Point Loma picked up two key road wins at Jessup and Dominican to earn Team of the Week. Biola’s Kyle Dunn continued his scoring rampage with FOUR goals in one match and Vanguard’s Caleb Johnson had eight saves during a huge Lions win over Concordia.

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TEAM OF THE WEEK: Point Loma Sea Lions                                                                                                
Point Loma is the Team of the Week after hitting the road for a 3-2 win over Jessup and a 2-0 conquest of Dominican. The Sea Lions moved to the top of the PacWest standings with the wins, improving to 4-1 in league play (12 points) and to 7-3-3 overall. Jack Merrill scored the game-winner on Thursday at Jessup, and he scored and assisted in the 2-0 win over Dominican on Saturday. Point Loma has now won three matches in a row and four of their last five.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Biola’s Kyle Denn, MF, Jr., 5-9, Medford, Oregon                                                 
Biola’s Kyle Denn can’t stop scoring in winning his third straight PacWest Player of the Week honor. This time, he scored four times during an 8-2 win over Jessup, which ties for second on the PacWest single match scoring list, and the four goals is the most by a PacWest player since 2023. He has now scored in five straight matches and in three of those matches he has scored multiple goals. In addition to the scoring barrage against the Warriors, he also tallied a goal against Dominican. The IU-Indianapolis transfer now has a PacWest leading 12 goals and 25 points.
 
DEFENDER OF THE WEEK: Vanguard’s Caleb Johnson, GK, Fr., 6-2, Kingsburg, Calif.                         
Vanguard’s Caleb Johnson is the Defender of the Week after a standout performance against Concordia during a 3-1 Lions win. The freshman had eight saves, the second highest total in the PacWest this season. It was also a career high, where he doubled his previous best of four saves. Johnson faced 18 Golden Eagle shots in the match, also a season high. He has played all 90 minutes in the goal in nine of Vanguard’s 11 matches this season.

PACWEST NEWS AND NOTES: With three weeks left in the regular season the road to San Rafael for the PacWest Conference Tournament is still wide open in the fight for four spots. 1) Point Loma 4-1 (12 points), T2) Biola 3-1-1 (10 points), T2) Vanguard 3-1-1 (10 points), T4) Westmont 2-1-1 (7 points), T4) Hawaii Pacific 2-1-1 (7 points), 6) Concordia 2-2 (6 points), 7) Hawaii Hilo 1-2-2 (5 points), 8) Dominican 1-1-1 (4 points), 9) Chaminade 0-4-1 (1 point), 10) Jessup 0-3 (0 points)…Westmont won their lone conference match of the week with a 2-0 win over Hawaii Pacific. The Warriors also went on the road to take on UCLA, falling 5-1…Dominican’s Sebastian Jaral had a big win in the Penguin’s upset of Biola, tallying two goals and an assist in the 5-1 victory…Chaminade’s Jonah Valmonte had four saves during a scoreless tie with Hawaii Hilo, providing CUH’s first standings point of the year.

WEST REGION RPI: No PacWest team cracked the top 10 in the first NCAA Super Region 4 rankings, announced today by the NCAA national office. Point Loma is top conference team in the No. 14 slot.  To see the list, click here.

LOOKING AHEAD: There are a number of big matches on the slate this week as the countdown to the PacWest tournament is now at three weeks. On Monday, Westmont is at Chaminade and Wednesday sees Concordia travel to Dominican and Jessup host Vanguard. On Thursday, Hilo hosts Westmont. On Saturday the Vulcans are at Hawaii Pacific and Point Loma travels to Biola. To see the complete list of matches for the season, click here.