Nov. 7, 2001
TOURNEY TIME
* San Diego State (6-10-1, 2-3-1 MWC) travels to Las Vegas to participate in the third annual Mountain West Conference Tournament beginning Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Peter Johann Memorial Field on the campus of UNLV.
* By virtue of finishing fifth in the final league standings, the Aztecs will face the No. 4 seed Utah at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
* Other first-round action has No. 2 seed New Mexico playing No. 7 seed Air Force at 4:00 p.m., followed by No. 3 UNLV vs. No. 6 Wyoming at 7:00 p.m.
* As the regular-season champion, Brigham Young receives a bye in the first round. The Cougars will face the winner of the Utah-SDSU match at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8. The other tournament semifinal will be played at 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening.
* The championship match is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 10, at noon.
SERIES RECORDS
* Utah holds a 4-3 advantage over the Aztecs in the series between the two teams and is the only conference school that leads the soccer series with SDSU. Utah had defeated the Aztecs three straight times over the past two seasons (including at the 2000 MWC Tournament) before this year's meeting in San Diego.
* San Diego State was a 2-1 overtime winner when the teams met at the Sports Deck in mid-October. A Kim Castellanos goal was canceled out by a Utah goal late in the game to send the match into overtime. With just a few seconds remaining in the first extra period, senior Danielle Small converted a free kick opportunity from 25 yards out to win it for the Aztecs.
MOST RECENTLY
* SDSU ended a three-match losing streak with a come-from-behind 3-2 win at UNLV. * After finding itself behind 2-0 after 51 minutes, the Aztecs rallied as freshmen Annie Klotovich and Gina Salinas scored the first goals of their Aztecs careers.
* Klotovich netted SDSU's opening goal at the 57:18 mark, and Salinas followed at 75:17 to tie the contest at 2-2. Klotovich finished out the scoring by knocking in the game winner at 79:16.
CLEGG REACHES MILESTONE
* Chuck Clegg is his ninth season in charge of the SDSU women's soccer program with a record of 102-63-6 (.614). His 100th career win as coach of the women's squad came in SDSU's 2-0 win at UC Riverside on Sept. 18.
* He joins Clive Charles (Portland) and Anson Dorrance (North Carolina) as the only other NCAA Division I coaches to accumulate at least 100 wins as both a men's and women's collegiate head coach. Clegg compiled 194 victories as head coach of the Aztec men from 1982-99.
SCOUTING THE UTES
* Utah finished the regular season with an overall record of 10-6-0 and a conference mark of 3-3. The Utes tied UNLV for third in the final standings, but the Rebels were awarded the No. 3 seed for the tournament as a results of defeating the Utes during the regular season.
* Utah is led offensively by senior Amy Kofoed (10g, 6a) and Shauna Gurr-Bingham (8g, 4a). The team's average of 2.50 goals per game is the best in the conference this season.
* Goalkeeper Lynnsey Asay has recorded five shutouts this fall and her goals against average stands at 0.98.
ALL-CONFERENCE AZTECS
* San Diego State forwards Kim Castellanos and Kim Rogers have been named to the 2001 all-Mountain West Conference first team.
* Castellanos finished the regular season with 10 goals and a pair of assists while Rogers, who had her lone assist of the year in SDSU's 3-2 win at UNLV last Saturday, was recognized for her all-around play.
* Senior goalkeeper Linnea Qui?ones received second team all-MWC honors. She has averaged 5.4 saves a game this fall with a goals against average of 1.95.
GARL HONORED
* Junior defender Hannah Garl has been named SDSU's SBC Pacific Bell Student-Athlete of the Month for November.
* Garl, a junior from Tacoma, Wash., is a leader of the Aztec defensive line. She scored the first goal of her SDSU career earlier this season against Montana.
* She was a member of the 2000 Mountain West Conference all-academic and is a two-time "Big Red" award winner for her academic work at San Diego State.
GOAL LEADER
* Kim Castellanos is currently tied for the conference lead in goals with 10. Amy Kofoed of Utah and Anita Pedford of UN LV have also netted 10 times this season.
* Castellanos is third in the Mountain West Conference scoring race with 22 points (10g, 2a). She trails Kofoed (10g, 6a, 26 pts) and BYU's Aleisha Cramer (9g, 7a, 25 pts).
DELEON MISSING FOR TOURNEY OPENER
* Senior defender Fay deLeon will miss the opening game of the MWC Tournament while serving a one-game red card suspension.
* deLeon picked up two yellow cards in the Aztecs' win at UNLV last Saturday.
AZTEC NOTES
* San Diego State has never lost a first-round match in the five previous conference tournaments in which it has played (both WAC and MWC).
* The Aztecs lost to Utah, 2-1, in the second round of the 2000 conference tournament at UNLV.
* SDSU's six wins this season is a team low, tying with the 1992 squad that finished with a mark of 6-7-3.
* The win over UNLV was SDSU's fourth in four games against the Rebels. Wyoming is the only other MWC team that has never defeated the Aztecs, although the teams tied, 1-1, in Laramie this season.