Cal Visits Oregon Friday

CAL VISITS OREGON FRIDAY
— Cal starts a two-game road trip at Oregon on Friday after playing six of its last seven games at home and all seven of those contests in the Bay Area with the lone road game during the stretch at Stanford on March 11
— Cal's only other road games besides the Stanford trip in 2022 was a season-opening two-game trip at Navy and then No. 11 Virginia to open the campaign
— Oregon holds a 13-7 advantage in the all-time series that began in 2005 and has won each of the last three and 12 of the last 14 meetings between the teams after Cal had won five of the first six
— Cal has dropped each of the last six games played at Oregon and was last a winner against the Ducks in Eugene on April 9, 2010, while the most recent Golden Bears' victory in the series came in Berkeley on March 8, 2019            
— Friday's forecast in Eugene calls for a gametime temperature of 61 degrees with partly cloudy skies and winds out of the west at three miles per hour
  
STRONG SCHEDULE
— Five of Cal's first nine games (at Navy, at Virginia, Denver, at Stanford, USC) have been against teams ranked in the IWLCA/Inside Lacrosse Top 25 at some point during the 2022 season with all currently in the poll (No. 9 Denver, No. 16 Virginia, No. 17 Navy, No. 18 USC, No. 24 Stanford), while Virginia (No. 11), Denver (No. 15) and USC (No. 15) were in the poll at the time Cal played them
— The combined 2022 record of Cal's first nine opponents is 48-31 (.608) with seven posting .500 records or better (Navy 7-2, Virginia 5-6, San Diego State 3-5, Denver 9-1, UC Davis 4-4, Stanford 5-4, Liberty 5-4, USC 6-2, Arizona State 4-3
  
LIZ SCOTT LEADS OFFENSIVE OUTBURST IN MOST RECENT GAME
— Liz Scott registered career highs of seven goals and nine points in a 21-18 home loss to Arizona State in Cal's most recent contest with the 18 goals scored by the Golden Bears their most since also scoring 18 in an 18-8 home victory over Mercer on Feb. 18, 2017
— Ten different Cal players had points in the contest and seven scored goals including Maya Lawliss, who had a career-high-tying five points on three goals and two assists
  
STRONG SHOOTING OF LATE
— Cal has recorded its two highest shooting percentages in its last two games with the Golden Bears connecting for a season-best .563% (18-of-32) in its most recent contest after its previous season-best .529 (9-of-17) in its prior contest against USC
  
ZACCARO CLOSING IN ON ALL-TIME CAL ASSIST AND GAMES PLAYED RECORDS
— Nikki Zaccaro is in her fifth season on the Cal roster and is closing in on school career records for assists and games played with her current total of 80 assists ranking her second and only three behind all-time Cal record holder Colleen O'Mara (83, 2001-04), while her 70 games played are five shy of school record-holder Anna Ellest (75, 2017-21)
— Zaccaro is Cal's active leader in career games played, games started (59), points (139), goals (59), assists, shots (188) and shots on goal (121) 
    
STRONG STARTS
— Cal has started strong in five of its first nine games ...
    — at Virginia (February 13) ... led 3-2 early in the second quarter
    — San Diego State (February 18) ... led 3-1 in the first quarter
    — UC Davis (February 26) ... scored three of the game's first four goals
    — USC (March 13) ... scored each of the game's first two goals
    — Arizona State (March 20) ... established a lead on six different occasions in the first half and led 5-4 after the first quarter and 11-8 at halftime for its first lead after 30 minutes in 2022 

BEARS LEADING OPPONENTS AGAIN IN DRAW CONTROLS
— Cal is outdrawing its opponents for the fourth consecutive season with the Golden Bears holding a 135-132 advantage and outdrawing their opponents in five of their first nine games in 2022