Women Debut at No. 6 in NCAA West

It's now or never for Jessica Murphy and her teammates, just two years removed from reaching the NCAA Title Game

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Bolstered by a career weekend by senior All-American Jessica Murphy, who earned CCAA Player of the Week honors after her 6-goal, 1-assist effort that including 5 scores in Sunday's win against San Francisco State on "Senior Day," the Cal State Dominguez Hills women's soccer team made its debut in this week's NCAA West Region poll, checking in at No. 6.

The top six teams from each region qualify for the NCAA postseason, with the two sub-regional sites ite to be announced on Sunday, November 6.

Last year's NCAA runner-up UC San Diego tops the west region poll, with cross-town rival Cal State L.A. at No. 2, and GNAC power Seattle Pacific, PacWest's BYU-Hawai'i and CCAA's CS Stanislaus occupying positions Nos. 3 through 5.

Following the Toros is Cal Poly Pomona at No. 6, CS San Bernardino at No. 8, San Francisco State at No. 9 and Montana State-Billings at No. 10, with each of the schools looking to move into the top six over the final two weekends of play.

CSUDH is led by senior Jessica Murphy, who sits just 4 goals and 6 points away from taking over the Toros all-time career marks in those categories, and whose 13 goals and 28 points top the CCAA after a league- and school-tying 5-goal performance against the Gators that earned her Wilson/CCAA Player of the Week honors, the third in her stellar career.

Junior Niki Poole and freshman Sami Feinstein chip in with two scores apiece while senior Taylor Canatsey has been the main distributor, leading the team with 5 assists.

Junior keeper Tiffany Holls, meanwhile, sports a 1.26 GAA while posting 3 shutouts and making 49 saves.

CSUDH, at 8-7-1, 6-7-1 CCAA, concludes its regular season on the road at CS East Bay and CS Monterey Bay this weekend, looking to move up in the west.

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