"As everybody knows, we have been to three consecutive finals. We never lost one, we just did not advance because of penalty kicks," said head coach Dwayne Shaffer. "I am proud of this team and all of the student-athletes because they do everything right. We play hard, we are a very good team, and all credit goes to the players. All I do is stay out of their way, let them do what they do best, and it worked out well for us today.

"Every year I coached at UC Davis has been enjoyable, but this season ranks up there at the top right now because we have a great program, and the tournament format did not fall our way a lot of the time. Today, it did."