The Cal men’s soccer team (5-0-1) recorded a comfortable win against Charleston (1-5-0) on Sunday. The match looked secure for the Bears from kickoff to final whistle, and although this was expected, the result was still important as Cal maintained its unbeaten record.
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This weekend’s game between Cal (3-0-1) and Colgate (1-5-0) doesn’t have much for storylines, and the college soccer world expects the Bears to roll through the Raiders. This can be described only as a trap game, and head coach Kevin Grimes knows it. Read More…
With three minutes remaining in regulation, it was chaos in front of the Penn State net. In the 88th minute, Cal junior midfielder Connor Hallisey put a shot on net, but the Penn State defense cleared the ball off the goal line. Six seconds later, the scramble in the six-yard Read More…
When the whistle blows Friday night to signal the start of the match, every single Cal men’s soccer player suited up for the contest against Penn State will have a chance to make this week’s big play, or this week’s big stop, or this week’s overtime winner. In what has Read More…
In a battle between the Cal men’s and women’s soccer teams, the men win. At least on paper. At least right now. The men are ranked among the top five teams in the nation. The women are not. The men beat two top-five teams already this season. The women did not. Read More…
The Cal men’s soccer team is off to a hot start. The Bears, who entered the season unranked nationally, opened their 2013 season by beating two top-five teams in just three days. On Friday, Cal got goals from fifth-year senior Steve Birnbaum and junior midfielder Connor Hallisey to defeat Georgetown Read More…
The sweat and the grind dominating the long summer days left the Cal men’s soccer team feeling more fit than ever before. Heading into offseason workouts, it was the team’s goal to forget the memory of the disappointing 2012 season, in which the Bears finished fourth in the Pac-12 and Read More…
Cal forward Alec Sundly ran toward the sideline, pumping his fist in celebration late Sunday afternoon in Edwards Stadium. His teammates, sprinting off the bench, mobbed the senior to the right of No. 2 Maryland’s goal. In the 97th minute of Cal’s matchup with the Terrapins, Cal defender Steve Birnbaum Read More…
On Sept. 28, as the cold fog descended on Edwards Stadium, the Cal men’s soccer team scored the golden goal to defeat San Diego State. The Bears improved to a 6-2-1 record, and at the time they believed they can contend for the Pac-12 title. Then, everything started to go Read More…
Coming into Friday afternoon, the Cal men’s soccer team held onto a flicker of hope for the a miracle postseason bid. Then Stanford came into Edwards Stadium and stomped it into dust. In its worst loss since its 6-0 beatdown to Maryland in September, Stanford (9-8-1, 5-4-1 in the Pac-12) Read More…