BERKELEY - Returning home for six of the final eight games of the regular season, the California women's lacrosse team will look for some home cooking to snap its three-game losing streak this week. The Golden Bears (4-5, 0-3) will host No. 13 USC and Arizona State in the first-ever matchup between the Bears and the Sun Devils. 

The meeting with the Trojans will mark Cal's third straight game against a ranked team (No. 19 Colorado, No. 19 Stanford). 

Kirsten Swanson is the leading scorer for the Bears at the halfway point of the season. She currently boasts 23 points on 18 goals and five assists. Swanson has also collected six ground balls and caused five turnovers. 

Swanson is one of 11 goal scorers the Bears have this season. Ashley Ward became the 11th against the Cardinal on Saturday with her first collegiate goal. Four of the 11 have 10 or more tallies in 2018.

At Stanford on Saturday, Meredith Haggerty paced the Bears with seven draws, while Elizabeth Koehler scooped up five draws and four ground balls. Haggerty also caused a turnover, which gave her 53 for her career and tied her for fifth all-time in school history. As a team, Cal ranks third in the Pac-12 in caused turnovers per game. 

Haggerty also placed her name on the school's career list for draw controls now with 111 in her career, which ranks seventh in school history and one shy of sixth. Chloe Landry is fifth on that list with 117.

While Haggerty leads the team in caused turnovers with 11, Koehler paces the Bears in ground balls (20) and draws (33).

On Monday, Haggerty was named Cal's Athletic Study Center Scholar-Athlete of the Week for excelling in the classroom as a media studies major, thriving in numerous internships and her work with the One Love Foundation. 

Cal is 1-4 all-time against USC with the lone win for the Bears coming in the first-ever meeting between the two teams, a 10-7 win in Berkeley in 2013. 

The Bears face the Trojans on Friday, March 23, at 5 p.m. and the Sun Devils on Sunday, March 25 at 1 p.m. with both games played at California Memorial Stadium.