Isabel King Leads Offense With Career Highs Of Four Goals And Five Points; Callan Fritsch Notches 12 Saves
By: Cal Athletics
The California women's lacrosse team stayed in contention for a spot in the Pac-12 Tournament after a hard-fought 17-13 win over San Diego State (2-13, 1-5 Pac-12) in a key Pac-12 game Saturday on Senior Day at California Memorial Stadium. The victory moved the Bears into a four-way tie for fourth place in the Pac-12 standings with one game remaining in the regular season. The top three finishers among those four teams (Arizona State, Cal, Oregon, UC Davis) will make the six-team field at the Pac-12 Tournament to be played May 1-4 at United Airlines Field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Arizona State, Cal, Oregon and UC Davis can all clinch a spot in the Pac-12 Tournament with a win in their final regular-season games next week, while any of the four who lose their final regular-season game next week will have to advance to the tournament by winning a tiebreaker.
Oregon (8-5, 2-4 Pac-12) plays at No. 21 Colorado (10-4, 4-1 Pac-12) on Friday at 6 pm CDT/5 pm PDT on Pac-12 Mountain. UC Davis (9-6, 2-4 Pac-12) visits Arizona State (7-9, 2-4 Pac-12) on Saturday at Noon MST/PDT, while Cal (5-9, 2-4 Pac-12) treks to No. 18 Stanford (10-3, 6-0 Pac-12) for a 7 pm PDT start in the final regular-season game of the Pac-12 lacrosse season to be televised on Pac-12 Bay Area.
Cal took control of Saturday's high-scoring battle against San Diego State during a stretch where the Golden Bears scored seven of the game's nine goals after the contest had been tied 5-5 early in the second period. Cal's run culminated on Kate Rothman's unassisted goal with 7:55 to go in the second to give the Bears a five-goal lead at 12-7. San Diego State answered with back-to-back goals to cut Cal's lead to 12-9 with 4:07 to go in the third but would never get that close again.
Isabel King had a career-high four goals to lead six Bears with at least two and a total of eight who found the back of the net. King also had an assist to finish with a career-high five points.
Sara Toner's four goals led three Aztecs with two or more each among seven San Diego State players who scored.
