Maroon and Gray Women’s Soccer Prepares for SCIAC Postseason Tournament
The University of Redlands women's soccer team enters the 2011 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Postseason Tournament as the No. 4 seed and faces off against the top-seeded Cal Lutheran Regals on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in Thousand Oaks.
Tickets are required for Thursday's match, with all employees and students of member SCIAC schools admitted free with identification. Children 12 and under are also free. All other general admission tickets are $5 per person.
Directions to the field are available at
http://www.callutheran.edu/neighbors/guide/
Fans unable to attend the game may follow the action via live webcast at
http://www.clusports.com/video/
Redlands (10-5-1, 7-5-0 SCIAC) enters the tournament for the fifth straight season, last winning the event as the fourth seed in 2010 against Occidental College by a score of 1-0 in double overtime. The Maroon and Gray advanced to the final by upsetting Cal Lutheran in the semifinal round, 2-0.
Earlier this season, the Bulldogs and Regals squared off on two occasions with Cal Lutheran taking home both victories. In the first match-up, UR fell in a heartbreaker that was decided in the 92nd minute in Thousand Oaks on Sept. 17. The squads faced off at Farquhar Field during the Bulldogs' Breast Cancer Awareness Night on Oct. 12, with the Regals finishing on top, 3-0.
Both programs pack plenty of offensive punch as Cal Lutheran's freshman forward Taylor Will (Santa Maria, CA) leads the conference with 42 points (17g, 10a) while the U of R's senior forward Fionna Connolly (Salem, OR) sits second with 27 points (10g, 7a).
Cal Lutheran (19-1, 12-0 SCIAC) ran the table during the conference regular season and currently sits at No. 9 on the D3soccer.com Top-25 poll.
The other semifinal includes No. 2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges and No. 3 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in a cross-street rivalry match at CMS. The winners of Thursday's matches face off at the site of the highest remaining seed on Saturday with kickoff time to be determined.
