“We take pride in playing a tough schedule,” Ramsey said. “There are teams ranked ahead of us 
right now that asked me to schedule them for at least two easy games at the Shootout. Their coach did not want more than two tough opponents. We could be undefeated right now since I control the schedule. I’d rather do it this way and the team takes pride in not slacking off.”
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Last Friday the #5 UCSB women’s club lacrosse team took a trip down to UCLA to square off with the #6 Bruins. For most of the game, the Gauchos trailed UCLA, and with 20 minutes left to play, UCSB was down 8-5 and it wasn’t looking good.
“[The feeling that we had was] dismay,” Head Coach Paul Ramsey said. “We were thoroughly out-played by UCLA for the first 40 minutes of the game.”
The Gauchos, however, were not dead yet. UCSB began to show signs of life when sophomore attacker Ashley Antoon-Algieri scored with about 18 minutes left to bring the score to 8-6. About eight minutes later, senior midfielder Katie Moran scored to make it 8-7. Then, with almost nine minutes left and new life in sight, freshman midfielder Maegan Cruse fired a shot at the UCLA goal and tied the score 8-8.
“We knew we had the win after scoring the tying goal and finally evening out the score,” Moran said.
Almost three minutes later, that prediction would turn out to be true. With six minutes left in the game, Antoon-Algieri struck again for her second goal of the day to put the Gauchos ahead by one goal at 9-8.
“It’s a privilege to be the solidifying factor behind a team that plays hard until the last minute,” Antoon-Algieri said. “That night it was the whole team that fought for ground balls, kept UCLA from scoring, won the draws and scored three consecutive goals in order for us to tie; I just happened to be the one that scored [the last one].”
Ramsey was ecstatic with the comeback.
On the past two Sundays, Cal played two other 2008 semifinalists – then-No. 3 Duke, in a 19-7 loss, on Feb. 15 and then-No. 3 Syracuse, in an 18-2 setback, on Feb. 22. The Bears will take on four-time defending national champion Northwestern on April 5 in Evanston, Ill. 
The University of Redlands women’s lacrosse team opened the 2009 season with a non-conference, home contest against Whittier College and came away with a resounding 18-11 victory. 
The Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) will hold its national championship tournament May 12-16 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, the state-of-the-art stadium and field complex located just outside of Denver.
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