IRVINE, Calif. – The Anteaters return to action after an 11-day hiatus to host No. 21/23 Brown before traveling up to Isla Vista for a meeting with No. 14/16 UC Santa Barbara.
 
Week Ten Notes
 
GAME SCHEDULE
No. 21/23 Brown at No. 7/7 UC Irvine 
Tuesday, March 26 | 4:00 PM | Anteater Aquatics Complex
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No. 7/7 UC Irvine at No. 14/16 UC Santa Barbara
Friday, March 29 | 12:00 PM | Santa Barbara HS
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THIS WEEK'S STORYLINES
> UC Irvine enters the week at the seventh ranked spot in the weekly CWPA poll
> UCI comes in ranked seventh in the inaugural ACWPC weekly poll
> The Anteaters play two contests this week, the first at home versus No. 21/23 Brown before traveling to No. 14/16 UC Santa Barbara to continue Big West play
> UCI has not played a contest since Friday Mar. 15
> No. 21/23 Brown is on their Spring Break trip to the West Coast where UC Irvine is the fourth of six teams on the slate
> The Bears picked up wins over RV Azusa Pacific (W, 8-6) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (W, 12-11) before narrowly falling to Pomona-Pitzer (L,11-10)
> After the Anteaters, Brown will take on Long Beach State and California Baptist University
> Ella Palmer leads the Bears with 33 goals on the season while drawing 34 exclusions
> Cleo Washer dishes out a team best 29 assists
> Both Washer and Emily Suong have forced a team high 31 steals
> Roxanne Hazuka is a mainstay in cage for Brown, saving 134 shots
> No. 14/16 UC Santa Barbara enters the week with an identical record to UCI, 12-9 overall record and 1-1 in the Big West
> The Gauchos play two on Wednesday, the first at Santa Clara and then a neutral site game against West Valley College
> UCSB has not played since Mar. 9 when they suffered their first defeat of the conference season to Long Beach State (L, 10-4)
> Goalkeeper Madison Walker was named to the 2024 Cutino Award Watch List becoming the first ever Gaucho (male or female) to be named to the list
> Walker has notched 150 saves on the season for a 0.519 save percentage along with 28 steals
> Juju Amaral holds the top spot for UCSB in both goals (30) and assists (27) for 57 points while also having the team best steals (30)
> Leigh Lyter and Annie Kuester are next up in the scoring effort with 29 and 28 goals on the season, respectively
> Lyter shares the team lead in steals (30) while Kuester is the best of the Guachos in field blocks (9)

LAST WEEK'S RECAP AND NOTES
> UC Irvine went 2-0 in their last week of action with wins over CUI, 18-88, and CSUN, 15-8
> Against CUI...
    -- Jensine Bugelli, Lauren Hett, Maja Layden, Marilynn Hassett, and Vivian Bailey recorded two goals each
    -- Avy Newton, Kennedy East, Sabina Shackelford, Libby Alexander, Brooke Hourigan, Madi O'Hara, Sara Naulty, and Gabby Norris rounded out the scoring effort
    -- Rachel Kirchner earned the win in the cage with two saves and an assist in 16 minutes
    -- Jordan Frost totaled 16 minutes in the net to go along with three saves and an assist
    -- Airian Grisham and East dished out two assists apiece
> At CSUN...
    -- Maja Layden's hat-trick helped lead No. 8 UC Irvine to their first Big West victory
    -- Airian Grisham, Libby Alexander, Gracie Helberg, and Brooke Hourigan all placed two in the cage
    -- Sabina Shackelford, Jensine Bugelli, Madeline Kasper, and Annabelle Mundelius rounded out the scoring
    -- UC Irvine held CSUN to 3-16 (0.188) on power plays
> Tedesco ranks fourth in the Big West in goals against average (8.97), fifth in save percentage (0.459), and sixth in saves (118)
> Bugelli is third in the league with her 29 steals on the season
> East lands sixth in the conference in field blocks (9)