HEADERS

• Friday night's match against No. 20 Cal drew 905 fans to Anteater Stadium, the sixth-largest home crowd for a women's soccer match.
• Freshman Sammie James scored in the 81st minute against Cal Friday 30 seconds into her Anteater career.
• Natalia Ledezma had seven of UCI's 12 shots and four of the team's seven shots on goal over the weekend.
• Natalia Ledezma has two goals and four points through two matches. She had zero goals and three points through the squad's first 10 matches in 2012.
• UCI had just one two-goal match in 2012, Laura McGrail on October 7 vs. UC Santa Barbara.
• The 'Eaters totaled 12 shots in two matches over the weekend. They average 13.3 per match in 2012.
• Center back Haley O'Brien was not in the lineup against Cal or UNLV. She led the team with

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• UC Irvine is 4-5 against non-conference opponents at home since 2011.
• UCI's schedule breakdown by conference is four Pac-12, three WCC, two Mountain West, and one WAC.
• UCI is now 44-19-6 all-time against Mountain West programs.
• The 'Eaters were 2-3 against ranked schools in 2012.
• UCI is 18-17-1 all-time in the month of August, 6-8-0 in home August matches.

EARLY RETURNS

• The 'Eaters bring back six starters from the 2012 squad including preseason award-winners Natalia Ledezma, Haley O'Brien, and Corey Tobin.
• Ledezma was named the preseason favorite for Big West Offensive Player of the Year according to collegesportsmadness.com.
• UC Irvine's non-conference schedule ranked as the ninth-toughest according to allwhitekit.com.
• Laura McGrail led the 2012 team with six goals. She also led all Big West players with four game-winning goals.

SUBBING IN

• The newcomer position breakdown shows three forwards, three midfielders, and five defenders.
• Kelsey Texeira, Alana Sooy, and Victoria Hernandez each recorded their first career start.
• Three other 'Eaters, Bianca Frontino, Tatyana Garrett, and Sammie James, also made their debuts.

CORNERS

• UC Irvine has made the Big West Tournament field in five of the six seasons under Head Coach Scott Juniper.
• UCI plays 19 matches in the 2013 season: two exhibition, 11 non-conference, eight Big West, nine home, 10 road
• The 'Eaters' five non-conference home games feature four NCAA tournament participants from 2012 that won a total of five tournament matches.
• UCI's match at BYU will be broadcast on BYUtv.

IN THE BOOKS

• Natalia Ledezma currently sits in a tie for fifth all-time with 16 assists for UCI, one behind Nicole Bucciarelli. The all-time assists leader is Simone Ferrera with 27.
• Corey Tobin and Jenn Randazzo rank third and fourth all-time in goalkeeper win percentage.
• Anteater keepers have posted a goals-against-average under 1.00 in five of the last six seasons.
• The 'Eaters played eight overtime matches in 2012, the most since nine in 2003.

OPPOSING VIEWS

• The 'Eaters travel to San Diego and host Denver this week with a combined record of 7-11-1 against them.
• The 'Eaters last played USD in an NCAA First Round match that went to penalty kicks.
• USD went 1-1 in a pair of wild matches last week; a 5-1 win over SJSU followed by a 4-2 loss to USC.
• Michaela Dooley scored three times for the Toreros. Jacquelin Altschuld added a pair of goals including the game-winner and an assist.
• Denver is ranked 25th to start the season after a trip to the Sweet 16 in 2012.
• The Pioneers opened with a 2-1 overtime victory over Colorado College before disposing of Northern Colorado, 3-0.
• Kristen Hamilton notched a pair of goals on Sunday after providing the game-winning assist in the overtime win.
• Cassidy Rey stopped 11 shots in earning both wins in net over the weekend.

SOCCER AT THE NEXT LEVEL

• CoCo Goodson was drafted by Sky Blue FC of the National Women's Soccer League based in New Jersey. Sky Blue FC fell 2-0 to Abby Wambach and Carli Lloyd of the Western New York Flash in the NWSL semifinals.
• Rachel Wood joined club HK Kopavogur / Vikingur Reykjavik of Iceland. The club is currently ninth in the Urvalsdeild league in Iceland. Wood scored her first professional goal Aug. 13th in the 51st minute against Thor / KA.
• Former 'Eater keeper Danielle de Seriere returns for her third season with Dutch soccer club FC Twente.