon.  

California took an early 2-0 lead but the Hawks responded with two goals by freshman Amie Schmoltze to tie the game with 22:36 left in the first half. California would then score five of the next six goals to take a 7-3 advantage at the half.  

The Hawks found their offense in the second half, scoring twice in the first six minutes to cut the Bears lead to three at 8-5. California (6-3) responded scoring the next two goals to extend their lead to 10-5 with 18 minutes left in regulation. SJU once again tried to make a comeback, scoring twice in a three-minute span to cut the lead to 10-7 at the 11:00 mark. The Bears proved to be too strong as they scored four goals in the last 10 minutes to seal the victory.  

California goalie Eden Coelho was the thorn in the Hawks side as she turned back 19 shots.  

 

Bears finish last at Pac-10 meet 

SEATTLE - The sixth-ranked Stanford Cardinal upset top-ranked UCLA to win the 2001 Pac-10 Women’s Gymnastics Championship at Washington’s Bank of America Arena. The Cardinal posted a score of 197.850, while UCLA, the two-time defending Pac-10 Champions, scored 197.800. Stanford’s score was the highest ever at the Pac-10 Championship meet. 

The Bears put up an uncharacteristically low team scores on the bars and the balance beam. Cal totaled a 47.350 points on the bars, the lowest scores since its opening meet at Denver (36.500) and a 37.900 on the beams, a season low. Bear gymnasts placed no higher then No. 10 in any event. Although junior Lindsay Baker tallied a career high of 39.250 in the all-arounds, it was only good for 10th place at the meet Saturday.  

 

No. 4 water polo gets two wins 

The No. 4-ranked women’s water polo team (12-6, 5-2 MPSF) grabbed two convincing victories today at the Spieker Aquatics Complex. Cal first knocked out Pacific, 16-6, before taking on the UC Santa Cruz Slugs. The last time Cal and UC Santa Cruz met was March 26, 1997, when the Bears defeated the Slugs 27-1, the largest margin of victory and the highest recorded score in Cal history as a varsity sport. Cal would make history again today, as they shut out the Slugs, 17-0, the first shutout all season for the Bears and the second in school history as a varsity sport. The only other shutout dates back four years when the Bears defeated Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 21-0, at the Stanford Invitational, March 8, 1997.