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Broncos Beat the Bears in Season Opener

Jan. 30, 2010

Santa Clara traveled to Cal Berkeley on a rainy Friday night for their first game of the season.  The Broncos started the game slow with poor shooting and an unfocused defense.  An impressive Bears goalie, Devon Combe, saved 7 of the first 8 Bronco shots on cage thereby allowing the Bears enough time to take a 3-1 lead early in the game.  With the Bears still leading 4-2, junior Gracie Binder scored on an assist by sophomore Maria Pestana.  After Binder's goal the Broncos would soon settle down, scoring the next three goals going into halftime thereby leading 5-4 at the break.

With three straight goals scored prior to half, the Broncos added the first six goals of the second half to make it a 9-0 unanswered scoring run that went late into the game.  Freshman Mayan Zeitlin scored her first goal of the season and the final goal of the night for the Broncos for a 14-4 lead.  Cal would answer the Broncos scoring with three goals of their own to finish out the game.  The final score of the game was 14-7.  Binder led the Bronco's in scoring with 5g-1a.

The Broncos will come back to UC Berkeley on Sunday for five 25 minute scrimmages versus Chico State, UC Davis and BayLax's post-collegiate club teams.  Santa Clara's next official game will be their home opener versus division opponent Sonoma State next Saturday.

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