The weekend of October 20, the Aggies’ first back-to-back home stand started off against UC Santa Cruz, whom the Aggies faced for the first time this season. Coming off losses in the first two games of the season, UC Davis was hungry for a win. Right off the bat, the Aggies took charge of the game with Chris Hamamjy’s first goal of the season, capitalizing on a slick pass from Kaz Machida. The Aggies would continue to find chances, but the Banana Slugs would find their rhyth

This last weekend, the Aggies kicked off their season with a Friday evening game in San Mateo against Stanford University and a Saturday night game at home in Vacaville against Santa Clara University. Unfortunately, due to the California wildfires, the Aggies were unable to have one last practice before the weekend and went in with only three practices together. Nonetheless, the show went on, and the Aggies played their first games together. Although in previous years, UC D