IRVINE, Calif. – No. 6 UC Irvine suffered an 11-5 loss to No. 4 Stanford Sunday at the Anteater Aquatics Complex.

Senior Kyle Trush led UC Irvine (11-8) with a season-high three goals to go with an assist and two steal. Brother Jack Trush added a goal as did Lovre Milos. Goalkeeper Matej Matijevic had 11 saves, an assist and a steal.

Stanford's Reid Chase also had three goals followed by Connor Stapleton and Cody Smith with two each as the Cardinal improved to 15-3 overall.

Neither team was good on the power play with Stanford going 1-9 and UCI 1-3.

Jack Trush scored on a pass from brother Kyle at 5:48 of the first quarter then it was Kyle's turn at 7:07 of the second quarter to put the Anteaters up 2-0. Stanford would score the next four, the first two coming from Reid Chase to take a 4-2 lead at the half.

Lovre Milos scored on a long pass from Matej Matijevic at 6:25 in the third period to get UCI within 4-3, but the Cardinal would answer with three more to push the advantage to 7-3. Kyle Trush would score two more times (7:31, 1:36) in the fourth quarter as Stanford found the back of the net four times for the 11-5 final score.

UCI stays at home next week, hosting Pepperdine on Friday (Nov. 3) at 7:00 p.m.

SCORING BY PERIOD
Stanford              0-4-3-4-11
UC Irvine             1-1-1-2-5

SCORING
Stanford: Chase 3, Stapleton 2, Smith 2, Hallock 1, Parrish 1, Enright 1, Pfeil 1

GOALKEEPING
Stanford: Holland 9
UC Irvine: Matijevic 11