{"id":469765,"date":"2026-09-20T06:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:08:14","slug":"no-18-cal-falls-in-defensive-battle-with-no-1-northwestern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469765\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 18 Cal Falls In Defensive Battle With No. 1 Northwestern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 18 California field hockey team (5-1) fell to No. 1 Northwestern (8-0), 2-0, following a defensive battle Saturday afternoon at the Aggie Field Hockey Facility. The Golden Bears held the two-time defending national champions scoreless through the first three quarters before the Wildcats scored twice in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears came out strong, outshooting Northwestern 5-3 in the opening quarter while earning two penalty corners. Cal&#8217;s defensive unit continued to set the tone through the second and third quarters, keeping Northwestern off the scoreboard through 45 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some bright spots today,&#8221; said Donna Fong Co-Director of Field Hockey Steve Danielson. &#8220;When we played connected and went forward we had quality attacking moments. We held our defensive structure well and we are pleased with that effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Northwestern broke through with 11:43 remaining in the fourth quarter when Kerry McCormick converted a penalty corner. Ilse Tromp added a second goal with 6:31 remaining, also off a penalty corner.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/field-hockey\/roster\/carine-van-wiechen\/27841\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27841\" target=\"_blank\">Carine Van Wiechen<\/a> anchored the Bears&#8217; defensive effort, recording nine saves and making several key stops throughout the contest. Cal&#8217;s defense also successfully defended 12 of the Wildcats&#8217; 14 penalty corners, keeping the nation&#8217;s top-ranked team off the board for the majority of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to grow and improve moving into conference play next week,&#8221; said Danielson.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears now turn their attention to ACC play next weekend, hosting No. 16 Louisville and No. 11 North Carolina at Underhill Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 18 California field hockey team (5-1) fell to No. 1 Northwestern (8-0), 2-0, following a defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-469765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469765","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=469765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}