April 1, 2011
Box Score
STANFORD, Calif. -
Despite a career-high four goals and four points from freshman Amelia Burke, California lost to rival and ninth-ranked Stanford, 19-11, on Friday night at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. The result snapped the Golden Bears' three-game winning streak and gave them an 8-5 record (2-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation). Stanford improved to 10-1 (2-0 in the MPSF).
"Stanford is a good team, and they came ready to play from the first whistle," Cal head coach Theresa Sherry said. "We came out flat and dug ourselves a hole, and it was too big for us to come back from in the second half. We had some players to some good things - Chippy [Amelia Burke] scoring goals and Alexa Rozelle and others coming up with some draws at the end, but it was too little, too late."
This marked the first multi-goal game of Burke's career. Sophomore midfielder Megan Takacs tied the freshman for team-high scoring honors with four points from two goals and two assists.
Stanford's Lauren Schmidt posted game highs with five goals and six points.
The Cardinal bolted out to a four lead before Cal scored its first goal at the 7:03 mark of the first half, when sophomore attacker Alexa Rozelle scored off a Takacs assist to make the score 4-1. Takacs later set up Burke for her first goal of the night to make the score 5-2 at 10:59.
Down 8-2 at 16:50, Cal rallied to score three of the game's next three goals - from junior midfielder Vail Horn at 19:08, Burke (free-position goal) at 22:47 and Takacs at 24:28 - to pull within four of the Cardinal at 9-5.
But Stanford posted the last four goals of the half to take a 13-5 lead into the break.
The Bears traded goals with the Cardinal in the second half to trail 15-7; Burke converted a free-position shot at 31:39 and Horn struck at 35:57. Each team scored four goals the rest of the way, with Cal's coming from sophomore attacker Gina Holslag (free-position goal at 50:32), Burke at 51:09, Takacs at 55:25 and Rozelle at 57:44. The Bears tied Stanford, 6-6, in the second half, but they could not overcome the eight-goal first-half deficit and lost, 19-11.
Senior goalkeeper Allie Shropshire made eight saves in a little more than 42 minutes in the cage, while freshman teammate Megan McGinnis made 3 saves in less than 18 minutes of play.
Cal continues MPSF action when it hosts Oregon on April 8.
