FIRST TOUCHES
430 - UC Irvine saw its shutout streak end at 430 minutes with the opening goal Friday at LMU. It's the fourth such streak to surpass 400 minutes in the program's history. The all-time mark still stands at 597 minutes without allowing a goal in 1988

100th - Thursday's match at USD marks the 100th all-time meeting between UC Irvine and a West Coast Conference member. UCI has 30 wins against the WCC including seven against the Toreros

114 - Head Coach Scott Juniper became the all-time winningest coach in UC Irvine women's soccer history with a 1-0 shutout of Oregon on Sunday. His 114th win surpassed Marine Cano for the all-time mark. His career record currently stands at 114-73-24

LAST WEEK RECAP
The Anteaters continued their unbeaten run against a pair of high-quality opponents starting off with a draw at LMU. The Lions had been on a tear themselves, and opened up the scoring in the 11th minute. Kiana Palacios tied things in the 60th minute, and despite a 22-10 shot advantage for the 'Eaters, no other shots found the back of the net and the match would remain tied for a 1-1 draw through 110 minutes.
 
Sunday was a game added to the ledger just two weeks ago after Oregon had a match at Texas A&M canceled from Hurricane Harvey. Sunday also saw the return of Grayson Galbraith to the starting lineup, and she paid dividends heading home a Reema Bzeih cross in the 37th minute. The 1-0 lead would hold up behind the team's fifth shutout of the season and three Maddie Newsom saves pushing the record to 3-1-3 and getting career win No. 114 for head coach Scott Juniper now the most wins by a coach in program history.

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
The Anteaters return to their run of WCC opponents as they will finish off non-conference play with four straight matches against them starting with San Diego and Pepperdine.
 
USD has a new head coach this season in well-decorated Louise Lieberman from UCLA. It's been tough sledding to a 1-5 record scoring once in the five defeats while taking a win from Denver, 3-1. Last week, LBSU scored a 3-0 victory on the Toreros who have mustered up just over five shots a match and no second half goals. Summer Mason is the cog in the offense with nearly half the team's shots and shots on goal. Amber Michel has been tested in net stopping 28 shots.
 
The week closes out in Anteater Stadium as UCI and Pepperdine square off for the first time since 2012 when the Waves crushing UCI, 4-0, in a neutral site match at UCLA. Pepperdine and UCLA will face each other Friday before they head to Irvine. The Waves are 4-2-1 so far with decisive wins over Texas Tech and Northwestern while drawing with Virginia Tech and taking Texas A&M to overtime. Pepperdine has been less successful on the road with just one win away from home in four matches. The defense carries the torch mirroring UCI with three goals allowed in seven matches led by Hailey Harbison and Jaime Van Horn in front of junior keeper Brielle Preece. Freshman Devyn Gilfoy has burst onto the scene with four goals and two game-winners early in her career helped by turning 12 of her 15 shots on frame.

HIKING UP RECORD MOUNTAIN
Sunday's win propelled head coach Scott Juniper into the program's top spot all-time in wins with 114. He surpassed Marine Cano who won 113 over 12 seasons with the program. Scott's Sunday win over Oregon was his eighth over a Pac-12 program to add to other premier wins over Texas A&M, Auburn, Oklahoma, BYU, Wake Forest, and Portland and five wins over ranked squads his teams have accomplished.
 
"Goes without saying that there's just tons and tons of people, players, coaches, administrators that have all done their part in those wins so its a nice milestone for a lot of different people who are involved. I like to think that milestones are like seeing a bear on a hike: pretty cool for a moment, but you better keep moving because there's something a lot cooler around the corner or over the next peak so we'll enjoy it for the moment, but will move on pretty quick."

THROW-INS
+ USD and Pep is the 3rd and 4th of 6 WCC schools on the Anteater docket. This will be the 100th meeting between UCI and the WCC on Friday which has resulted in a 30-58-11 record in those matches. UCI is also 13-9-1 against Pacific, a current WCC school, who was a Big West member at the time
+ UCI's improved to 19-48-8 against the Pac-12 Conference in their history and are 1-1-1 against them this season in addition to an exhibition draw with No. 3 USC, the reigning national champions
+ UCI's season opening opponent, Cal, has snuck up to 15th in the latest national rankings. Their opponent this week, Pepperdine, has received votes in multiple rankings throughout this season
+ UCI and USD first met in 1992 playing twice with the 'Eaters taking both matches - 1-0 at home and 2-0 at USD
+ UCI and USD have one draw which came in their only postseason meeting in 2011 at UC Irvine. The teams drew, 2-2, with USD advancing on a PK tiebreaker, 5-3
+ UCI is 2-0-1 in their last three vs. San Diego, and have not lost in regulation to the Toreros since 2005
+ UCI and Pepperdine first met in 1993, a 1-0 Pepperdine victory
+ This is Pepperdine's first visit to UCI since 2008 where UCI won, 2-1. All-time, UCI is 1-3-1 at home vs. the Waves
+ Last season was the fourth time since 2000, all under coach Juniper, that the squad scored 30 or more goals
+ UCI allowed less than 20 goals in a season in 2016 for the seventh time in program history and third under coach Juniper
+ UCI currently leads the Big West in GAA, save percentage, and assists. Maddie Newsom is the conference's leader in GAA and save %
+ Five Anteaters have amassed 50 or more career matches played in Andrea Mensen, Alex Karlowitsch, Noel Baham, Kiana Palacios and Grayson Galbraith. The squad's active leaders are Baham with 65 matches played and Palacios with 55 starts
+ Kiana Palacios became the 12th Anteater to reach 20 career goals vs. Portland, and also became the 12th Anteater to reach 50 points for a career with three points vs. Toledo
+ Kiana Palacios scored three times in the U20 CONCACAF championships finishing third and earning a spot in the U20 Women's World Cup. She added three more goals in the U20WWC in which Mexico reached the Quarterfinals of the knockout round. From there, she has earned a spot with the Mexican National Team playing in friendlies over the offseason in Canada and Sweden alongside Anteater alums Janelly Farias and Clarissa Robles
+ Lili Andino has also earned some national team experience playing with the Puerto Rican national squad over the summer