STANFORD CARDINAL (9-7, 7-2 PAC-12) at CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (5-11, 2-7 PAC-12)
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023 • 3 PM PDT
CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUM • BERKELEY, CA

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CAL ENDS REGULAR SEASON WITH SENIOR DAY AGAINST STANFORD 
— Cal concludes regular-season and Pac-12 action Friday against the same Stanford squad it began its 10-game conference slate with when the Cardinal was a 20-8 winner in the Pac-12 opener for both teams February 15 on The Farm.
— Friday's regular-season finale for both teams will also mark Senior Day with seniors from Cal and Stanford to be recognized in a pre-game ceremony. The nine Cal seniors honored will be Brooke Baker, Siena Davies, Olivia Dey, Riley Drullinger, Maya Lawliss, Quinnlyn Mason, Kelly McIntyre, Amanda Morse, and Kacie Riggs.
— Stanford leads the all-time series 41-7 and has won 24 in a row overall against the Golden Bears, including 10 straight in Berkeley. Cal's last home win in the series came on February 23, 2008.
— The daily weather forecast for Friday in Berkeley is calling for partly cloudy skies, a high temperature of 75 and a low of 50 degrees, and winds out of the west and southwest at 10 miles per hour.

LAST TIME OUT: COLORADO STOPS GOLDEN BEARS, 19-9  
— Cal had its two-game win streak stopped with a 19-9 home loss to Colorado last Sunday. The Bears entered the game looking for three straight wins for the first time since 2019 and their first back-to-back Pac-12 wins ever in a conference that began sponsoring lacrosse in 2018.
— Cal stayed within striking distance down 12-8 midway through the third quarter before Colorado scored six consecutive goals to take control. 
— Maya Lawliss led Cal with three goals, Kennedy Mason had a pair and Quinnlyn Mason also scored two points with one goal and the Bears' lone assist. Mya Wang, Amanda Morse and Josie Lillquist each scored a single goal.
— Cal's draw-control game kept the Bears close. At one point, Cal held a 14-2 lead in draw controls and ended the game with a 19-11 advantage. Cal spread the wealth with Kennedy Goss, Kalena Johnson and Courtney Wong picking up five apiece. Cal's draw control team also held Colorado's Zoe McElhaney, who ranks second in the Pac-12 in draw controls, to only one.

A LOOK AHEAD TO THE PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP
— Cal is hosting the Pac-12 Championship for the first time May 3-6. The Bears have locked up the No. 5 seed and will play fourth-seeded Arizona State in one of two May 3 quarterfinals (4:30/7 p.m.). The top two seeds will have quarterfinal byes and will play in the semifinals (4:30/7 p.m.) against the winners of Thursday's two quarterfinals. The finals will be held May 6 (Noon). A full bracket will be announced following the conclusion of regular-season play on April 28.

OTHER NOTABLES
— Friday's game is the third in a stretch of up to as many as six consecutive Cal contests in Berkeley that started with a win against Oregon on April 21.
— Riley Drullinger saved Cal's dramatic 14-13 home victory over Oregon on April 21 when she turned back a free position shot by the Ducks' Katie Collins with four seconds remaining. Drullinger finished with 18 saves on 40 Ducks' shots to surpass the previous career high of 14 she had recorded on four occasions.
 — Kennedy Goss became Cal's all-time draw controls leader April 15 at UC Davis and now has 193 in her career. Goss is seven draw controls shy of the school's single-season record of 81 set by Eliza Christman in 2019 and needs six more to match her own career-high of 80 in 2022.
— Cal is 5-0 when scoring at least 13 goals.
— Cal's five wins in 2023 are its most since going 7-12 in 2019.
— Six Cal players have started all 16 games this season (Goss, Maya Lawliss, Kennedy Mason, Quinnlyn Mason, Amanda Morse, Kacie Riggs).
— Lawliss became the first Cal player to be named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week when the league's first weekly honors of the 2023 campaign were announced on Feb. 14.
— Head coach Jennifer Wong picked up her first win at Cal in the season opener and her Cal debut Feb. 10 at Lindenwood, got her second and first home victory March 9 against Howard, and her third and first Pac-12 win March 17 at Oregon.
— Cal is celebrating its 25th season of lacrosse in 2023, with the program first gaining intercollegiate status in 1999 as a member of the Western Women's Lacrosse League.