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UC San Diego has placed a school-record six players on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division II All-West Region Team. In addition, senior forward Sarah McTigue was named to the NSCAA All-America Third Team.
No. 3-seed UC San Diego men's water polo team fell to No. 4-seed Princeton 9-7 in the consolation game of the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship on Sunday at Spieker Aquatics Center on the campus of UC Berkeley. The Tritons finished in fourth place at the tournament after falling to second-seeded UCLA in the national semifinal on Saturday.
The UC San Diego men's water polo team earned its first conference title since 2006 with an 8-7 win over UC Davis in the Western Water Polo Association Championship on Sunday afternoon at Canyonview Pool.
Junior midfielder Jessica Wi scored in the 70th minute to lift the seventh-ranked UC San Diego women's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over San Francisco State in a California Collegiate Athletic Association matchup on Friday evening at Triton Soccer Field.
The UC San Diego cross country teams defended their home course on Saturday, capturing a pair of team titles at the 19th Annual Triton Classic Invitational on the UCSD Cross Country Course.
The second-ranked UC San Diego women's soccer team scored four goals in the second half as the Tritons pounded Cal State East Bay 5-1 in California Collegiate Athletic Association play on Sunday afternoon at Triton Soccer Field.
The National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA) has once again ranked UC San Diego as the top Division II institution in the country in its annual Collegiate Power Rankings, it was announced on Tuesday. Ranked on the NCSA's list for the seventh year in a row, UCSD also earned a No. 6 overall ranking in the study.