Top-25 contests highlight week two of Conference play

Oct 6, 2015

• In the opening weekend of Conference play, OREGON STATE captured two wins, climbing atop league standings for the first time since 2005. STANFORD opened the weekend with one win, while WASHINGTON and UCLA split their opening contests.

• STANFORD leads the league with its No. 3 NSCAA ranking, and OREGON STATE jumped back into the polls to No. 16 and WASHINGTON dropped two spots to No. 17. Additionally, CALIFORNIA received votes in the coaches' poll.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Friday, Oct. 9	TV	Time
No. 16 OREGON STATE at CALIFORNIA	PAC12/PACBA/PACOR	3:30 p.m. PT
No. 17 WASHINGTON at No. 3 STANFORD	PAC12/PACBA/PACWA	8 p.m. PT
Sunday, Oct. 11
No. 16 OREGON STATE at No. 3 STANFORD	PAC12/PACBA/PACOR	1 p.m. PT
No. 17 WASHINGTON at CALIFORNIA	PAC12/PACBA/PACWA	3 p.m. PT
Monday, Oct. 12
SAN DIEGO STATE at UCLA	PAC12	7 p.m. PT

PAC12/PACAZ/PACBA/PACLA/PACMT/PACOR/PACWA - Indicates live broadcast on Pac-12 Networks.

CONFERENCE STANDINGS (Expanded standings)

Teams	Points	Pac-12 Record	Overall Record
No. 16 Oregon State	6	2-0-0	7-3-0
No. 3 Stanford	3	1-0-0	8-1-0
No. 17 Washington	3	1-1-0	5-2-3
UCLA	3	1-1-0	5-5-0
California	0	0-1-0	5-3-0
San Diego State	0	0-2-0	5-3-2

• PLAYER OF THE WEEK: OSU's Jalen Markey, a sophomore defender from Seattle, Wash., helped anchor an Oregon State back-line that did not allow a goal in the opening weekend of Pac-12 play and send the Beavers to 2-0. Oregon State comes back in the national rankings, this time at No. 16.

• UCLA clinched its first Conference victory, a 3-2 road win over Washington. Freshman MF Jose Hernandez scored his first goal on a penalty kick and rebounded his second penalty kick attempt for his second goal of the game to win it in the 107th minute. Hernandez now leads all Pac-12 freshmen in points (11) and is now second on the team in points and goals (5).

• No. 3 Stanford has now won eight-straight matches after beating California, 2-1 in Berkeley. The win marks the Cardinal's longest streak since 2001.

• California's Jose Carrera-Garcia ranks T2nd nationally in assists per game, coming in at .75. As a team, The Golden Bears lead the nation in assists per game at 2.63. Of California's 16 goals to date, only two were unassisted.

• Washington split its opening weekend of league competition, topping SDSU 1-0 but falling to UCLA 3-2. The Huskies rank fifth nationally in shutout percentage at 70% and have not given up a non-set piece goal in league play.

• Despite opening Pac-12 play at 0-2, San Diego State has only allowed multiple goals once this season. Redshirt senior forward Rene Reyes has netted four goals on the year, tied for fourth in the Conference.

• COMPLETE CAMPAIGN: Pac-12 students are known for their success on the field, but they are also impressive, complete people with outside interests, diverse backgrounds, extracurricular activities, interesting families, busy schedules, and full lives.

• The Pac-12 Network will broadcast 35 matches in 2015. UCLA alumnus and former MLS player Cobi Jones will continue to cover all the action on the Networks alongside analysts Christopher Sullivan and Kelly Gray. Rich Cellini and JB Long continue play-by-play duties, along with Miles, Jim Watson, Rich Burk and Troy Clardy.

AROUND THE LEAGUE

• The Beavers' SO D Jalen Markey was named to TopDrawerSoccer's Team of the Week.

• Pac-12 Networks' Sports Report will unveil the Pac-12 All-Century Men's Soccer Team, Oct. 19.

• Stanford's Jordan Morris scored two goals in the 3-1 victory over Canada, as the U.S. U-23 Men's National Team attempts to qualify for the 2016 Olympics.

• Morris, a Type 1 diabetic, is also lending his support to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) “T1D Looks Like Me Campaign” for National Diabetes Awareness Month (NDAM) in November. Among a number of different pieces to the awareness push, Morris will be featured in a Times Square display ad the first week of the month.

• Stanford Sr. D Brandon Vincent was one of 30 NCAA men’s soccer student-athletes selected as a candidate for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award®, announced Sept. 3.

• San Diego State's head coach Lev Kirshner’s alma mater, Rutgers, inducted its 1990 men’s soccer team in to the Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame. Kirshner was a senior on that team, which advanced to the NCAA Championship match before falling to UCLA on penalty kicks.

PAC-12 PLAYER OF THE WEEK

THIS WEEK:
Sophomore defender Jalen Markey, OSU

ALSO NOMINATED:

Also Nominated: Foster Langsdorf, STAN; Jose Hernandez, UCLA; Danny Gavin, WASH

2015 PAC-12 MEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Date	Student-Athlete
Sept. 1	Mikhail Doholis, F, Oregon State
Sept. 8	Andrew Epstein, GK, Stanford
Sept. 15	Timmy Mueller, F, Oregon State
Sept. 22	Jose Carrera-Garcia, M, California
Sept. 29	Seyi Adekoya, F, UCLA
Oct. 6	Jalen Markey, D, Oregon State