Sports STANFORD ROUNDUP
Homecoming weekend keeps Cardinal busy Tennis teams head into ITA Regionals; women’s soccer and men’s water polo will take on conference opponents at home by Rick Eymer he men’s and women’s tennis programs will be in action over the weekend at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championship. The Stanford women hosts for the seventh straight year while the Cardinal men venture over to St. Mary’s in Moraga. The tournament opens Friday. For the women, Kristie Ahn, Taylor Davidson, Caroline Doyle, Krista Hardebeck, Amelia Herring, Lindsey Kostas, Ellen Tsay and Carol Zhao will compete in singles and/or doubles. As a freshman last year, playing in her second collegiate tournament, Hardebeck won the ITA Northwest Regional Championships singles crown, outlasting fourth-seeded Annett Schutting of California 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4). Hardebeck completed an impressive tournament run, dropping only two sets over a five-day stretch. In the 2012 doubles final, the Cardinal’s top-seeded duo of Stacey Tan and Ellen Tsay defeated California’s team of Tayler Davis and Annie Goransson 8-4. Tan and Tsay repeated as doubles champions, breezing through five matches while surrendering four games or less in each contest. On the men’s side, Menlo School grad Jamin Ball, Yale Goldberg, Daniel Ho, John Morrissey, Nolan Paige, Maciek Romanowicz, Robert Stineman, Trey Strobel and Anthony Tsodikov are slated to compete for Stanford.
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Women’s volleyball Seventh-ranked Stanford (12-3, 5-1 Pac-12) travels to the Pacific Northwest this weekend to take on Pac-12 foes Washington State (15-4, 2-4 Pac-12) and Washington (14-1, 6-1 Pac-12). The Cardinal face the Cougars on Friday at 6 p.m. in Pullman before playing the sixth-ranked Huskies on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in Seattle. Stanford got back on track last week, sweeping Utah and Colorado in Maples Pavilion. Ten of the Cardinal’s 12 wins this season have been sweeps. Senior middle blocker Carly Wopat was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week after hitting .529 in the two matches (20-1-34). Junior libero Kyle Gilbert led the defense with 5.83 digs per set, including a match-high 19 against Utah. Stanford’s team blocks per set mark of 3.03 is the best in the nation. Wopat leads the conference and is 13th nationally with 1.40 blocks per set, while sophomore Inky Ajanaku is third in the Pac12 and 30th in the nation with 1.31 blocks per set. Wopat recently eclipsed the 500 block plateau,
while Ajanaku tallied the 200th of her career against Colorado on Oct. 12. Stanford setter Madi Bugg has controlled the offense this season, ranking second in the Pac-12 and fifth in the nation with 11.88 assists per set. Five Cardinal players are averaging at least 2.33 kills per set: Wopat (3.26), Rachel Williams (3.00), Brittany Howard (2.86), Jordan Burgess (2.45) and Ajanaku (2.33). Gilbert has led the defensive side of the ball for the Cardinal this season and ranks second on the Pac-12 charts with 4.70 digs per set. Field hockey No. 13 Stanford heads to North Carolina this weekend for a pair of top-25 matchups, taking on No. 14 Wake Forest and No. 8 Duke. The Cardinal opens Friday at 4 p.m. (PT) against Wake Forest (8-5) before heading to Duke (10-3) Sunday at 9 a.m. Women’s soccer No. 10 Stanford attempts to halt a rare three-match losing streak when it plays host to Utah on Friday at 7 p.m. to conclude a five-match conference-opening homestand. This also is Homecoming Weekend at Stanford, and the women’s soccer program will honor its alumnae at halftime; more than 60 are expected to attend. Stanford (9-3-1 overall, 2-3-0) is out to end a slump that has caused the Cardinal to drop eight spots in the NSCAA/Continental Tire rankings in two weeks. Men’s golf After winning its last tournament, in Wisconsin, Stanford will take to the course again beginning Friday at the United States Collegiate Championship in Alpharetta, Ga. Cross country The Stanford men’s and women’s teams are participating in the Pre-National meet on Saturday in Terre Haute, Ind., the site of the NCAA championships next month. Men’s soccer Stanford travels to California for a Pac-12 Conference match against the top-ranked Bears on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Stanford (6-3-2, 1-2-1 Pac-12) lost to UCLA in overtime and tied San Diego State, 3-3, last weekend. Men’s water polo Nationally No. 4-ranked Stanford hosts No. 1 UCLA on Saturday at 10 a.m. N