Azusa Pacific continues to be next to impossible to score on, notching two 1-0 victories to run their shutout streak to nine. Westmont also won two matches but the opposite way, scoring six total goals with Skyler McNamara accounting for five of those points. During a week where the top six save totals of the entire season were recorded, Hawaii Pacific's Skylar Jacobsen stood out with 18 saves on the week, including a PacWest best 11 against Vanguard.

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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Westmont's Skyler McNamara, F, Soph., 5-7, Valley Center, Calif.                        
Westmont's Skyler McNamara helped the high powered Warrior offense with a pair of goals, an assist and two wins. Westmont scored three goals twice with a 3-1 victory over Menlo and a 3-2 conquest of Fresno Pacific for their first two victories of the year, both of them conference wins (2-1). The sophomore from the San Diego area had a goal and a assist against the Oaks in just 45 minutes of play, and added the opening goal during a tight 3-2 victory over the Sunbirds. The sophomore, who did not score during her freshman season with the Warriors, now has four goals and nine points in 2025. 

DEFENDER OF THE WEEK: Hawaii Pacific's Skylar Jacobsen, GK, Fr., 5-6, Fort Collins, Colo.                
Hawaii Pacific's Skylar Jacobsen had a very busy pair of matches for the Sharks last week against Vanguard and Azusa Pacific. The freshman from Colorado had a 2025 PacWest season best of 11 saves during a 1-0 win over Vanguard, facing 19 Lions shots during the shutout. Against red-hot Azusa Pacific, Jacobsen gave up just one score and had seven saves during a 1-0 loss to the Cougars. In all, she faced 35 shots, gave up one score and had 18 saves. The rookie now has a 0.56 goals against average, has 66 saves and six shutouts. Her save total is more than double of anyone else in the conference and her half dozen shutuouts is second in the PacWest. 

TEAM OF THE WEEK: Azusa Pacific Cougars                                                                                                    
Azusa Pacific is the Team of the Week for the second week in a row in rolling to their eighth and ninth consecutive shutouts. The Cougars, who defeated Chaminade and Hawaii Pacific by 1-0 scores on the road, have now over 13 hours of match play without giving up a score, and have tied a school record with the nine straight blank sheets. Additionally, they have improved to 6-1-3 overall and 3-0 in PacWest play. Keeper Alexia Muniz calls the shots for the defense and added two more shutouts to her stat totals and had three saves in each match. The Cougars and Muniz had not given up a score since their opening match of the 2025 season, a 3-1 loss to defending national champ Cal Poly Pomona. 

PACWEST NEWS AND NOTES: Hawaii Hilo and Concordia tried to keep pace in a top heavy conference race by going 1-0-1 on the week. The Vulcans defeated Vanguard (2-1) and tied Biola (1-1), while Concordia topped Jessup (1-0) and deadlocked with Point Loma (0-0). In a defensive battle in Irvine, PLNU's Julia Pinnell had five saves against no scores and CUI's Riley Urquiza had four saves and the blank sheet...In that CUI-Jessup match, the Warriors' Celeste Fernandez had ten saves and gave up just the one goal...Westmont's Ellie Ludwig had nine saves in the 3-2 win over Fresno Pacific...In a high octane save week, Menlo's Lily Roberts and Giorgia Melcore had eight saves each against Dominican and Westmont...Hawaii Hilo's Lydia Keller had ten total saves and two goals against in a Vulcan win and tie...Offensively, Westmont's Amelia Villa had three assists towards the Warriors' six goals last week. Sierra Martin added a goal in each match of their wins over Menlo and Fresno Pacific...Dominican won its lone match of the week, 1-0 over Menlo...It's early, but it appears that the race for the four conference tournament berths in San Diego (Nov. 13-15) is going to be frantic. The unbalanced schedule makes it a bit hard to follow, but here is where we are in mid-October with the top half. Hawaii Hilo 4-1-1 (5-2-4 overall), Azusa Pacific 3-0 (6-1-3), Concordia 2-0-2 (7-1-3), Dominican 2-1-1 (5-1-5), Westmont 2-1, Hawaii Pacific 1-2-2. Additionally, Point Loma is 1-0-1 in conference play and 4-2-2 overall. 

LOOKING AHEAD: 11 matches dot the slate, with eight conference matches and three non-conference kick offs. On Wednesday, Jessup is at Fresno Pacific (non-conference), Vanguard is at Concordia, Point Loma at Biola and Westmont is at Azusa Pacific. on Thursday, Hawaii Pacific is at Hilo (non-conference), and Saturday's full slate includes Hilo at Chaminade (non-conference), Dominican at Jessup, Vanguard at Point Loma, Fresno Pacific at Menlo, Biola at Westmont and Azusa Pacific at Concordia.   To see the complete list, click here.