SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Back home still looking for its first Big West Conference triumph of the season, the Sacramento State men's soccer team hosts a pair of league rivals to kick-off the second half of the conference schedule. The Hornets welcome Cal Poly on Wednesday (Oct. 15), before UC Irvine pays a visit on Saturday (Oct. 18) to close the week.

MATCH #14
WHAT: Cal Poly (5-4-4, 2-1-1 Big West) at Sacramento State (1-9-3, 0-3-1 Big West)
WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025
WHERE: Sacramento, Calif.
TIME: 3 PM PT
STADIUM: Hornet Soccer Field
WATCH: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: HornetSports.com
TICKETS: HornetSports.com

MATCH #15
WHAT: UC Irvine (5-3-5, 0-0-4 Big West) at Sacramento State (1-9-3, 0-3-1 Big West)
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025
WHERE: Sacramento, Calif.
TIME: 3 PM PT
STADIUM: Hornet Soccer Field
WATCH: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: HornetSports.com
TICKETS: HornetSports.com

WEEKLY NOTES: Sacramento State | Cal Poly | UC Irvine | Big West Conference

SCOUTING CAL POLY
• The Mustangs enter the week with a 5-4-4 overall record and a 2-1-1 mark in Big West play
• Cal Poly split its last two matches, falling to Cal State Fullerton (2-0) before shutting out UC San Diego (4-0)
• The loss to the Titans snapped a seven-match unbeaten run (3-0-4) for the Mustangs
• Cal Poly is 2-3-2 in matches away from home this season and are unbeaten in its last three (1-0-2) road contests dating back to a 2-1 loss at Denver on Sept. 8
• Sophomore Quinn Mahoney leads the Mustangs with 10 points thanks to four goals and a pair of assists
• The four goals are tied with teammate Tanner Casey for the team lead
• Michael Vick leads the team with five assists
• Senior goalkeeper Nicky McCune has played all but 12 minutes in net this year, posting a 0.93 goals against average and 34 saves (.739 save percentage) in 13 starts to go with five shutouts

SERIES NOTABLES
• Cal Poly leads the all-time series with Sacramento State, 19-12-5
• The Mustangs are unbeaten in the last two meetings with the Hornets, posting a 3-1 win last season in San Luis Obispo after ending in a scoreless draw in 2023 in Sacramento
• Sacramento State's last win in the series came on the road in 2022, shutting out Cal Poly, 4-0
• The series between the two schools is tied 5-5-5 in matches played in Sacramento
• Cal Poly is 1-0-2 in the last three matches played in Sacramento, with the contests ending in draws in each of the last two
• The Hornets' last win at home came back in 2017 -- a match that ended in a 5-1 score
• Four of the last six head-to-head meetings have ended in shutouts for one school
• The two programs were rivals in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in 1998 and 1999 before the Hornets joined the Big West in 2012
• UC Irvine leads the series, 9-6-3, as Big West rivals

SCOUTING UC IRVINE
• The Anteaters enter the week with a 5-3-5 overall record, with four of those five draws coming in Big West play were they are 0-0-4 on the year
• UC Irvine hosts CSUN on Wednesday before traveling to Northern California
• The Anteaters have opened with four straight draws against UC San Diego, Cal Poly, Cal State Bakersfield, and Cal State Fullerton to start Big West play
• That run followed three straight defeats dating back to a 1-0 win over Yale on Sept. 12 -- the last in a run that saw UCI open 2025 with a 5-0-1 record
• Entering the week, the Anteaters are winless on the road this season, 0-3-2, and are 0-4-4 in their last eight on the road dating back to a 1-0 win at CSUN on Oct. 19 of last year
• Senior forward Misael Gonzalez Lopez leads the team with five goals and 10 points, while juniors Isaac Powell and Hunny Yoo lead the team with three assists 
• Sophomore goalkeeper Joe O'Shaughnessy has played all but 45 minutes between the pipes this year, posting a 0.96 goals against average and 23 saves (.657 save percentage) to go with four shutouts

SERIES NOTABLES
• UC Irvine leads the all-time series with Sacramento State, 14-8-4
• The Anteaters have won the last four straight in the series by a combined 8-1 score with three shutouts
• The Hornets' last win in the series came in 2021, posting a 3-2 victory at home
• The series in Sacramento is close with UCI holding a narrow, 4-3-3, advantage
• Sacramento State is 2-1-2 against UC Irvine in the last five meetings in Northern California
• One of the two schools has finished with multiple goals in 15 of the last 16 meetings, save for a 1-0 decision in favor of the Anteaters in 2022

DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
• Clutch goals by Eli Reyneveld and Nick Strangio -- the latter in the final four minutes of regulation -- helped bring the Hornets back from down two goals at CSUN last week and forge a 2-2 draw for the team's first point in league play
• The two-goal comeback to earn a result was the program's best since they came back from a 2-0 deficit with goals in the 75th and 88th minutes against UC Irvine at home to earn a draw on Oct. 12, 2019

ACCOUNT OPENED
• Reyneveld's goal in the 66th minute against the Matadors was the first of his Hornet career, making him the eighth different Sacramento State player to find the back of the net this year
• For Hiroshi Yang, who assisted on the score, it was his first career assist to go with a pair of goals, while Angad Singh and Jonathan Dadzie posted their second career helpers on Strangio's game-tying score

IN THE NICK OF TIME
• Strangio's game-tying goal at CSUN made him the first Hornet to score multiple goals this year and the latest goal scored by a Sacramento State in 2025
• In fact, Strangio's score with 3:29 remaining was the latest goal since Cody Sundquist found the back of the net with 1:21 remaining against Saint Mary's on Sept. 14, 2023

PITCHING A SHUTOUT
• Senior goalkeeper Andres Rosales came up huge in the second half against CSUN to help the Hornets to their comeback, finishing with six saves in the final 45 minutes en route to the 2-2 draw on the road
• His six saves came up just one stop shy of his career high of seven set and tied in back-to-back matches against Pacific (Sept. 11) and San Francisco (Sept. 14)
• Coupled with his five saves against UC Riverside, Rosales now has 32 stops against 99 shots faced, leading the team with a .711 save percentage in his six appearances

ON THE SPOT
• With Hiroshi Yang's penalty against Saint Mary's on Sept. 19, the Hornets have now converted their last 13 consecutive tries from the spot dating back to a miss against San Francisco on the road on Sept. 23, 2018
• Prior to that, Sacramento State made eight straight penalties, extending their streak to 21 of its last 22 dating back to 2015
• Sacramento State is 3-for-3 in penalties this season, adding makes against No. 13 Stanford and Pacific, matching its total from last season and posting the most makes from the spot since the Hornets were 4-for-4 in 2012

HORNETS IN THE BIG WEST
• Junior Donovan Sessoms is tied for 10th in the league with 22 shot attempts and 1.83 shot attempts per match
• Sessoms' 11 shots on goal are tied for third in the league
• Sessoms' two assists have him tied for 10th in the Big West
• Lucas Bost and his team-high 36 saves are tied for fourth in the league, while Rosales' 32 stops are ninth entering this week's contests
• Bost ranks seventh in the conference with a .692 save percentage and third with 4.00 saves per match
• As a team, Sacramento State's 69 saves lead the Big West while the team's 5.31 saves per game also lead the league