CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (6-10, 1-8 ACC) at NO. 10 STANFORD CARDINAL (12-3, 7-2 ACC) 

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2026 • 6 PM PT
MALONEY FIELD AT LAIRD Q. CAGAN STADIUM (STANFORD, CALIFORNIA)

WATCH
— ACCNX/ESPN+ (Sara Ach, Play-By-Play; Tim Schwartz, Analyst)
 
SENIOR 7
— Cal's seven seniors were honored in a postgame ceremony last Saturday after their final contest at California Memorial Stadium. The seven members of the group - Annette Ciupek, Brynn Gallagher, Avery Hoeft, Josie Lillquist, Clara Page, Chloe Rand and Courtney Wong - will play in their final collegiate lacrosse game at any location on Thursday at Stanford.
 
CALIFORNIA-STANFORD LACROSSE HISTORY
— Stanford holds a 44-7 lead in the all-time series history, including a 19-4 win in the most recent meeting, a 19-4 victory in Berkeley on April 17, 2025.
— The last Cal victory was an 11-9 triumph in Berkeley on Feb. 23, 2008. The Cardinal has won 27 in a row since and has never lost to the Golden Bears on The Farm.
— One other especially notable Cal victory in the series was an 11-10 win in the title game of the MPSF Championships in Berkeley on May 8, 2024
— Cal is playing Stanford in its regular-season finale for an eighth straight season (not including the 2020 COVID campaign). The last time the Bears finished a full regular season with a different opponent was when they hosted Colorado in 2017.
                                                                                                                                                
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 MORE WIN WOULD MEAN
— 1 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.
                                                                                                                                                       
LAST GAME: VIRGINIA TECH 10, CAL 5 (APRIL 11, 2026)
— The game did not have a lot of scoring, but the afternoon did have a taste of just about everything else, including heavy rain and winds mixed in with a spot or two of sunshine, and an emotional postgame senior ceremony.
— 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.
— Cal got single goals from Katie Bloomer, Josie Lillquist, Meaghan Lynch, Jane Middleton and Courtney Wong. Avery Hoeft was the only Cal player with multiple points on a pair of assists that were her team and career-high 21st and 22nd of the season, while Alina Hsu also had one assist.
 
RANKED AND UNRANKED OPPONENTS
— Stanford will be the seventh ranked team Cal has played in 2026 and the Bears are still looking for their first victory against a ranked squad this season. Cal finished 6-4 against unranked opponents, including victories over San Diego State, Florida State, Oregon, Stonehill, Marist and Xavier, and losses to unranked teams UC Davis, USC and Louisville. 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.
 
TRIO OF WONG, HOEFT LEADING OFFENSE
— Courtney Wong has posted career highs and is Cal's leader in points (41) and goals (25) through 16 games. She also has a career-high-tying 16 assists and is second on the team, six behind Avery Hoeft's team and career-high 22. Hoeft also has nine goals and is second on the team with a career-high 31 points. Emily Moes is second on the team with 20 goals and third with 30 points, adding a career-high 10 assists, although she has missed the last three games.

WONG IN SINGLE-SEASON TOP 10 IN DRAW CONTROLS
— Courtney Wong's 68 draw controls currently rank her 10th on Cal's all-time single-season list. Wong is within four draw controls of the 72 recorded by Megan Takacs in 2013 for ninth and within nine draw three others. Wong had a career-high 12 draw controls March 9 against Stonehill with other top games including contests at Oregon (9) and San Diego State (7). Kennedy Goss holds Cal's all-time single-season record of 83 set in 2023.
 
PAGE THIRD IN ACC IN GROUND BALLS, T14TH NATIONALLY; CAL 4TH AND 21ST
— Clara Page ranks third in the ACC in ground balls and tied for 14th nationally with a career-high 42 that are also ninth on Cal's all-time single-season list. In addition, Page ranks third in the conference in ground balls per game (2.63). As a team, Cal is fourth in the ACC and 21st nationally with 247 ground balls.