CALIFORNIA-STONEHILL LACROSSE HISTORY
— Cal and Stonehill are meeting for the first time ever.
 
MONDAY MATINEE
— Cal has three Monday home games scheduled this year with one already in the books against UC Davis (Feb. 23), as well as two upcoming on each of the next two Mondays against Stonehill (March 9) and Marist (March 16). Prior to this season, the last time the Golden Bears had played at home on a Monday was when they were a 12-7 winner over Robert Morris on March 5, 2018.
 
LAST TIME OUT: NO. 10 BOSTON COLLEGE 15, CAL 8 (MARCH 7, 2026)
— Cal stayed within striking distance of No. 10 Boston College until late in the third period of an ACC game on a gorgeous afternoon at California Memorial Stadium in its most recent action Saturday before an eventual 15-8 loss.
— The Bears trailed 6-4 at halftime and were still down only 7-5 late in the third period until the Eagles used a four-goal run over a stretch of three minutes and 26 seconds late in the third period and early in fourth to pull away.
— Eight different Cal players – Katie Bloomer, Willow Cyr, Juliana Doran, Avery Hoeft, Alina Hsu, Katie McMullen, Emily Moes and Maddie Willkomm – scored a single goal for the Bears. Doran's goal was the first of her collegiate career, while the goals for Cyr and Hsu were their firsts of the season.
 
SEASON-LONG FOUR-GAME HOMESTAND
— Cal is in the midst of a season-long four-game homestand over a 10-day period that began with Saturday's loss to No. 10 Boston College and continues with nonconference contests against Stonehill (March 9) and Marist (March 16) sandwiching a visit from No. 1 North Carolina (March 12).  
 
NONCONFERENCE SUCCESS
— Cal has an 8-3 record in nonconference games over the last two seasons since joining the ACC prior to the 2025 campaign, posting a 6-1 mark in 2025 and a 2-2 record through its first four nonconference contests of 2026. The Bears have three regular season nonconference games remaining in 2026 beginning with Monday's matchup against Stonehill and followed by a home contest against Marist (March 16) and a road game at Xavier (March 24).                                                                                                                                                                                        
 
SCHEDULE SHIFT
— Cal played its first five games of the 2026 regular season against unranked opponents but starting with its Feb. 28 contest at No. 23 Duke will play seven of its final 12 regular-season contests against teams currently ranked in the IWLCA Division I Coaches Poll. Cal has already played and dropped games to No. 23 Duke, No. 15 Syracuse and No. 10 Boston College with contests against No. 1 North Carolina (March 12), No. 6 Notre Dame (March 28), No. 11 Clemson (April 3) and the regular-season finale at No. 2 Stanford (April 16) still on the docket. All seven currently ranked teams on Cal's 2026 schedule played in the 16-team NCAA Championship in 2025, with North Carolina winning the national title and Boston College reaching the semifinals.   
 
ONE-GOAL GAMES
— Three of Cal's first five games 2026 were decided by a single goal with the Bears winning its first two at San Diego State (13-12) and at home against Florida State (10-9) before falling 13-12 to UC Davis in its most recent one-goal contest.   
 
WONG AND MOES LEADING OFFENSE BUT QUIET IN LAST TWO GAMES
— Courtney Wong (27 points – 13 goals, 14 assists) is Cal's leader in assists and points through the first eight games of 2026, while she is second in goals behind only Emily Moes (18 points – 14 goals, 4 assists). Despite their success this season, Wong and Moes have combined for just three points in the last two games at No. 15 Syracuse and against No. 10 Boston College on two Moes goals and one Wong assist.  

HOEFT EMERGING
— Avery Hoeft has been Cal's leading scorer over the three games with seven points and has 11 over the last five. Hoeft, who is third on the team overall with 15 points while her nine assists are second, started the run with a season-high four points on two goals and two assists in a win at Oregon on Feb. 19, while she added three points on one goal and two assists both at Duke and against Boston College, as well as one assist at Syracuse.
 
THE DRAW CIRCLE AND DEFENSE
— Cal has been led in the draw circle in 2026 by the trio of Courtney Wong (39 draw controls), Ashleigh Masterson (26) and Grace Kerr (15). Clara Page paces the team with 27 ground balls and her eight caused turnovers share the team lead with Kennedy Herndon.
 
LULU MURPHY LEADS NATION'S FRESHMEN, NO. 10 OVERALL IN SAVES
— Lulu Murphy leads the nation's freshman goalkeepers and ranks 10th overall nationally with 65 saves through eight games. Murphy is the first freshman to serve as Cal's primary starter in goal since Jenny Wilkens in 2016. Lily Rathbun also saw just over half of the team's action in net as a 2021 freshman.
 
LINEUP CHANGE
— Cal had the same starting lineup in each of its first seven games in 2026 (Attack – Josie Lillquist, Ashleigh Masterson, Emily Moes, Courtney Wong; Midfifeld – Katie Bloomer, Annette Ciupek, Willow Cyr; Defense – Kennedy Herndon, Grace Kerr, Clara Page, Ari Tavoso; and Goalkeeper – Lulu Murphy. In game eight against Boston College, Avery Hoeft and Jane Middleton started in place of Lillquist and Cyr.
 
WEATHER REPORT
— The AccuWeather forecast for Berkeley on Monday at first draw at 3 pm PT calls for mostly sunny skies, a 0% chance of precipitation, a temperature of 69 degrees, and winds out of the west at 9 miles per hour.
— Four of Cal's first eight games and each of the last three have been in weather of either 70 degrees or above at first draw (at USC, at Duke; Boston College) or indoors (at Syracuse).
— The differences in weather the Bears played in during two back-to-back road games earlier this season was dramatic. On Feb. 8 at USC in Los Angeles, it was 81 degrees under sunny skies at first draw before dropping 40 degrees to 41 in Eugene, Oregon, 11 days later on Feb. 19.  
  
HEAD COACH JENNIFER WONG
— Jennifer Wong is in her fourth season as the Cal lacrosse head coach in 2026. In each of her first three campaigns with the Bears, Wong's team has posted a better record than in the previous season.
— Wong is the only head coach in Cal lacrosse history to have won the season opener in each of her first four campaigns.
— Wong led Cal to its first-ever ACC win this season with a 10-9 victory over Florida State on Feb. 13.
— Wong was named Cal's head coach on Aug. 30, 2022, following a long and successful coaching tenure on the staff at Temple, where she spent 14 campaigns as an assistant (2008-09, 2011-15) and associate head coach (2016-22) over two stints.
 
THE ROAD WELL-TRAVELED
— Cal's most recent two-game road trip at Duke (Feb. 28) and Syracuse (March 3) was its third of four trips outside the Bay Area during the 2026 regular-season. Cal has also made visits to San Diego State/USC (Feb. 6, 8) and Oregon (Feb. 19), while the team's final regular-season road trip out of the Bay Area is a three-game, eight-day journey March 21-28 at Louisville (March 21), Xavier (March 24) and Notre Dame (March 28). Cal also has a trip across the Bay for its regular-season finale at Stanford on Apr. 16.
 
LONG TRIPS TO BERKELEY
— Cal has eight scheduled games at California Memorial Stadium in 2026 with seven teams visiting from more than 2,500 miles away. UC Davis is Cal's only home opponent in the Pacific Time Zone and just over 60 miles away.
 
MASSACHUSETTS HOMETOWN HEROES
— Two of Cal's starters – M Willow Cyr and GK Lulu Murphy – hail from the Boston suburbs and not far from where Cal's most recent two opponents (Boston College, Stonehill) are located. Cyr prepped at Concord Carlisle High School in Carlisle, where she was a team captain and an Academic All-American as a 2022 senior. Murphy was a three-time all-league player at Winchester High School in Winchester.
 
A LITTLE MORE
— Cal has had a lot of success against Boston College during the 2025-26 academic year with the Bears a combined 6-1 against the Eagles in men's basketball, women's basketball, field hockey, football, volleyball, men's soccer and women's soccer.
 
PAGE LEADING THE DEFENSE
— Clara Page has led the defense through the first seven games with 24 ground balls and a team-high-tying eight caused turnovers along with Kennedy Herndon.