UCLA Honors Seniors in Regular Season Finale Friday

#1 UCLA vs. #23 Arizona
Marshall Field at Drake Stadium
Friday, Oct. 17 - 7:00 pm PT
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Tickets: $8 adults/$5 youth (ages 3-16).

UCLA Wraps Up Home Schedule Friday
UCLA (12-0-2, 4-0-1 in the Pac-12) will play its final regular season home game on Friday, Oct. 17 against Arizona (9-3-1, 3-2-0 in the Pac-12) at 7pm. The Bruins, who are 9-0-1 at Drake Stadium this year, will end the season with five consecutive road games, although the final one is in Los Angeles against USC.

Arizona is led by Gabi Stoian, who has totaled eight goals and six assists (22 points) on the year, and Alexandra Doller, who has six goals and two assists.

The Bruins lead the overall series with Arizona, 19-1, and have won the last nine in a row. The Wildcats’ only win in the series came in 2004 in Tucson, 1-0.

Senior Salute
Senior Night is coming early, as the Bruins play their final regular season home game on Friday. In pregame ceremonies, UCLA’s No. 1 recruiting class from 2011 will be honored as graduating seniors. This famed recruiting class has more than lived up to its billing, recording a four-year record of 68-5-11 and leading the Bruins to the 2013 NCAA and Pac-12 Championships.

Eight of the nine seniors - Ally Courtnall, Abby Dahlkemper, Caprice Dydasco, Sarah Killion, Sam Mewis, Megan Oyster, Katelyn Rowland and Rosie White - are in the starting lineup. The other - Kylie McCarthy - has played in eight games this year. Three (Dahlkemper, Killion and Rowland) are on the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List and are returning All-Americans. Dahlkemper is the reigning Honda Award winner. Four (Defensive MVP Courtnall, Killion, Oyster and Rowland) were named to the 2013 College Cup All-Tournament team. Two (Killion and Mewis) were called up to the full U.S. Women’s National Team this winter for the Algarve Cup, four (Dahlkemper, Dydasco, Killion, Mewis) played with the U.S. Under-23 team this summer, and Rowland started for the U.S. Under-20s at the FIFA Women’s U-20 World Cup.

In the Rankings
For the ninth-straight week, UCLA is No. 1 across all major polls (NSCAA, Soccer America and Top Drawer Soccer). Arizona ranks No. 23 in Soccer America’s poll.

National Stat Leaders
UCLA ranks third nationally in goals against average (0.277), fifth in shutout percentage (0.714) and ninth in save percentage (0.879). Sam Mewis continues to rank second in game-winning goals with six. Katelyn Rowland is now up to second in goals against average (0.277), while Sarah Killion ranks 17th in assists with nine.

Numbers and Streaks
UCLA in unbeaten in its last 35 games, its last loss coming Sept. 6, 2013 against North Carolina, 1-0, in Durham, N.C. … The 35-game unbeaten streak is a new school record, breaking the record of 25 set between 2011 and 2012, and the sixth-best streak in NCAA history … UCLA has a 24-game unbeaten streak at home, the 19th-longest home unbeaten streak in NCAA history. The Bruins’ last home loss came Oct. 28, 2012 against Stanford (2-1) … The Bruins had a seven-game, 772-minute shutout streak end on Sept. 12 against Wake Forest … UCLA has shut out 15 of their last 20 opponents … The Bruins have scored six goals in the first 15 minutes of play this year, including three in the first 10 minutes … Twenty-three of 32 players on the roster have national team experience.

Record-Setting Rowland
Goalkeeper Katelyn Rowland has been rewriting the record books at UCLA. Her latest record broken was her own, as she broke her school mark for consecutive shutout minutes in a single season with 638. Other records set or tied by Rowland this season are: consecutive shutouts in a single season (6) and career shutouts (46). Rowland set a school record in 2013 for single-season shutouts with 15, and her previous two years’ totals also rank in the school’s Top 10. She just needs one more shutout this season to break into the Top 10 single-season list. Her 46 career shutouts are third-most in NCAA history, and she needs just one more to move into a tie for second place with Virginia’s Chantal Jones (2007-11). The record is 52, held by Wisconsin’s Heather Taggart (1988-91).

Stifling Defense
Not only has UCLA shut out 10 of 14 opponents this year, but the team has allowed just 33 shots on goal all season. The Bruins have held three of their opponents to one shot or less and to just 69 shots all season. Twenty-four of their last 26 opponents have been held to single-digit shot totals.

Bruins Spread Scoring Around
It had been the Sam Mewis show the last couple of weeks, but in a pair of wins over Stanford and California last week, five different goal scorers led the Bruins to important conference wins. Against No. 2/3 Stanford, Ally Courtnall and Annie Alvarado scored their first goals of the year to lead the Bruins to a come-from-behind 2-1 victory. In the Bruins’ 3-0 win over No. 22 Cal, Darian Jenkins, Sarah Killion and Zoey Goralski were the goal-scorers. Mewis assisted on two of the three goals.

Mewis, Killion Climbing Career Charts
Senior midfielders Sam Mewis and Sarah Killion are steadily climbing up the UCLA career lists for assists and points. Mewis has 24 goals, 24 assists and 72 points and needs five points to break into UCLA’s Top 10 for career points. Her 24 assists put her sixth on the career assist list. Killion has moved up to fourth on the career assist list with 29, and her next assist will move her into a tie for third. She already has a Pac-12 best nine assists this season and is just one away from the single-season Top 10. Killion tied the school record for single-game assists with three against LMU (Mewis also has a share of the record). Killion has a goal or assist in eight of 14 games this season.