WEEKLY MATCHUPS

#20 UC Irvine Anteaters (5-1-1, 0-0 Big West) at California Baptist Lancers (4-1-1, 0-0 WAC)
CBU Soccer Stadium (1,000) - Riverside, Calif.
Monday - 7:00 PM | ESPN+ | Live Stats 

#20 UC Irvine Anteaters (5-1-1, 0-0 Big West) at UNLV Rebels (2-3-2, 0-0 WAC)
Peter Johann Memorial Field (2,500) - Las Vegas, Nev.
Friday - 7:00 PM | ESPN+ | Live Stats 

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COUNTER ATTACKS
#20 - UC Irvine hopped into the national rankings last week at #22 and rose again Tuesday to #20, highest since 2015
9 - UCI has had 9 different scorers, four scoring their first UCI goal, and two (Smuck, Gonzalez) scoring their first ever


THROW-INS
+9 - The Anteaters have a +11 goal differential, 1 of 13 schools with a differential of +11 or better
1,391 - The five Anteaters freshmen have accounted for 1,391 minutes, 14 starts, 2 goals, and 5 points


SET PIECES
4 - The 'Eaters have earned 4 Big West awards with two more this week by Joe O'Shaughnessy and Gustavo Gonzalez
350th - The Anteaters won their 350th game as a program on Friday, September 12 in a 1-0 home win over Yale


· UC Irvine's 5-0-1 start to 2025 was abruptly ended Wednesday in its first road match:
+ The 20th-ranked Anteaters went to the 23rd-ranked Toreros of San Diego exiting with a 2-0 defeat. Two goals in the final 20 minutes were the damage by USD to improved to 5-1-2.
· Joe O'Shaughnessy suffered his first loss Wednesday in net while tripling his goal count. He still stands with a 0.47 GAA and has stopped 80% of shots on goal this season with four clean sheets
· UCI's offense has run through scoring leader Misael Gonzalez Lopez with four goals and eight points. Six other Anteaters have three points including assists leader, Hunny Yoo, with three. Five 'Eaters other than Gonzalez Lopez are responsible for the five game-winners
· The Anteaters' last two goals have been put in by true freshmen. Freshmen have accounted for 1,391 minutes collecting 14 starts, two goals, and five points among five 'Eaters
· UC Irvine entered the national rankings at No. 22 last week and improved this week to No. 20. It's the first time ranked since the 2019 preseason poll and highest ranking since 2015. The 'Eaters have slowly added votes each week going from zero in the preseason to five, 11, 24, and now 38 in the most recent poll. Their Wednesday matchup with No. 23 USD marked the 88th time UCI has faced a ranked opponent running their record to 24-55-9 in those games
· The Anteaters have earned four awards in the first five weeks. Joe O'Shaughnessy picked up Defensive Player of the Week and Gustavo Gonzalez scored Freshman of the Week the week prior, the first for each. Earlier, UCI took home a pair of Big West Offensive Player of the Week honors starting with Isaac Powell after his game-winner over UCLA followed by Misael Gonzalez Lopez scoring three times in two wins vs. Cal State LA and North Florida

Monday at the Lancers
· California Baptist wraps up its non-conference this week just like UC Irvine with two more Big West opponents. So far, CBU is 2-1 with wins over Cal State Bakersfield and Cal Poly while drawing with Cal State Fullerton. They are 4-1-1 with the loss coming at USD just like UCI. Recently, they had a trip to No. 6 West Virginia canceled and then defeated Tulsa Tuesday, 3-1
· This will be the first meeting between the squads that will share a conference next year
· The Lancers have scored in each game and scored two or more in five of six. Blake D'Agostino has put home five of the goals, three on penalties, with help from Liam Jones (3 G, 2 A), and Stavros Charalampous (2 G) with each scoring a game-winner. Second-year keeper Hugo Do Rego has seen every minute in net with one shutout stopping 4.25 shots per match

Friday at the Rebels
· UNLV has had a whirlwind start to 2025 going 2-3-2. They beat LMU to start the year, then fell to Washington, UC Riverside, and Santa Clara, and most recently drew with UC Santa Barbara despite being out-shot, 27-8. They've travel to CSUN Sunday before taking on the 'Eaters
· The schools have met 26 times with UNLV taking the edge. The Rebels won the first 15 matchups in the series before UCI got a win in 1996 and have gone 7-3-1 since.
· The Rebels have just four goals, all coming in their two wins, from four different scorers. Nick Legendre and Tyler Ware each have one and are the primary shot-takers. Midfielders Jonah Craig and Kai Merrill have put in some minutes as has keeper Hugo Lemos (12 GA, 26 saves, 2 SHO).