STANFORD, Calif. — For the first 19 minutes of Saturday’s Bay Area Derby against No. 1 Stanford, the Cal women’s soccer team looked on par with this year’s Pac-12 champions. While battling the pouring rain at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium, the Bears controlled the pace of the match, and Read More…
The Cal women’s soccer team has only one active player that has more than five goals; No. 1 Stanford has five such players. The Bears (12-5-2, 5-3-2 in the Pac-12) have lost two matches in the last two weeks; the Cardinal have not lost a regular season match since Oct. Read More…
As Katie Benz sits on the bench and watches her teammates play in the last home match against Utah, all she can notice is how slow the time is moving on the clock. Every second seems to stretch out longer than the last one, every pass slower than the previous. Read More…
In the 87th minute of the Cal women’s soccer team’s match against Oregon State, Beavers forward Chelsea Buckland scored her second goal of the day, extending her squad’s lead to 3-0 and deliver the Bears one of their worst losses of the season. After Cal’s dreadful performance on Sunday, nobody Read More…
Ever since losing star striker Katie Benz, the Cal women’s soccer team has been searching for the offensive replacements to fill her painstakingly noticeable absence in the front lines. It seemed the Bears (11-4-2, 4-2-2 in the Pac-12) found their goalscorer in forwards Rachel Mercik or Mekenna DeBack at times Read More…
During Sunday’s contest against Utah, former star striker Alex Morgan returned to Berkeley for the first time since her successful World Cup campaign. Against Colorado and the Utes, the Cal women’s soccer team direly needed a goalscorer like Morgan as the Bears (11-4-2, 4-2-2) produced a plethora of offensive chances Read More…
For Cal women’s soccer team, Friday’s match against last-placed Colorado at Edwards Stadium was the easiest match of conference play. As the newest addition to the Pac-12, the Buffaloes had no conference wins coming in and won only three games this season. But the Bears (10-4-2, 3-2-2) played relatively subpar Read More…
With its extra time victory against Arizona last weekend, the Cal women’s soccer team won its 10th match this season, eclipsing last year’s total of nine with five games remaining on the schedule. As the Bears (10-3-2, 3-1-2) are on track to post their best record since 2007, a large Read More…
There is an aphorism in soccer that the most dangerous times during a match is in the first five minutes of each half. As the first five minutes of each half are spent usually warming up for the next 40 minutes, it leaves the defense vulnerable for any team that Read More…
When star striker Katie Benz had her career season cut short by a leg injury, the Cal women’s soccer team turned to sophomore forward Rachel Mercik to take the reins of the offense. Mercik knows all too well what Benz is currently going through – Mercik broke a bone in Read More…
