Cal Sweeps Pool at PAC 7s

PAC Sevens Tournament Championship
Sun. Nov. 3
North Athletic Field, UCLA
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Sun. Cal Schedule: cup semifinal vs. Oregon State 11 a.m.; cup final Cal/OSU winner vs. UCLA/ASU winner 1 p.m. (all PT)

LOS ANGELES - California scored 28 tries and surrendered only three over four matches, sweeping Pool A Saturday at UCLA to advance to Sunday’s cup semifinals at the PAC Sevens Tournament.

The Golden Bears (12-2) face Oregon State at 11 a.m. Sunday on North Athletic Field, while the Bruins and Arizona State square off in the other semifinal at 10:40 a.m. The two semi winners will then play at 1 p.m. for the conference 7s crown.

Cal opened its PAC Sevens account Saturday morning with a 10-try, 66-0 win over USC. Lucas Dunne, Nicklas Boyer and Jared Braun each scored a pair of tries against the Trojans.

Next up against the Huskies, Jesse Milne recorded two tries and the Cal defense held UW scoreless as the Bears defeated Washington, 33-0.

Against Colorado, Cal played solid cover defense over the opening two minutes before Harry Adolphus scored the first of his two tries. The Bears notched six tries and remained staunch before yielding the first score of the day by the opposition when CU’s Jack Porter dotted down at the end of the match for a 38-5 final score.

In its pool-play finale vs. the Sun Devils, Josh Tucker chased down and collected his own kick, then offloaded to Alec Gletzer in the second minute for the game’s first try. The Bears scored six tries in all against ASU, including a second by Gletzer, which offset two tries by the Devils’ Ryan Koewler in a 32-12 victory.

“We wanted to push it hard, close out games and keep going through the fatigue,” said Brad Harrington, who scored a try and intercepted an ASU pass to set up Cal’s final try of the day by Eakalafi Okusi. Harrington added the punctuating conversion.

“We played hard and put in a good effort,” added Boyer, who also scored a try against the Buffaloes. “We still need to improve to advance past the semifinal but overall it was a good day.”

The Scoring Timeline vs. USC

01:00 Lucas Dunne 5, Harry Adolphus 2

03:00 Harry Adolphus 5, 2

05:00 Lucas Dunne 5, Harry Adolphus 2

06:00 Carl Hendrickson 5, Harry Adolphus 2

Halftime Score: California 28, USC 0

08:00 Eakalafi Okusi 5

10:00 Nicklas Boyer 5

11:00 Andre Coquillard 5, 2

12:00 Jared Braun 5, Nicklas Boyer 2

13:00 Nicklas Boyer 5, 2

14:00 Jared Braun 5, Nicklas Boyer 2

Final Score: California 66, USC 0

The Team vs. USC

1. Hendrickson, 2. Braun, 3. Coquillard, 4. Boyer, 5. Adolphus, 6. Okusi, 7. Dunne

Replacements: A. Salaber

The Scoring Timeline vs. Washington

02:00 Josh Tucker 5, Russell Webb 2

04:00 Jesse Milne 5, Russell Webb 2

05:00 Anthony Salaber 5, Russell Webb 2

Halftime Score: California 21, Washington 0

09:00 Jesse Milne 5, Russell Webb 2

13:00 Brad Harrington 5

Final Score: California 33, Washington 0

The Team vs. Washington

1. Gletzer, 2. Harrington, 3. A. Salaber, 4. Webb, 5. Anderson, 6. Milne, 7. Tucker

Replacements: Braun, Coquillard, Dunne, Okusi

The Scoring Timeline vs. Colorado

02:00 Harry Adolphus 5, Russell Webb 2

04:00 Jesse Milne 5, Russell Webb 2

05:00 Harry Adolphus 5

06:00 Anthony Salaber 5, Russell Webb 2

Halftime Score: California 26, Colorado 0

08:00 Andre Coquillard 5, Nicklas Boyer 2

09:00 Nicklas Boyer 5

14:00 Colorado (Jack Porter) 5

Final Score: California 38, Colorado 5

The Team vs. Colorado

1. Hendrickson, 2. Battaglia, 3. Milne, 4. Boyer, 5. Webb, 6. A. Salaber, 7. Adolphus

Replacements: Okusi, Dunne, Coquillard, Braun

The Scoring Timeline vs. ASU

02:00 Alec Gletzer 5

03:00 Brad Harrington 5, Andre Coquillard 2

04:00 Alec Gletzer 5

Halftime Score: California 17, ASU

08:00 Andre Coquillard 5

11:00 ASU (Ryan Koewler) 5, (Eric Brown) 2

12:00 Carl Hendrickson 5

13:00 ASU (Ryan Koewler) 5

14:00 Eakalafi Okusi 5, Brad Harrington 2

Final Score: California 34, ASU 12

The Team vs. ASU

1. Gletzer, 2. Harrington, 3. Coquillard, 4. Boyer, 5. Adolphus, 6. Anderson, 7. Tucker

Replacements: Braun, Dunne, Okusi, Hendrickson

Saturday Scores
California 66, USC 0
ASU 17, Colorado 12
UCLA 38 , Stanford 0
Arizona 31, Oregon 7
California 33, Washington 0
ASU 26, USC 5
UCLA 41, Oregon State 0
Stanford 20, Arizona 7
Washington 30, USC 17
California 38, Colorado 5
Oregon State 36, Stanford 0
UCLA 45, Oregon 0
Washington 7, ASU 5
Colorado 43, USC 7
Oregon State 24, Arizona 10
Oregon 38, Stanford 7
California 32, ASU 12
Washington 12, Colorado 10
UCLA 41, Arizona 0
Oregon State 19, Oregon 10