The Lumberjacks will be able to enjoy their second weekend in a row and first College Creek Field starting Friday afternoon.

     HSU will have its last successful winning match opponent, San Francisco State, come to campus on Friday, before trying for a better result against Cal State Monterey Bay.

     Tough weekend in the books

     Following an encouraging long road trip the previous weekend, HSU was unable to carry over the momentum on to the home pitch in the last two matches.

     Opening last week's CCAA set of matches, HSU's hopes of notching its first home win of the year—to no avail.

    Cal State Dominguez Hills netted its first goal 13 minutes into the match and added six more unanswered scores en route to a 7-0 victory.

    The visiting Toros stymied the Lumberjacks' attack, while having their way offensively—outshooting the Lumberjacks 33-6. Freshman Ariel Diehl pelted the Cal State Dominguez Hills' goal with four of the six HSU shots.   

     HSU was able to pick themselves up with a much better Sunday performance for all but the final minute.

     HSU kept the Cal State Los Angeles' attack out of the net for 89 minutes—only to fall victim to a last-minute header.

     With extra time looming—and 89:05 coming off the clock—Golden Eagles' forward Amalia Arvidsson took the long left-side pass from defender Janelle Hanna and headed it in the right side of the net to close out the Lumberjacks for the women's soccer match's lone score of the day, 1-0.

     HSU looking for scoring gold

     Despite scoring three goals in the season opening victory, the Jacks' offensive output has been "Missing in Action" in the last three weeks of play.

     HSU has totaled only a single Colette Behen tally at Cal Poly Pomona three matches ago over the last 400 minutes of action.

     The Jacks' nine goals over 10 matches puts them in ninth in the 12 team league.

     Lukas sits at league's save leader

     The HSU defense has done some heavy lifting during the team's first 10 matches.  Goalie Kelly Lukas has provided her own share of this lifting in the Jacks net.

    Lukas heads into the next set of CCAA matches as the saves leader with 63.  The sophomore registered 12 saves against CSU Dominguez Hills and followed it by turning away eight attempts by Cal State Los Angeles.

     Weekend's CCAA home matches

     vs. San Francisco State (3-5-2/2-5-1 CCAA)
     (Fri. at 12:30 p.m.):

    Series History: Tied 10-10-3
    Last meeting: HSU 1-0 win on Sept. 15, 2013 in San Francisco ... HSU's Lizzie Mitchell scored at 75:05 on pass from Colette Behen
    Last HSU win: 1-0 in 2006 match at Carson
    Gators 2012 record: 6-8-3/4-8-3 CCAA
    CCAA Preseason Poll: 4th in South

     *Coached by 29th year head coach Jack Hyde
          -led program since its inception in 1982

     *Snapped a three-match losing streak on Sunday with a 1-0 shutout of Chico State

     *Produced lowest amount of goals in CCAA of 5 over 10 matches

    *Sunday's one goal was the team's first in five matches

    *No player has more than one goal scored

    *Goalie Allison Land is second in the CCAA with 53 saves and a .815 save percentage

    
     vs. Cal State Monterey Bay (4-5-1/3-4-1 CCAA North)
    (Sun. at 11:30 a.m.):

    Series History: CSUMB leads 8-5-1
    Last meeting:  CSUMB won 5-2 on Sept. 13, 2013 in Seaside ... the Otters score the first four goals over the opening 65 minutes with HSU goals from Ariel Diehl and Colette Behen
     Last HSU win: 1-0 in second meeting of the 2011 season at Seaside
     Otters 2012 record: 8-9-0/5-9-0 CCAA North
     CCAA Preseason Poll: 3rd in North

     *Coached by 2nd year head coach Erin Reinke

      *Split each of the last two CCAA weekends with wins on Fridays and losses in the Sunday matches ... defeated San Francisco State (1-0) before losing to CSU San Bernardino (1-0)

    *Has only scored more than one goal in one game (against HSU) this season

    *Juliet Murray is second in the CCAA with 8 goals scored

    *Goalie Lily Garza ranks in the top 5 of the CCAA in three categories: T3rd goals against (6), save percentage (.812) and goals against average (0.94)