Thursday, October 24, 2013

7:00 p.m. – Long Beach State (16-5, 0-0 MPSF) at UC Irvine (11-6, 0-1 MPSF)
Anteater Aquatics Complex – Irvine, Calif.

Friday, October 25, 2013

7:00 p.m. – UCLA (19-2, 0-1 MPSF) at UC Irvine
Anteater Aquatics Complex – Irvine, Calif.

MPSF ACTION

● Eighth-ranked UC Irvine hosts No. 7 Long Beach State Thursday night in a "Black & Blue Rivalry," Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game.

● Coach Marc Hunt's 'Eaters host second-ranked UCLA Friday night in MPSF action.

● UCI has been idle from competition since a 13-10, overtime loss to Long Beach State Oct. 13 in the seventh-place game of the UCI Invitational.


STATS LEADERS

● Senior driver Mitch Wise, a two-time All-American, leads UCI with 57 goals this season.  Wise, who has 219 goals in his Anteater career, ranks third in the MPSF with a scoring average of 3.35 goals per game this season.  He scored a career-high eight goals in the Sept. 18 win at Chapman.

● Freshman Kyle Trush is second on the team with 22 goals.

● Senior Bojan Hrlec, an honorable mention All-American last season, has 21 goals on the year.

● Sophomore Tyler Mancuso has 18 goals this season, sophomore Jared Osborn 17 and junior Jacob Mourer 16.
 
● Junior Alan Robertson (15) and sophomore Larson Pfeil (11) also have double-digit goal totals this year.

● Senior goalkeeper Alex Kazmier has 100 saves and ranks third in the MPSF with an average of 11.43 saves per game.

● Junior goalie Michael Bailey has 73 stops and he is sixth in the MPSF at 10.81 saves per contest.


LOOKING AHEAD

● UCI travels to UC Santa Barbara Nov. 2 for an MPSF game at 12:00 p.m.

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