STOCKTON, Calif. – Basketball season begins tonight with the women's team hosting future West Coast Conference member UC San Diego at 6 p.m. at the Alex G. Spanos Center. The men tip it off Wednesday with a 7 p.m. game against Life Pacific. Volleyball is at home Thursday and both the men's and women's soccer teams will host games on a busy days on campus Wednesday and Saturday.
Congratulations to the men's water polo team on winning the West Coast Conference Regular Season Championship for the
second year in a row.
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Home Event Summary:
Monday, Nov. 3 -Â Women's Basketball hosts UC San Diego, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 5 - Women's Soccer hosts Gonzaga, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 5 - Men's Basketball hosts Life Pacific, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 5 - Men's Soccer hosts Air Force, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 6 - Volleyball hosts Seattle, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Women's Basketball hosts Cal Baptist, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Women's Soccer hosts Washington State, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Men's Soccer hosts Oregon State, 7 p.m.
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Monday, Nov. 3 -Â Women's Basketball hosts UC San Diego, 6 p.m. - Facing off future WCC opponent UC San Diego, the 2025-26 Pacific women's basketball tips off its season. Under Head Coach
Bradley Davis, the Tigers are 7-1 opening the season at home under against unranked competition and have won the previous two home openers. A Tigers win would also push Davis ahead of Melissa Taketa for the most wins in program history. Tonight's matchup is the first ever between Pacific and UCSD.
Wednesday, Nov. 5 - Women's Soccer (4-7-6, 1-4-4 WCC) hosts Gonzaga (6-9-2, 4-3-2 WCC), 4:30 p.m. - The Tigers begin their final homestand of the season, kicking off against Gonzaga in the afternoon at Knoles Field. Despite a 1-0 loss, freshman Lis Van Herwijnen is coming off her best performance as a Tiger, making a career-high ten saves last Saturday.
Wednesday, Nov. 5 - Men's Basketball hosts Life Pacific, 7 p.m. - Pacific's season opener against Life Pacific will be a rematch from last year where the Tigers broke the school record for the largest margin of victory with a 53-point win. The 94-41 result happened on a neutral court in Hawaii at the Rainbow Classic. The Tigers are looking to win their season and home opener for the second year in a row after topping Jessup 92-65 last season in Dave Smart's inaugural game. Smart enters his second season at the helm.Â
Wednesday, Nov. 5 - Men's Soccer (3-12) hosts Air Force (1-12-3), 7:30 p.m. - The Tigers will compete in their final non-conference contest of the season, hosting Air Force at Knoles Field. It's the first time in program history that the Tigers and the Falcons will clash on the pitch.
Thursday, Nov. 6 - Volleyball (7-15, 1-10 WCC) hosts Seattle (6-15, 0-10 WCC), 6 p.m. - Pacific enters the contest with a 3-0 all-time record against WCC newcomer Seattle, with all three wins coming under Head Coach Greg Gibbons. Pacific has hosted SU once before, pulling off a 3-0 sweep in 2011. Freshman Mazi Smith enters the contest needing five kills to reach her career 100th.
Friday, Nov. 7 - No. 8 Men's Water Polo (15-5, 5-1 WCC) at No. 2 UCLA (20-1, 4-1 MPSF), 5 p.m. - Pacific enters play on an eight-game winning-streak, including yesterday's regular season title win. The Tigers locked up the No. 1 seed for the WCC Tournament and do not have any more conference matches left on its schedule. Pacific will look to knock off UCLA for the first time since 2013 and will look to beat the Bruins on the road for the first time this century.
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Volleyball (7-15, 1-10 WCC) at Santa Clara (12-9, 7-3 WCC), 1 p.m. - The last time these two teams met, graduate Olivia Keller put up a 13 kill-12 dig double-double, both marks of which led the Tigers. Similarly, sophomore Alessia Couchond set her season-high of conference play 31 assists during the match. Pacific still holds a 40-17 all-time advantage in the series history.
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Women's Basketball hosts Cal Baptist, 1 p.m. - For the first time since 2010, the Tigers face a team from the Western Athletic Conference in the Cal Baptist Lancers. Like Monday's matchup, the Tigers and Lancers have never met on the court prior to the meeting. Pacific will feature six newcomers to the roster, three transfers and three freshman. Transfer sophomore Winner Bertholomew joins Pacific by way of Rider University, and seniors
Mali Ennis and
Hannah Burg join the program after stints at Saint Mary's and Augustana respectively. The three freshman of
Sophia Mindermann,
Liv Yergensen and
LaMiracle Lebon all hail from the NorCal area.Â
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Women's Soccer (4-7-6, 1-4-4 WCC) hosts Washington State (5-7-5, 3-4-2 WCC), 1 p.m. - Pacific plays its final contest of West Coast Conference action, facing Washington State at Knoles Field. Saturday's match will mark the first time the Tigers and Cougars will meet at home.
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Men's Soccer (3-12, 1-6 WCC) hosts Oregon State (9-3-2, 5-0-2 WCC), 7 p.m. - Pacific hosts Senior Day against Oregon State at Knoles Field. The Tigers seek their first-ever program history over the Beavers, having only played three times previously in Corvallis, Oregon. Saturday's match-up will be the first Pacific welcomes Oregon State to Stockton, California.
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Men's Basketball at Nevada, 7 p.m. - Pacific is 53-50 all-time against Nevada. The new-look Tigers reloaded with 15 newcomers this year, which included 10 transfers and five freshmen. They have Division I transfers from Binghamton, Dayton, Florida, Lamar, Long Beach State, Maine, UC San Diego and Washington. Most notably, junior Kajus Kublickas was part of a national championship team last season with the Gators. More than half of Pacific's roster is international. The Tigers are represented with six from Canada, two from Lithuania and one from each the Dominican Republic and Israel. At the same time, Pacific has been able to recruit locally with five California natives on the team.
Sunday, Nov. 9 - No. 8 Men's Water Polo (15-5, 5-1 WCC) at No. 3 Stanford (12-6, 1-4 MPSF), 1 p.m. - It will be the final regular season match of the Tigers, who already locked up the WCC Regular Season Championship and the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament. Pacific is looking for its first win against Stanford since an 11-10 road victory in 2016. The Tigers are led by freshman Apostolos Georgaras who has netted a team-high 69 goals on the season.
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