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Stumpf moves into second on school's all-time win list. UCSB is 8-1-1 in its last ten and unbeaten in its last six (5-0-1).

Oct. 12, 2004

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The Schedule
Match No. 15
Friday, October 15, 2004 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Cal Poly Mustangs
at Mustang Stadium

The Gaucho Record
UC Santa Barbara enters the weekend with an overall record of 9-4-1 and a 4-0-0 record in the Big West. The 4-0-0 mark in league play gives the Gauchos 12 points and ties them for first-place with Cal State Northridge, which is also 4-0-0 in the Big West. Last weekend, UCSB swept a pair of road matches. On Friday night, Jennifer Borcich scored the 50th goal of her career midway through the second half, and UCSB held-on for a 1-0 win at Cal State Fullerton. Freshman Catherine Burson logged seven saves in the win. On Sunday, the Gauchos won a 2-1 double-overtime contest at UC Riverside. Borcich scored in the 88th minute to tie the score 1-1 and then Allie Kueny scored in the 108th minute to give UCSB the win. The loss was UCR's first of the season after a 12-match unbeaten string. With the pair of weekend victories, Santa Barbara has now gone unbeaten in its last six (5-0-1) and 8-1-1 in its last ten.

A Better Start
In 2003, the Gauchos opened its Big West season against the same four opponents as they have this year. The result, however, was quite different. Last year, after four Big West matches, UCSB had posted a 1-2-1 record. The Gauchos sole win through the first four contests last year was a home victory over Cal State Fullerton. Santa Barbara had dropped matches against Long Beach State and UC Riverside, and it had posted a tie against UC Irvine. Also, through four matches last season, the Gauchos had scored just five total goals. Through five league contests this year, UCSB has tallied nine goals.

Stumpf Moves Into Second On UCSB's Win List
The weekend victories over Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside were numbers 60 and 61 in head coach Paul Stumpf's UCSB coaching career. The 61 wins moves Stumpf into second-place on the all-time Gaucho coaching list. Andy Kuenzli, who started the women's program at Santa Barbara in 1983, completed his women's coaching career with a 59-18-6 record over four seasons. Stumpf has now posted a 61-40-10 career mark. Tad Bobak (1987-1994) had a career record of 100-43-7.

On The Stumpf
Paul Stumpf is in his sixth season at UC Santa Barbara. He enters the week with a record of 61-40-10. He has led the Gauchos to three consecutive seasons of double-figures in wins, the first time the program has accomplished the feat since 1989-91. Last season, he guided UCSB to an 11-6-4 record, and within one game of the Big West Championship. 2003 marked the fourth straight season in which the Gauchos finished at or over the .500 mark, a feat last accomplished more than a decade ago. In 1999, Stumpf's first season as the head coach at UCSB, he took a team that was selected to finish last in the conference, but instead posted an 8-9-1 overall record and a 5-4 mark in the Big West. Following the season, Stumpf was chosen as the Big West's Coach of the Year. Before arriving in Santa Barbara as an assistant coach in 1998, Stumpf spent two seasons as an assistant at Humboldt State. In addition, the San Diego native spent several years coaching club teams in the Santa Rosa area.

Borcich Passes The 50 Plateau
Senior forward Jennifer Borcich scored a goal in each of UCSB's contests last weekend, giving her ten goals and four assists for the season, 24 points. In her career, Borcich has now notched 51 goals, 25 assists and 127 points. Her goal in UCSB's 1-0 win at Cal State Fullerton, was the 50th of her career. She is the third player in school history to reach the 50-goal mark, joining Carin Jennings, who had 102 goals, and Dianne Manore, who tallied 58. She ranks third on Santa Barbara's all-time goal scoring and point lists. Her 25 assists ranks her fifth all-time. A two-time Big West Offensive Player of the Year (2001 and 2003) and three-time First Team All-Big West selection, Borcich is the Big West's all-time leading scorer. She has scored nine of her ten goals in the last ten matches. Finally, she joins Jennings as the only two UCSB players to score ten or more goals in four consecutive seasons. Borcich had 11 in 2001, 17 in 2002, 13 in 2003, and now ten in 2004.

Their Better Half
The second half of matches are proving to be UCSB's better half. Through 14 matches this season, the Gauchos have scored a total of 28 goals and allowed 16. Of the 28 goals scored by UCSB, 21 have come in the second half and overtime. In fact, the Gauchos have outscored opponents 7-5 in the first half of matches and 20-9 in the second half of matches. Opponents have outscored Santa Barbara 2-1 in overtime this season. The imbalance of goal scoring by half has become even more acute in recent weeks. In the last three weekends UCSB has outscored opponents 12-2 and all 12 goals have come in the second half and overtime. In the last ten matches, a span over which UCSB has gone 8-1-1, the Gauchos have outscored their opponents 23-6, and of the 23 goals, 20 were scored in the second half or overtime.

UCSB Gets Defensive
Through the first four matches this season, UCSB had allowed ten goals. In fact, through the first five, the Gauchos had allowed 12 goals. In the last nine matches, however, Santa Barbara has allowed just four total goals and posted five shutouts. Gaucho defenders Cinthia Ruiz, Katie Cooper and Jessie Steinberg have played a major part in the team's defensive turnaround, as have goalkeepers Jamie Considine and Catherine Burson. Over the last weekend, with Considine nursing an injury, Burson, a freshman, stepped-in and allowed just one goal over 197 minutes. She had a season-high seven saves in Friday's win over Cal State Fullerton, and she added two more at UC Riverside.

The Bickford Files
Sophomore forward Chandi Bickford is arguably the most improved player on the UCSB roster. She continued to build on that reputation in Sunday's win at UC Riverside. In the victory over the Highlanders, which was their first defeat of the season, Bickford helped the Gauchos overcome a 1-0 deficit, assisting on Jennifer Borcich's goal in the 88th minute, and then on Allie Kueny's goal late in the second overtime. With two assists at UCR, Bickford has taken the team-lead in that category with eight. In fact, she has three more assists than Randi Johns and Darci Gwartz who each have five.