Cal State Fullerton at San Diego
Friday, September 23 | 7 p.m.
San Diego, Calif. | Torero Stadium
TV/Live Stream: TheW.tv
Live Stats: GameTracker
Audio: NA
Series Record: San Diego leads 10-6-0
SAN DIEGO – Cal State Fullerton wraps up its non-conference schedule this week when the Titans head down the coast to San Diego to face the Toreros.
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QUICK HITS
• Cal State Fullerton dropped both games last weekend at Arizona State (2-0) and UNLV (1-0). The team has now lost three straight for the second time this season.
• The Titans are 0-4 on the road this season going into Friday night's match at San Diego, a place where they have only won twice in eight all-time meetings.
• Last Friday's match at Arizona State was the first regular season matchup between the teams in program history.
• Fullerton's loss at UNLV on Sunday afternoon kept the Titans winless in three meetings against the Rebels in Las Vegas all-time.
• Friday's match at San Diego will be live streamed on TheW.tv courtesy of the West Coast Conference. Access to the live feed is free and a link will be available on the schedule page at FullertonTitans.com.
• Head coach Demian Brown is in his 10th season at the helm of the Titans. Cal State Fullerton is 87-81-25 under Brown.
IN THE POLLS
The Titans and Toreros are both unranked in this week's NSCAA Top-25 and West Region polls.
OPPONENT AND HISTORY
San Diego
7 p.m. | Friday, Sept. 23 | Torero Stadium
• The Titans face the Toreros in a non-conference tilt for the third straight season. Last year, the Titans upended the Toreros, 6-3, at Titan Stadium. The Titans led 1-0 at the half but the Toreros took a tied it 54 seconds into the second half. After that, the floodgates opened as the two teams combined to score eight goals in the second half including three straight by the Titans in a five-minute span. Fullerton scored four straight after giving up the first goal of the second half and would get goals from six different players in the match, including Connie Caliz and Sarah Fajnor.
• The Toreros enter Friday night's match with a 4-4-1 overall record and split their two matches last week. They scored a 3-2 victory over Long Beach State on the road but lost 2-1 at Oregon State in overtime.
• San Diego is led by Jacqueline Altschuld, whose three goals and nine points are both team highs. Summer Mason is the only other player with multiple goals this season, netting two to go along with one assist. Goalkeeper Amber Michel has started every match for San Diego and holds a 1.46 goals against average. She has a .731 save percentage and has made 38 saves overall while recording three clean sheets so far this season.
• The Titans and Toreros have played 16 times overall, dating back to Fullerton's first year of NCAA Division I soccer in 1993. The Toreros hold a 10-6-0 advantage over Fullerton including a 6-2-0 edge in San Diego. The teams have alternated wins in their last three meetings dating back to 2011. The Titans lost four straight matches to San Diego prior to that from 2006-10. San Diego has outscored the Titans 41-24 in the series.
• This will be Fullerton's final non-conference match of the season. Big West play begins Friday, Sept. 30 when the Titans host UC Riverside at Titan Stadium.
MORGAN MAKES FIRST START OF SEASON
Junior goalkeeper Morgan Bertsch made her first start of the season and second appearance overall in Sunday's match at UNLV. Bertsch was solid in net, making four saves and playing more than 100 minutes of shutout soccer before giving up a goal on a penalty kick in the 102nd minute.
FRESH START
Freshman Atlanta Primus and redshirt junior Tatiana Rizzotti each registered their first starts of the season. Primus logged her first career start on Friday at ASU while Rizzotti logged her sixth career start Sunday at UNLV.
HOOVER RETURNS
Midfielder Kaycee Hoover returned to the Fullerton lineup this past weekend after missing the previous four matches with a sprained knee. She logged 63 minutes in Friday's match at Arizona State and 76 minutes in Sunday's game at UNLV. She registered a shot in each match.
TURN AWAY FROM THE SKID
The Titans have dropped three straight matches for the second time this season. Fullerton has not had a four-match losing streak since 2011, which is also the last time the Titans did not make the Big West Conference Tournament. The Titans did have a six-match winless streak to start the 2014 season. They played then No. 22 BYU to a draw in the season opener, lost three straight at home, tied at Oregon State and lost at Oregon to begin the season. Fullerton would go on to win 10 of the final 16 matches with two draws including 10-match unbeaten streak to claim the regular season Big West title and win the second of three straight conference tournament titles.
HOLDING THE LINE
The Titans defense has yet to allow more than two goals in a match this season and have allowed multiple goals just three times, the last coming in Friday's 2-0 loss at Arizona State. They've held opponents to a 1.11 goals per game average and the defense has made sure to get in the line of fire all season. The Titans have allowed 119 shots this season but have blocked 30 of them while allowing 41 shots on target, a .345 shot-on-goal percentage. After allowing four of 10 shots on target in the first half against UNLV, the Titans did not allow any more shots on goal out of the 15 attempted by the Rebels their penalty kick in the 102nd minute.
FULL (OVER)TIME
The Titans logged their first overtime match of the season Sunday, falling to UNLV 1-0 in double overtime. In 2015, the Titans played four matches that required extra time and went 1-2-2 including a 3-3 result in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against USC, a result the Titans dropped 4-3 in penalty kicks. In Demian Brown's tenure, the Titans are now 14-18-27 in matches that are not settled in regulation time.
SEARCHING FOR PAYDIRT
Sunday's 1-0 loss at UNLV marked the third straight shutout loss for the Titans, the second time the Titans have been shutout in three straight this season. They have been held scoreless for the last 308:06, the sixth longest in school history. Earlier this season, Fullerton was held scoreless from Aug. 19-Sept. 4, a 307:34 span which was the sixth longest scoreless streak in school history at the time.
ON THE SIX
Fullerton's six losses this season have all come by shutout. The last time the Titans suffered six shutouts in a season was in 2013. The team would finish with an 8-7-7 record but went on to win the Big West Conference Tournament to kick off the team's current streak of three straight conference tournament titles.