BERKELEY – The season's third overtime game resulted in California's first win against a top-25 opponent on Saturday night.
 
In the 100' of action, Christian Thierjung, the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week, put one in the net off an assist from Spencer Held to rout No. 25 UC Santa Barbara 3-2 in the Golden Bears first road win.
 
Cal (4-2-1) trailed twice in the game, but was able to rebound after tough goalie play by Jonathan Klinsmann kept the Bears in the game.
 
Jose Carrera-Garcia notched the equalizer in the 63' on a rebound assist from Aravind Sivakumar, while Nick Lima hit another to tie things up at 2-2 in the 86'.
 
Klinsmann, who played the entire game, recorded eight saves against stout attacks from the Gauchos (4-5-0). UCSB's Kevin Feucht and Nick DePuy scored in the 59' and 77', respectively.

"It was a fanstastic game between two very high quality teams," said head coach Kevin Grimes. "We had to dig deep within ourselves to play as well as we did."
 
The Bears now lead the series 6-1 under Grimes with the last meeting coming in 2010 when the Blue and Gold notched an overtime victory in the second round of NCAA play.
 
Cal will open conference season on Oct. 2 at No. 23 Stanford vying for a win after dropping both league matches a season ago.
 
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