Golden Nuggets: Successful Weekend for Cal Sports

by Berkelium97 on Sep 7, 2009 5:00 PM PDT in Golden Nuggets

While you were enjoying your turtle soup with Tedford, Best, and company, several other Cal sports teams were in action too. Many of them were triumphant, and some posted victories as impressive (if not more so) as football's win.

For in-depth coverage of women's volleyball, I'll refer you to danzig's recent fanpost which has video of the entire match against Hawaii.

If you want more coverage of men's soccer, check out this fanpost written by BerkeleySportsBlog which previews the entire Pac-10.

After the jump we have coverage of women's volleyball, men and women's soccer, field hockey, water polo, and cross country. We also have a story on a basketball recruit who was more than pleased with his visit to Berkeley over the weekend.

Cal basketball's power forward recruiting prospect James Johnson had a great time during his visit to Cal and said Cal is now "at the top of my list...very high." He still has visits to Virginia and Oklahoma or Arizona and will make his decision in about two weeks.
After #19 St Louis upset #10 Cal women's volleyball in a 3-0 sweep, the Bears bounced back with a 5-set win over #4 Hawaii to bring a triumphant end to the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic .
#8/7 Cal men's soccer opened the season with a 2-0 win against Georgetown on Friday. On Saturday last year's NCAA College Cup champion #1/8 Maryland took a 2-1 win over Cal in OT.
After taking a 1-0 lead into halftime #14 Cal women's soccer exploded for three goals in under six minutes to take a 4-0 lead and held on to a 4-2 win over #25 Texas.
Cal field hockey defeated Kent State 2-0 on Saturday morning, but suffered their first loss of the season in a match against Northeastern Sunday afternoon.
#4 Men's water polo swept the Navy open. On Saturday they defeated Iona 26-1 and beat #12 Navy twice, 16-8 and 13-4. On Sunday, they improved to 23-0 in six years of competing in the Navy Open by crushing #18 Bucknell 20-5.
Cal cross country successfully opened the season at the 17th annual San Francisco Invitational at Golden Gate Park. Both teams had great overall finishes as men took first and women took second.

Reminders: You can sign up for CGB's pick 'em league anytime. Also, don't forget about Cal band's auction. It's worthwhile to look around (and do some bidding) because they have some unique items. Your money will be well spent, as all profits go to the band.

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I am quite pleased that Cal women’s soccer beat Texas. All those Texas players and families were at the Claremont over the weekend. Even though the Maryland fans were wearing red, the Texas colors were making my stomach churn more. I had nightmares of Mack Brown whining and pleading.

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by CALumbus Bear on Sep 7, 2009 5:10 PM PDT reply actions

Not sure if anyone is watching

But Florida State-Miami is the best game of the weekend. Harris is playing like a stud.

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by Avinash Kunnath on Sep 7, 2009 8:23 PM PDT reply actions

Except for those picks of course

But that last drive was pretty epic.

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by Avinash Kunnath on Sep 7, 2009 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions

Agreed, this has been very entertaining.

by sec119 on Sep 7, 2009 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions

What a bomb, if it stands.

by sec119 on Sep 7, 2009 8:38 PM PDT reply actions

I’m so glad we didn’t play this version of Harris last year.

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by Avinash Kunnath on Sep 7, 2009 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions

The athleticism and talent kept them close last year. Now add better offensive discipline, and they’ve developed into crazy explosive. If only the defense could keep up …

by sec119 on Sep 7, 2009 8:45 PM PDT up reply actions

They have some great, tall, physical receivers. I wonder if they had a poor game last year because they (and Harris) were inexperienced, or because our secondary was that good. I hope the later!

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by norcalnick on Sep 7, 2009 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions

After seeing how well they played against us in the Emerald Bowl, I was convinced they’d be a really good team this year. They’re certainly off to a fine start.

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by Berkelium97 on Sep 7, 2009 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Man

FSU has some miserable pass defense. Their run d will be pretty stout though.

I cannot believe FSU did not win that game. Ball on the 4, 50 seconds left, 1 timeout. Then a second set of down from the 2! Bobby Bowden has more painful losses to MIami than is right or fair.

by Nashville on Sep 7, 2009 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow what an ending – a great play by the Miami CB on the fade route – and some pretty bad clock management by FSU on the play before the pass interference.

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by norcalnick on Sep 7, 2009 8:54 PM PDT reply actions

Wow. If I’m a Miami fan at the game, I leave NOW.

by sec119 on Sep 7, 2009 8:54 PM PDT reply actions

What an exciting game… definitely was rooting for the ’Canes. Good final call too.

by Mister Pie on Sep 7, 2009 8:54 PM PDT reply actions

great game

by omnizzle on Sep 7, 2009 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Damn some Miami troll went nuts on Tomahawk Nation's open thread

People, if anyone like this shows up on our gamethreads in the future, email us and we’ll ban his ass the first moment we can: http://www.tomahawknation.com/2009/9/7/1020348/4th-q-overflow#20877739

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by Avinash Kunnath on Sep 7, 2009 8:59 PM PDT reply actions

I’m not sure who the special teams coaches are for both those teams, but they ought to get a stern talking to about their terrible kickoff coverages. And man, that Miami kickoff man makes Tavecchio look like an all-star.

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by Berkelium97 on Sep 7, 2009 8:59 PM PDT reply actions

Were half of them designed to be squib kicks?

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by Avinash Kunnath on Sep 7, 2009 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions

Bosher (Miami's kicker/punter) averaged a miserable 48 yards per kickoff

My favorite was the last kick of the game: the one that went straight up and landed at the 30 yard line…and was returned to the 50.

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by Berkelium97 on Sep 7, 2009 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Notre Dame legends team playing Japan national team on CBS right now.

Lou Holtz is back on the sidelines for the Fighting Irish. It’s called the “Notre Dame Japan Bowl.”
Can’t exactly say this is a fair fight though. Some ND players are apparently as old as 52.

This is another reason the Coca-Cola Bowl should return! Gives me an excuse to experience a thirteen hour plane flight.

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by Swamphunter on Sep 7, 2009 9:58 PM PDT reply actions

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