Oct. 21, 2003

The Schedule
Match No. 16
Friday, October 24, 2003 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at University of the Pacific Tigers
at Pacific's Stagg Field

Match No. 17
Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 2:30 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Cal State Northridge Matadors
at Cal State Northridge's Matador Soccer Field

The Week In Review
The good news for UC Santa Barbara last week was that it tied 19th-ranked Cal Poly. The bad news is that the Gauchos tied 19th-ranked Cal Poly. While the tie with the defending-Big West Champion Mustangs was a positive, in one sense, it did have a downside, extending the team's winless streak to six in a row. On the whole, however, considering it took a goal by the Gauchos' Jennifer Borcich in the 88th-minute, the tie was mostly a good thing.

The Record/The Streak
UCSB enters the week with an overall record of 6-5-4 and a Big West record of 1-2-2. The Gauchos are winless in their last six games, going 0-3-3 over that span. In fact, since opening Big West play with a solid 3-0 win over Cal State Fullerton, UCSB has gone 0-2-2 in league play.

Sandza Joins Select Company
Junior midfielder Krystal Sandza scored the first of the Gauchos' two goals in Saturday's 2-2 tie with Cal Poly. The goal was the ninth of the season for Sandza and the 41st of her career. A little over a week earlier, in a 3-2 overtime loss to Pepperdine, she scored her 40th career goal, making her just one of three players in school history to achieve that mark. Sandza joins four-time All-American Carin Jennings who was the first player in NCAA history to score 100 career goals, finishing with 102, and Dianne Manore, who finished with 58. In addition to her 41 goals, the Poway, Calif., native now has 96 career points, also third all-time. Sandza's totals of nine goals and 21 points this season lead the team.

Borcich Snaps Dry-Spell
Junior forward Jennifer Borcich picked a good time to end her scoring dry-spell. She scored her seventh goal of the season in the 88th-minute to give UCSB a tie with 19th-ranked Cal Poly. Borcich's score against the Mustangs was her first since she scored in the first half of a September 28 tie against the University of San Diego. Including the first 87:17 of the Cal Poly match, she had gone a stretch of just over 560 minutes without scoring a goal, four complete matches and two partial matches. In her career, Borcich has now scored 35 goals, which ranks her fifth all-time, 20 assists, which ranks eighth all-time, and 90 points, which ranks fifth all-time.

No Overtime Pay
If the UCSB women's soccer team wants to unionize, now would probably be a good time. The first order of business for this newly created union? Demand overtime pay. During the current six-match winless stretch, the Gauchos have gone to overtime five times, tying three and losing a pair. On the season, Santa Barbara has been tied at the end of seven regulations and in those seven contests, the Gauchos have recorded a 1-2-4 record. The team's overtime victory came on September 19 at home against Oregon State when Randi Johns scored early in the extra period to give the Gauchos a 2-1 win. The four ties on the season is the most that a UCSB team has ever had.

Fresh Ideas
As the season has evolved, the Gauchos have given more playing time to several freshmen. Allie Kueny, who is listed as a forward but has played defender and midfield, midfielder Darci Gwartz and midfielder Morgan Tanner have been involved either as starters or key reserves from the word go, but in recent matches, UCSB has called on defender Lindsay Steinriede, defender Chandi Bickford and forward Meghan Rourke. Of the freshmen, Gwartz has tallied a pair of goals and Kueny has scored one, while Steinriede and Bickford have helped to shore up a defensive group that has been victimized with injuries.