USAFA, Colo. – The second seeded and ninth ranked Spartans will face No. 15 and fifth seeded Cal Baptist today at 12 p.m. in the WCC Tournament Semifinals on ESPN+ in Cadet Natatorium at USAFA, Colo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Spartans are looking for their first WCC Championship since 2023. This also marks the third year in a row the Spartans have made it to the WCC Championship game. Last season, Cal Baptist defeated SJSU in the WCC Championship game.<\/p>\n
The Spartans defeated Air Force 14-10 and No. 10 Pepperdine 13-12 in overtime to make it to the WCC Championship.<\/p>\n
The Spartans finished the regular season with a record of 11-7 and ranked No. 9 nationally. The Spartans were named WCC Co-Regular Season Champions after finishing with a conference record of 5-1. Goalie\u00a0Brendon Gyapjas<\/a>\u00a0was named WCC Player of the Year and All-WCC First Team, making him the first Spartan ever to be named WCC Player of the Year.\u00a0Sam Keightley<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Samu Biros<\/a>\u00a0were named to the All-WCC Second Team, and Keightley was also named to the All-WCC Freshman Team.\u00a0Mateja Bosi\u0107<\/a>\u00a0received an All-WCC Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n #AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USAFA, Colo. – The second seeded and ninth ranked Spartans will face No. 15 and fifth seeded Cal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,91204,91206,91205,91207,91208,91209,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-149083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-san-jose-state","11":"tag-san-jose-state-athletics","12":"tag-san-jose-state-spartans","13":"tag-sjsu","14":"tag-sjsu-spartans","15":"tag-spartans","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}