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The young starlet [Alex Morgan] has been enjoying a supremely productive 2012. She’s tallied her last 14 goals in this calendar year alone. Oh, and they’ve all come in just 12 appearances.
She has now scored 13 of the USWNT’s last 28 goals.
And here’s the most impressive statistic yet. If Morgan continues on this pace, she’ll have the third most prolific year of any USWNT striker in the program’s history.
http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/28/tracking-alex-morgans-record-setting-goal-tally/ Tracking Alex Morgan’s record-setting goal tally
NCAA Women's Tennis: Singles Semifinal Open Thread
by LEastCoastBears on May 27, 2012 12:25 PM EDT
in California Golden Bears Olympic Sports
on California Golden Blogs
When: 9 AM PST on Sunday, May 27th
Online video and results: link provided by host Univ. of Georgia
via grfx.cstv.com
Even though the likely future Cal Hall of Famer (and last year's NCAA Singles Champion), Jana Juricova saw her Cal career comes to an end with losses in both the Singles Quarterfinal and the Doubles Quarterfinal (with Zsofi Susanyi) on Saturday, a Bear still plays on in the Singles Semifinal on Sunday.
Freshmen and 13th ranked Zsofi Susanyi will look to continue her run in the Singles tournament by taking on 5th seed and 5th ranked Mallory Burdette from Stanford. GO BEARS!
Cal Women's Crew: NCAA Championship Grand Finals Open Thread
by LEastCoastBears on May 27, 2012 12:25 PM EDT
in California Golden Bears Olympic Sports
on California Golden Blogs
Online Stream: Via NCAA
Online results: Meet Results
And it comes down to this, three final races to determine the whether the top ranked Cal Bears will bring home the 3rd NCAA Championship in program history (and the 3rd NCAA Team Championship of the season for Cal). Bears have avoided any letdowns on Friday and Saturday to advance all 3 boats (V4, JV8, and V8) to the respective Grand Finals today. Both V4 and JV8 won their heat on Saturday (nice recap of Saturday's action here), while the V8 grabbed the very important last Grand Final berth in their heat by finishing 3rd.
"ROW" ON YOU BEARS! (courtesy of fiatlux)
via www.pac-12.org
Schedule of Events (in pacific time)
7:25 a.m. Fours Grand Final (places 1-6) Lake Mercer Division I (Washington, Virginia, Ohio State, Cal, Yale, Princeton)
8:15 a.m. II Eights Grand Final (places 1-6) Lake Mercer Division I (UCLA, Ohio State, Cal, Michigan, Princeton, Virginia)
9:05 a.m. I Eights Grand Final (places 1-6) Lake Mercer Division I (Washington, Princeton, Virginia, Michigan, USC, Cal)
Only Cal, Virginia, and Princeton have boats in all three grand finals! Review of scoring and break down of possible scenarios (why it's not necessarily just a three school race) after the jump.
Cal Women's Crew: NCAA Championship Day Two Open Thread
by LEastCoastBears on May 26, 2012 8:30 AM EDT
in California Golden Bears Olympic Sports
on California Golden Blogs
Online Stream: Via NCAA
Online results: Meet Results
After a successful first day at the NCAA Championship, the top ranked (and Pac-12 winning) Cal Women's Crew will have all 3 boats looking for a berth in the grand final on Sunday. Out of the two heats for each race on Saturday, the Bears happen to be placed in the first heat for all 3 events. Go Bears!
On Friday, the I Eights team finished 2nd in their heat (behind Ohio State) to "lose" a race for the first time since mid-April. The Bears will look to get back to its winning way (and at least a top 3 finish to advance to the grand final). Both the II Eights and the Fours won their heat. The Cal Fours are, in fact, undefeated in 2012. Roll on you Bears!
Preview from some internet rowing experts: (row2k)
Cal's team is quick across the board, and owns the top seed in both the 2V8 and V4 after winning all three NCAA events at PAC-12s even against some stiff lower boat competition. The question with the Bears might be whether they can win a title on the strength of the two lower boats taking wins before the V8's take the course.
Schedule of events: (all time in Pacific time)
Saturday:
6 a.m. I Eights Semifinals Lake Mercer Division I (Cornell, Harvard, USC, Virginia, Cal, Stanford)
6:15 a.m. I Eights Semifinals Lake Mercer Division I
6:30 a.m. II Eights Semifinals Lake Mercer Division I (Wisconsin, Brown, Virginia, Cal, Princeton, USC)
6:45 a.m. II Eights Semifinals Lake Mercer Division I
7 a.m. Fours Semifinals Lake Mercer Division I (Notre Dame, Harvard, Washington, Cal, Yale, Michigan)
7:15 a.m. Fours Semifinals Lake Mercer Division I
Sunday:
7:25 a.m. Fours Grand Final (places 1-6) Lake Mercer Division I
8:15 a.m. II Eights Grand Final (places 1-6) Lake Mercer Division I
9:05 a.m. I Eights Grand Final (places 1-6) Lake Mercer Division I
Cal Women's Crew: NCAA Championship Day One Open Thread
by LEastCoastBears on May 25, 2012 8:30 AM EDT
in California Golden Bears Olympic Sports
on California Golden Blogs
Online Stream: Via NCAA
The second Cal Women's sport to win a team National Championship, after those trailblazing softballers in 2002, were the Cal Women's Crew who went back to back in 2005 and 2006. The second of which was won at Lake Mercer in West Windsor, NJ, the site of this year's championship. The #1 Bears look to make 3 both the number of Women's Rowing Championships won but also the number team championships won this year (after the two swimming and diving wins this year). GO BEARS!
According to the Women's Crew Bear Blog, the team has been on the East Coast for a few days now (and training in Philadelphia). In winning the Pac-12 conference championship, all three boats won their races. The Varsity Four has a perfect season thus far, so does the Freshmen Eight (not sure how they are a part of this weekend's competition). The Cal Varsity Eight has won 6 consecutive races.
How the National Championship is determined: Unlike Men's crew (not an official NCAA championship for supposedly their unwillingness to adopt this scoring system), where the winner of the Varsity 8 is the National Champ, Women's crew reward the National Championship based on the results of all 3 races (Varsity 4, Second Varsity 8, and the Varsity 8 (tiebreaker if teams finish with the same total team points)).
Cal result for Day 1: via Cal Women's Crew twitter
Good day first day at NCAA's. WV8 second to Ohio State. W2V8 and WV4 win heats. All boats straight to semi's. Big day tomorrow. Go Bears!
Schedule of events:
Friday:
9 a.m. I Eights Heat 1 Lake Mercer Division I
9:15 a.m. I Eights Heat 2 Lake Mercer Division I
9:30 a.m. I Eights Heat 3 Lake Mercer Division I
9:45 a.m. II Eights Heat 1 Lake Mercer Division I
10 a.m. II Eights Heat 2 Lake Mercer Division I
10:15 a.m. II Eights Heat 3 Lake Mercer Division I
10:30 a.m. Fours Heat 1 Lake Mercer Division I
10:45 a.m. Fours Heat 2 Lake Mercer Division I
11 a.m. Fours Heat 3 Lake Mercer Division I
Cal Women's Tennis vs. UCLA (NCAA Quarterfinal) Open Thread
by LEastCoastBears on May 19, 2012 12:27 PM EDT
in California Golden Bears Olympic Sports
on California Golden Blogs
When: 9 AM PT
Online Stream: NCAA (Univ. of Georgia - host of NCAA Tennis Championship)
9th seed Cal Bears take on the familiar UCLA (top seed) in the Quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tennis Team Championship. This season Cal and UCLA have split two duals: UCLA won 4-3 in Westwood (but the Bears were without top singles player and 2011 NCAA Singles Champion, Jana Juricova) and Cal won 4-3 in Berkeley. The rubber match will determine who advance to what has become the Pac-12 half of the bracket as the winner will take on the winner of the USC and Stanford dual in the National Semifinal.
Go Bears!
via grfx.cstv.com
Cal Men's Tennis vs. Virginia (Round of 16) Open Thread
by LEastCoastBears on May 18, 2012 3:38 PM EDT
on California Golden Blogs
When: 1:00 pm PT
Online Stream: NCAA (Univ. of Georgia - host of the NCAA tennis championship)
via caltvsports.files.wordpress.com
The 14th seed Cal Men's Tennis team face a tough opponent in the 2nd seed Virginia this afternoon in the NCAA Round of 16. After a sensational come from behind victory over Texas Tech (behind some inspired battle from the McLachlan brothers Ben and Riki), the Bears will look to pull off a big upset over the better ranked Virginia Cavaliars squad.
The Bears are lead by 37th ranked sophomore Ben McLachlan in number 1 singles (26-11 record for the season). Two other ranked singles players are the 58th ranked senior Nick Andrews and 70th ranked senior Carlos Cueto. Among doubles, the Bears have the 6th ranked combo of Andrews and junior Christoffer Konigsfeidt. Cueto and McLachlan are also ranked (66th).
Ryan Anderson will be in the NBA All-Star 3 Point Shoot-out
Ryan Anderson will compete in the NBA All-Star 3 Point Shoot-out and be the hometown favorite in Orlando. Anderson is currently leading the league in 3 pointers made and will hopefully do better than that Kevin Love guy in the 3 Point shoot out.
Another interesting note from this article: apparently Ryan Anderson is dating some reality TV/swimsuit model (and being followed around by TMZ).
WIlson Ramos Found Safe by Authorities
good news everybody
Cal field hockey celebrate being NorPac Champions (and the automatic berth to the NCAA tournament) after defeating Stanford 1-0.
Congrats to the Field Hockey Bears!
Cal Volleyball defeated Colorado in 4 sets
In 4 sets, Cal finished off Colorado by the score of 25-23, 20-25, 25-15, 25-20.
Even though Colorado only had 5 wins this season coming into this match, they also managed to take a set from Stanford earlier this week.
Cal do get their first road sweep into the mountain part of the Pac-12 schedule (Utah and Colorado), despite the matches being a lot closer than what one would expect based on the season records.
Adrienne Gehan was back to playing front row today but her stats (3 kills and 3 errors) indicated that she has not completely get back to form just yet.
Bears travel to the Washington schools next week.
Go Bears!
Cal's Valerie Arioto stars for the USWNT in World Cup of Softball
by LEastCoastBears on Jul 24, 2011 1:43 PM EDT
on California Golden Blogs
Another weekend, another Cal woman athlete leading the US Women's National Team to a possible World Cup title. Catch the US take on Japan for the World Cup (sounds familiar to anyone) on Monday night at 9 PM. The game will both be broadcasted on ESPN2 (as well as ESPN3.com).
Arioto circling the bases after hitting a grandslam to break the tie in US's 8-4 win over Japan. via s3.amazonaws.com
Valerie Arioto, Cal Senior 1B/P (who is just playing 1B for the USWNT this summer) had the game winning hits in US's last two victories in the round robin round, including a must-win over Japan. First on Friday night, her two-out triple broke a 2-2 tie and led to a 5-2 win for Team USA over Australia. With US fallen to Canada earlier and needing a win over Japan to have a chance to make it to the championship game on Monday night, Arioto blasted a sixth inning grand slam to give the US a 8-4 win over Japan. Replays for these games are available online on ESPN3.
On Sunday, Team USA defeated Great Britain 10-0 (Arioto contributed with a homer) to clinch the number one spot in seed play (Championship game). US will look to defeat powerhouse Japan for the 2011 World Cup of Softball.
via s3.amazonaws.com
Unlike Alex Morgan, Valerie's Cal career is not over yet since a season ending injury this past season gave her a medical redshirt. With her performance in this World Cup, it's clear that she is back healthy. I had the chance to briefly chat with Valerie about a month ago when the USWNT played an exhibition double header at Bowie, MD. She is another great Cal student athlete that is worthy of our support. Cal fans can and should try to catch her (and the rest of what should be a very exciting Cal softball team) play in person next fall.
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Yet another Alex Morgan article
More ESPN love on Alex Morgan to promote the Women's World Cup.
Go Bears!
Sort of Cal story on the Yahoo! Sports main page
It's more of a story about Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds' infamous trainer, and apparently mentor and trainer to Cal's very own Tony Renda. It's an interesting read.
Yet another Cal National Champ! - Mike Morrison Wins NCAA Decathlon Title
The stellar year in Cal athletics continue with another individual national championship. Congratulation to Senior Mike Morrison.
Go Bears!
Congrats to Jana Juricova - NCAA Women's Singles Champion
Juricova took down Stacey Tan of Stanford, 6-0, 7-6 (2).
"The third-year Golden Bear delivered a little bit of history repeating as she became the second player from Cal to win an NCAA singles crown, and did so at the same site as the last champion; Susie Babos in 2006."
DUI charged dismissed against D.Lowe
Maybe he wasn't racing while drunk after all...or he just has a really good lawyer.
Cal Women's Water Polo began quest for National Title
#2 seed Cal defeated the #7 seed UCSD by the score of 13-5 in what amounts to a tune up in the first round of the NCAA championship.
Just 2 wins away from a National Championship, Cal will take on UCLA (Cal is 2-1 against UCLA this season, including the win at the MPSF final) at 6 PM EST/3 PM PST tomorrow, Saturday 5/14. NCAA.com should again have the stream.
GO BEARS!
Cal Senior Setter Carli Lloyd = AVCA National Player of the Year
A very well deserved award for the clear floor and locker room leader of this year's squad. Regardless of the outcome on Saturday night, us Bear fans will miss seeing Carli play in the Cal uniform.
Go Bears!!!
Watch #2 Cal Men's Water Polo in NCAA Semifinal
Semifinal against Loyola Marymount scheduled to start at 6 PM EST/3 PM PST. Winner takes on U$C tomorrow.
Cal Men's Water Polo does make tourney
Despite missing out on the automatic bid (by dropping the MPSF semi-final game to 'Furd), #1 ranked Cal does get credit for winning the MPSF regular season and claimed the only at-large bid in the 4 team tournament (thank goodness that U$C did defeat 'Furd in 3OT of the MPSF finals).
Those in the area should head out Spieker on Dec 4th to see Cal take on Loyola Marymount. This is probably Cal's best chance to win a championship this fall.
Former Cal pitcher Brandon Morrow with a near no-hitter
Brandon Morrow (now with the Toronto Blue Jays) retired 26 hitters before giving up a hit against the Tampa Bay Rays. He ended his one hit shutout with an impressive 17 strikeouts for the day.
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