{"id":453191,"date":"2026-09-04T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:47:45","slug":"sacramento-states-giles-cal-state-bakersfields-hart-and-uc-santa-barbaras-ferrieri-claim-first-weekly-honors-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453191\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento State’s Giles, Cal State Bakersfield’s Hart and UC Santa Barbara’s Ferrieri Claim First Weekly Honors of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tZac Giles, Sacramento State | Senior \u2022 Forward \u2022 Lincoln, Calif.
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The senior forward compiled one goal and one assist in the Hornets’ 3-1 win over local rival UC Davis on Thursday.\u00a0It was Sacramento State’s first season-opening win since 2019, only the second victory in the last 12 tries against the Aggies, and the first triumph at home over UC Davis\u00a0since 2015.<\/p>\n


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Also Nominated:\u00a0Oshea Foster (Cal State Bakersfield), Jose Luis Martin Montealegre (Utah Valley), Kaden Standish (UC Santa Barbara).\u00a0
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\n\t\t\tDefensive Player of the Week\u00a0

\n\t\t\tZenden Hart, Cal State Bakersfield | Fifth Year \u2022 Goalkeeper \u2022 Central Coast, Australia
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\"8014\"Cal State Bakersfield goalkeeper Zenden Hart\u00a0posted a\u00a0clean sheet\u00a0to secure The Big West Defensive Player of the Week honor. This is the second weekly distinction of Hart’s career after earning the award on Oct. 6, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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\n\tCal State Bakersfield is 1-0 to start the year.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Also Nominated:\u00a0Toke Amtrup (Utah Valley), Ty Branigan (UC Santa Barbara), Nick Strangio (Sacramento State).\u00a0
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\n\t\t\tSimone Ferrieri, UC Santa Barbara | Senior \u2022 Defender \u2022 Frosinone, Italy
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Also Nominated:\u00a0Henry Hedden (Sacramento State).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links All-Time Big West Men’s Soccer Weekly Winners >>> Offensive Player of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-453191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}