VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (8-7, 2-6 ACC) at CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (6-9, 1-7 ACC)

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026 • 3 PM PT
CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUM (BERKELEY, CA)

WATCH
— ACCNX/ESPN+ (Gregory Wong, Play-By-Play; Jill Malko, Analyst)

SENIOR DAY
— Cal will honor seven seniors in a postgame ceremony on Saturday after their final contest at California Memorial Stadium. The group includes Annette Ciupek, Brynn Gallagher, Avery Hoeft, Josie Lillquist, Clara Page, Chloe Rand and Courtney Wong.

CALIFORNIA-VIRGINIA TECH LACROSSE HISTORY
— Cal and Virginia Tech have played just once with the contest coming in Cal's second season as an intercollegiate program with the Hokies a 19-5 winner in Blacksburg, Virginia, on March 29, 2000.

UNRANKED AND RANKED OPPONENTS
— Virginia Tech will be the ninth unranked team Cal has played in 2026. In their first nine meetings, the Bears posted a 6-3 record against teams that were unranked at the time of the game with victories over San Diego State, Florida State, Oregon, Stonehill, Marist and Xavier, and losses to unranked teams UC Davis, USC and Louisville. The Bears are 0-6 against ranked teams, falling in chronological order at No. 23 Duke and No. 15 Syracuse, at home against No. 10 Boston College and No. 1 North Carolina, at No. 13 Notre Dame and at home to No. 11 Clemson. The Bears still have one game remaining on the schedule against a ranked team in the regular-season finale at No. 12 Stanford. 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.              
                                                                                                            
SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENT
— Cal has won six games in each of the last three seasons (2024, '25, '26) to give the Bears six or more wins in three consecutive campaigns for the first time since winning six or more in each of the first 15 seasons of the program (1999-2013).   

WHAT 1, 2 MORE WINS MEAN
— One more win this season will give Cal seven victories in a campaign for the first since the 2019 team finished 7-12. It would also make it four consecutive seasons under head coach Jennifer Wong that the Bears would improve upon their winning percentage from the previous campaign.
— Two more wins in 2026 would get Cal to eight victories for the first time since the 2013 team went 9-7.

LAST GAME: CLEMSON 17, CAL 8 (APRIL 9, 2026)
— Cal trailed 17-2 after three periods before scoring all six of the game's goals in the fourth period.
— Alina Hsu kept Cal within striking distance early on with a pair of goals in the first period on assists from Avery Hoeft and Jane Middleton. The Bears were within 5-2 on Hsu's second goal with 1:21 to go in the first before Clemson rattled off a dozen consecutive goals over the next 22-plus minutes.
— The Tigers would not score again but also kept the Bears scoreless over the next 12:45 before Maddie Willkomm broke through with an unassisted goal with 11:15 to play in the game. Willkomm's goal was the first of six consecutive by Cal to end the game. Avery Hoeft was the next to score on an assist from Juliana Doran before Willkomm assisted on back-to-back goals from Meaghan Lynch and Katie Bloomer. Katie McMullen and Ashleigh Masterson rounded out the game's scoring with unassisted goals.