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The No. 2 seeded Portland Pilots (21-1-0) will face first-seeded UCLA (20-2-1) in an NCAA quarterfinal match on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 5 p.m. at Drake Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif. UCLA advanced with wins over Boise State (7-1), San Diego State (5-0) and Virginia (3-0) while Portland knocked off Denver (4-0), Washington (2-1) and Virginia Tech (4-1). The winner will advance to the Final Four and face the winner of Stanford and Boston College, who play Friday at 7 p.m. in Stanford, Calif.
Game Coverage
A free audio broadcast of the game will also be available at portlandpilots.com, while live stats for all NCAA playoff matches at can be found at www.ncaa.com. Visit the women’s soccer schedule page and click ‘Details’ for direct links.
Ticket Information
Tickets for the match are $10 for adults and $8 for youth/students. They can be purchased one hour prior to game time at the Drake Stadium ticket booth.
Tournament Tidbits
* The tournament field consists of 64 teams (30 automatic bids, 34 at-large selections).
* 16 teams were seeded, as four teams from each quadrant are given seeds, 1-4.
* The four No. 1 seeds are Stanford, North Carolina, Florida State and UCLA.
* All No. 1 and No. 2 seeds from each quadrant have advanced to the quarterfinals, except for No. 2 South Carolina who was knocked off by No. 3-seed Wake Forest in the third round
* The 2009 NCAA Women’s College Cup will be held in College Station, Texas, at Aggie Soccer Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M
* NCAA semifinal action begins Friday, Dec. 4 and the championship game is Sunday, Dec. 6.
* ESPNU will televise the semifinals live, while the championship game will be aired live on ESPN2 (10 a.m. PST).
Pilots Briefly...
• Kendra Chandhoke and Danielle Foxhoven scored two goals each as the Pilots defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies, 4-1, in an NCAA third round match
• The Pilots have won the second most games in a season in program history and are chasing their ninth College Cup appearance
• UP is the only team in the nation with four 10-goal scorers in Foxhoven, Michelle Enyeart, Sophie Schmidt and Halley Kreminski and Kendra Chandhoke is one goal away from being the fifth
• Portland is the highest scoring team in the nation this season
• UP also established a new school scoring record for a season with 82 goals so far. The previous high was 79 during the team’s run to a 23-0-2 record and second NCAA Championship.
• Portland punched its ticket by winning its 11th WCC title a perfect 7-0-0 league record
• The Pilots have won a league record 21 straight WCC games
• The Pilots have won 14 straight matches, outscoring opponents 59-4 over that stretch
• Three Pilots earned national player of the week honors a combined six times over 10 weeks
• 11 Pilots earned All-WCC honors, including Coach of the Year Garrett Smith, Player of the Year Michelle Enyeart and co-Freshman of the Year Kendall Johnson
• Portland is 13-0 this season at home, while averaging 3,472 fans per game
• The Pilots lead the nation in scoring (3.73) and are fourth in goals-against average (0.409)
• Danielle Foxhoven leads the nation in points per game (2.86) and is first in goals per game with 1.143 (24 total)
• Kelsey Davis was named one of 10 finalists for the 2009 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award
• Head coach Garrett Smith has a 137-18-7 record in his seventh year at the helm
• Pilots logged the sixth 20-win season in school history and third in the last six years
• Portland will have no national team conflicts for the first time since winning the 2005 NCAA title
• UP has two NCAA titles (2002, 2005) and eight NCAA College Cup appearances
Scouting UCLA Bruins
UCLA scored a little over three minutes into its third round match against Virginia last week and never looked back, eventually earning a 3-0 victory at Drake Stadium. Dea Cook put the Bruins up 1-0 on a header off of a corner kick in the fourth minute and Sydney Leroux scored UCLA’s next two goals (42nd, 89th minutes).
Leroux leads the attack with 48 points (23g, 2a) and Lauren Cheney follows with 42 points (16g, 10a). The Bruins have have reached the 20-win mark for the fifth straight season. The school record for wins in a season is 22, set in both 2005 and 2008.
Although UP has scored the most goals in the nation this season, UCLA’s 15 goals in the first three rounds of the tournament is more than any of the seven other remaining teams. Notre Dame has scored 12 while Portland has scored 10.
This Saturday will mark the third time in the last four seasons that Portland and UCLA have met in the NCAA Quarterfinals in Los Angeles. It will also mark the sixth time that the two teams have squared off during the postseason (UCLA leads 4-1). The Bruins have a 7-1 all-time record against the Pilots.