IRVINE, Calif. – No. 7 UC Irvine completed the final day of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational with an 11-9 win over No. 9 UC Santa Barbara in the ninth-place game Sunday afternoon.

UCI improves to 10-5 on the season and ended the weekend with a 3-1 record. The Anteaters finished in ninth-place. UCSB falls to 13-5 overall.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
> Tara Prentice finished with a hat trick, scoring three goals
> Mary Brooks and Megan Falcon each had two goals while Isabel Rack, Danielle Ayala, Toni Shackelford and Piper Smith tallied one apiece
> Morgan Jones finished with six saves in goal
> UCI scored on one five-meter penalty attempt and converted 3-11 extra-man situations
> UCSB's Sarah Snyder and Amanda Legaspi finished with three goals each while Kenzi Snyder made 13 saves in goal

FIRST QUARTER
> Brooks won the sprint and scored just 14 seconds into the first frame (7:46)
> The Gauchos would score two-straight to take a 2-1 lead (6:15) before Prentice converted a five-meter penalty shot
> The teams exchanged back-and-forth goals as the game remained tied, 4-4, with under two minutes to play
> UCSB's Legaspi fired in a goal at 47 seconds to give the Gauchos a 5-4 lead

SECOND QUARTER
> UCI took back a lead they would not relinquish after scoring three-straight to open the frame
> Smith tallied a goal on a power-play before Brooks and Ayala fired in two more at 4:20 and 3:32, respectively
> UCSB scored with 2:48 remaining but Smith found Falcon for an extra-man goal to give UCI a 7-6 halftime advantage

THIRD QUARTER
> The Anteater defense held the Gauchos scoreless in the frame
> Flacon and Prentice each tallied a goal as UCI led 8-6

FOURTH QUARTER
> Brooks dished a pass to Shackelford for a UCI goal at 6:48
> UCSB scored on a powerplay before Rack answered with an extra-man goal for the 'Eaters
> The Gauchos added two more goals to end the game but UCI held on for the 11-9 win

HEAD COACH DAN KLATT ON UCI'S PERFORMANCE THIS WEEKEND
"We had to get over the disappointment of losing our first game, we had a really rough fourth quarter in that game. But we rallied back and had the opportunity to play some conference opponents and we did the best that we could do given the situation. I thought our offense played at a high level but we need to buckle down on our defense moving forward."

UP NEXT
> UCI plays Chapman (3 p.m.) and Pomona-Pitzer (6:45 p.m.) at the Pomona Convergence Tournament Friday, March 1