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Jack Deely led No. 3 Cal to a 13-6 road victory at No. 7 Pacific with five goals on as many shots.
MPOLO9/11/2021 7:51 PM | By: Cal Athletics
Bears Earn Wire-To-Wire Road Victory At Pacific
Jack Deely, Adrian Weinberg Power No. 3 Cal To Top-10 Win Over No. 7 Tigers
STOCKTON, Calif. –
Jack Deely's six-goal effort and 13 saves by
Adrian Weinberg in his season debut highlighted No. 3 California's wire-to-wire road victory over seventh-ranked Pacific at Chris Kjeldsen Pool on Saturday night.
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The Golden Bears (5-0) won their fifth-consecutive match to open the season after capturing four wins at the Navy Open last weekend, while Pacific dropped to 2-2. Cal never wavered, scoring at least twice each period behind goals from seven different Bears.
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Deely set the tone with back-to-back goals in the second minute of the match and Cal found itself in front, 4-2, after the first period of play. Deely earned a hat trick less than nine minutes into the match as he pushed Cal ahead, 5-2, at the 7:11-mark of the second period before adding a 5-meter goal three seconds ahead of halftime. Cal entered the intermission with a comfortable 8-4 advantage.
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Weinberg – who made his season debut in goal after competing alongside
Sam Untrecht and
George Avakian with the USA Junior National Team at the FINA Junior World Championships – looked sharp early, tallying six saves in the second period. The 2019 All-America honorable mention saved 13 of Pacific's 19 shots on goal over 32 minutes while earning the win.
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Goals from
Warren Loth and
Nikos Delagrammatikas extended the Cal advantage to 10-4 by the 2:28-mark of the third period. Over the final 16 minutes, Cal limited Pacific to just two goals while netting three in the third and a pair in the fourth frame.
Nikolaos Papanikolaou (2) and
Jake Stone (2) had multi-goal efforts to flank Deely's six-goal outburst.
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Cal is back in action on Sunday, Sept. 12, when it hosts No. 11-ranked San Jose State at 1 p.m. PT at Spieker Aquatics Complex. It will be the Bears' first home match with fans allowed at the facility in over 650 days since hosting the 2019 MPSF Championships on Nov. 22-24, 2019.
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No. 3 Cal 13, No. 7 Pacific 6
Cal 4 4 3 2 – 13
UOP 2 2 1 1 – 6
Cal Goals:
Jack Deely 6,
Nikolaos Papanikolaou 2,
Jake Stone 2,
Miles O'Brien-Schridde,
Nikos Delagrammatikas,
Warren Loth
UOP Goals: D'Souza 2, Djerkovic, Cote, Vukacic, Hosmer
Win:
Adrian Weinberg (13 saves)
Loss: John Hedges (10 saves)
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