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Berkeley Bound

No. 18 Stanford (5-2, 1-1) vs. Cal (4-5, 1-1)
Saturday, March 16 • 5 p.m. PT • Memorial Stadium
TV: Pac-12 Network | Game Notes

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STANFORD, Calif. - No. 18 Stanford women's lacrosse heads to Berkeley for its first Pac-12 road contest of the year. The opening draw control with Cal is set for 5 p.m., and the game will be televised on Pac-12 Network.

 

MATCHUP

  • Stanford is 34-7 all-time against Cal. The Cardinal has won 16 straight in the series dating back to Cal's last win on Feb. 23, 2008, 11-9, in Berkeley. Stanford won 21-5 on The Farm and 17-7 in Berkeley last season. 
  • Stanford and Cal have played five common opponents this season. Both teams lost to Colorad and Denver and defeated Oregon and UC Davis, but Stanford beat Fresno State, 17-7 on Feb. 21, while Cal lost to the Bulldogs, 14-13 on Feb. 15.

 

DRAW CONTROL DUO

  • Seniors Genesis Lucero and Julia Massaro are both within striking distance of the program's all-time career record for draw controls.
  • The pair each entered the season in fourth-place in the Stanford record book with 121 draw controls. 
  • Both have moved up a spot in the record book this year, passing Kelly Myers (2015-18), who had 123 during her career. Massaro is now third all-time in Stanford history with 157 draw controls, while Lucero is currently fourth with with 146.
  • Next on the list for the draw control duo is Lucy Dikeou, who finished two shy of the school record with 159 draw controls between 2013-16. Kelsey Twist (2002-05) holds the record at 161.
  • Last season, Julia Massaro set the single-season school record for draw controls with 86. She suprassed Lucy Dikeou, who had 64 in 2015. Then-junior Genesis Lucero also broke Dikeou's record with her 67 draw controls in 2018. 
  • Massaro is five draw controls from the program's career record and she loves setting records against Cal. In the same game she set the Stanford single-season record last year, Massaro set the Stanford single-game standard with 11 draw controls against Cal on April 20.


SEASON NOTABLES

  • Stanford's only losses this season were to ranked teams—against No. 23 Colorado and at the buzzer in the season opener against now-No. 11 Denver.
  • Stanford's 15-12 victory at No. 10 Stony Brook on March 3 was the program's first road victory over a top 10 opponent since Feb. 28, 2015 at No. 10 Ohio State (12-10). It also halted Stony Brook's 33-game home winning streak at LaValle Stadium, which dated back to 2016.
  • The Cardinal won four straight from Feb. 21-March 3 and has had at least one four-game winning streak in all 11 seasons under head coach Amy Bokker.
  • Stanford leads the Pac-12 in assists per game (7.50), points per game (21.7), shot percentage (.457) and draw controls per game (15.8).
  • Ali Baiocco is second in the Pac-12 in goals per game (3.3), assists per game (1.5) and points per game (4.8). 
  • Julia Massaro is second in the league with 5.33 draw controls per game.

 

PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARDS

  • Stanford swept the Pac-12 Player of the Week awards for the fourth time in the two-year history of the awards on March 4. Sophomores Ali Baiocco and Trudie Grattan won offensive and defensive recognition, respectively.
  • Grattan also won the honor on Feb. 25 and is the first Pac-12 goalkeeper to win the weekly Pac-12 award in back-to-back weeks and just the second player (any position) to win two straight defensive honors. 
  • Baiocco earned her second career weekly conference award. She was also a recipient last season and is the first Cardinal to win offensive honors since Kelsey Murray on March 5, 2018.

 

PINK GAME/ONE LOVE

  • Stanford hosted its Pink Game on Feb. 21 to raise awareness for breast cancer. The team wore pink socks, pink laces and pink warmup shirts, and the field lines at Cagan were painted pink. The scoreboard and game programs were also pink as Stanford beat Fresno State, 17-7.
  • Stanford hosted its One Love game to raise awareness for relationship violence on March 8. The team wore blue shirts and laces, the field lines were painted blue and the scoreboard was turned blue.


TEAM USA VISIT

  • Stanford hosted Team USA at the US Lacrosse Spring Premiere, Jan. 25-27. 
  • The event featured the U.S. women's national team and U19 team as well as the English National Team, the Japanese developmental team, Fresno State University and the defending Pac-12 tournament champion Stanford Cardinal.
  • Stanford played an exhibition against Team USA and the U19 team. In two quarters against the U19 squad and four quarters against the national team, the Cardinal fell 19-14. 
  • Stanford assistant coach Kristen Carr played for Team USA, as well as former Stanford assistant Caylee Waters.


TEAM CAPTAINS

  • Representing three different classes, senior Julia Massaro, junior Daniella McMahon, junior Mikaela Watson and sophomore Taylor Scornavacco were selected as 2019 team captains.
  • Head Coach Amy Bokker: "They represent all the leadership qualities that our team values—confidence, authenticity, caring and passion—and are committed to carrying out the culture and leadership put in place by those before them."


SENIOR SUMMERS

  • Areta Buness: Environmental engineering research at Stanford's Spormann Lab in the Clark Center, including sulfate-reducing bacteria in the gut microbiome that serve as biomarkers of inflammation.
  • Genesis Lucero: worked at an engineering firm (Hunsacker and Associates) in San Diego.
  • Julia Massaro: worked as an equity research intern at Morgan Stanley in New York City. 
  • Monika Sivilli: interned for ION Marketing Group, a consumer engagement agency in New York City, and shadowed the CEO of Silicon Alley Media, a communication and PR agency. 
  • As a team, Stanford traveled to Fiji and New Zealand where they held lacrosse clinics, soaked in the culture and participated in some humanitarian efforts.


PICKED TO REPEAT 

  • Defending champion Stanford was picked to finish first in the Pac-12 Preaseason Coaches Poll. 
  • The Cardinal earned five of the six first-place votes and totaled 25 points. Colorado earned the other first-place vote and was picked second with 21 points. USC was selected to finish third (17 points) followed by Oregon (13 points), Cal (8) and Arizona State (6). 
  • Last season, the Cardinal was picked to finish third in the conference and then posted the second-most wins in school history (15-5), which included an 8-2 record in the first Pac-12 regular season, where they finished second and went on to win the Pac-12 Tournament.


SCHEDULE NOTABLES

  • Stanford plays nine of its 16 games at home, including four of its six non-conference contests.
  • Stanford plays four games against NCAA Tournament teams from last season.
  • Stanford will have five TV games this season. The contests at Cal (March 16), at USC (March 25), vs. USC (March 31), at Colorado (April 12) and vs. Cal (April 19) will all be on Pac-12 Networks.


INAUGURAL PAC-12 SEASON

  • 2018 marked the first season in Pac-12 history. The conference consists of Cal, Arizona State, USC, Oregon, Colorado and the Cardinal. Each team played each other home and away for a total of 10 conference games. 
  • Stanford played in the first-ever Pac-12 game at Colorado on March 9. Then-sophomore Daniella McMahon won the conference's opening draw control, but the 18th-ranked Cardinal lost a seven-goal first-half lead and fell to the 19th-ranked Buffaloes, 18-16.
  • In the first-ever Pac-12 game at Cagan Stadium, Stanford knocked off arch rival Cal, 21-5, on March 17.
  • Stanford finished the first-ever Pac-12 regular season in second place with an 8-2 conference record. Both losses came to first-place Colorado. 
  • Stanford won the first-ever Pac-12 Tournament and earned the conference's first automatic NCAA berth. As the No. 2 seed, the Cardinal defeated third-seeded USC, 15-14, in the semifinal on Friday, April 27, and then knocked off host and top-seed Colorado, 15-6, to claim the title on Sunday, April 29.
  • Kelsey Murray and senior goalkeeper Allie DaCar became the first duo from the same team to sweep the Pac-12 weekly awards. Murray was the conference's Offensive Player of the Week, and DaCar earned Defensive Player of the Week honors on March 5. 
  • In all, Stanford had five players combine for seven Pac-12 Player of the Week awards.
  • Stanford led the conference with six All-Pac-12 selections, including the first Pac-12 Attacker of the Year in Kelsey Murray, and the first Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, Ali Baiocco.
  • Stanford was one of two Pac-12 schools to qualify for the NCAA Tournament (Colorado). 


LAST TIME OUT

  • Stanford had its four-game winning streak snapped against No. 23 Colorado, 20-13, in the Pac-12 opener on Friday night at Stanford Stadium.
  • Sophomore goalkeeper Trudie Grattan made 11 saves and sophomore Katherine Gjertsen scored four times to lead Stanford to a 15-8 victory over Oregon on Johnson Turf on Sunday.


UP NEXT

  • The Cardinal travels for its first Pac-12 road weekend when the team heads to Arizona State (Saturday, March 23 at 11 a.m.) and USC (Monday, March 25 at 4 p.m.).
  • Stanford is not home again until a March 29 matchup with Arizona State (7 p.m.).