Local roundup: Pacific field hockey falls short

The Pacific field hockey team lost 1-0 to Cal on Sunday in their first home game since Sept. 27.

Pacific posted nine shots, and yielded just five, but the Golden Bears' Janaye Sakkas scored past the Tigers' Kelsey Gulledge in the first half. For Pacific (7-6, 1-1 America East Conference), Nicole Laskosky came close to creating a goal when she stole the ball from a defender to create a two-on-one break. Laskosky attempted to pass to Rylee Comeau streaking toward the goal, only to have Cal's last defender knock the ball away. Similarly, a through ball from the Tigers on a three-on-one break just eluded the stick of Ali Campos, skipping out of bounds instead.

Pacific hosts Stanford at 3 p.m. Friday and UC Davis at 2 p.m. Sunday, both conference games.

MEN'S SOCCER

Saint Mary's 1, Pacific 0

At Saint Mary's, the Tigers fell to the Gaels in both teams' West Coast Conference opener in Moraga. For Saint Mary's (4-7-1, 1-0-0 WCC), Cory Schmidt scored in the 70th minute for the lone goal of the match. For Pacific (1-10-0, 0-1), goalkeeper Josh Adachi made two saves.

MEN'S WATER POLO

Pacific takes fifth place

At Pepperdine, the No. 5 Tigers handled No. 6 UC Santa Barbara 12-5 in the fifth-place game of the 2015 Kap7 SoCal Classic in Malibu. For Pacific (14-2), Ben Stevenson posted a hat trick, with three goals, while Kristian Laczkovics, Alex Obert and Devon Thumwood had two goals each. Kale Ai, Aleksandar Petrovic and Ikko Saito had one goal each. Goalie Brady Moore had 11 saves. To advance to the fifth-place game, Pacific beat No. 7 UC Irvine 14-9. Laczkovics paced the Tigers with four goals, Petrovic and Stevenson scored three goals each, Obert had two goals and Saito and Casey Fleming both had one.

MEN'S TENNIS

Pacific doubles team victorious

At Santa Barbara, the Tigers doubles duo of Lance Ngo and Kumara Pardha Adavelly won a consolation matchup against UC Santa Barbara's Chase Masciorini and Riley Scott, 8-1 at the UCSB Classic. In consolation singles, UC Davis' Tommy Lam beat Ngo 6-1, 6-2 and Loyola Marymount's Luke Bohuslav beat Adavelly 7-6, 3-6, 6-3.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

Portland 4, Pacific 0

At Pacific, the Tigers (2-9-1, 1-3 WCC) posted 11 shots but couldn't score in a conference loss at Knoles Field. Pacific goalie Regan Heslop made one save.

WOMEN'S TENNIS

Pacific doubles team wins final

At Moraga, the Tigers' Viktoriya Dzyuba and Cristina Saenz de Buruaga Ruiz won the Saint Mary's Fall Invitational Doubles B Final, and the Pacific team went undefeated overall Sunday. Dzyuba and Saenz de Buruaga Ruiz beat Sacramento State's Ana Loaiza and Jennifer Ong 8-3. In other doubles play, Pacific's Yuki Asami and Anneroos Nederstigt beat Portland's Sarah Hellstern and Marina Reimers 8-2. In singles, Asami beat Hellstern 6-2, 6-3 and Nederstigt beat Sacramento State's Emily McColl 8-3.