The Chico State women's soccer team's Senior Day 2015 started with giggles and gratitude – even a few moist eyes – and ended with a 3-0 win that earned the Wildcats sole possession of second place in the final California Collegiate Athletic Association standings and a first-round bye in the CCAA Championship Tournament. It was a sunny Halloween afternoon filled with smiles and celebration.
 

Erin Woods logged a goal and assist, Pooja Patel and Lindsey Dias scored a goal apiece, and Ella Fries and Brooke Coelho had an assist apiece as the Wildcats wrapped up the regular season with a 3-0 win against San Francisco State.

PHOTO GALLERY OF SATURDAY'S FUN
 
Now 12-4-2 overall and 8-3-1 in the CCAA, the Wildcats will play Tuesday's Stanislaus State-Cal State L.A. winner Friday at 11 a.m. in the CCAA Championship Tournament semifinals.
 
The winner of the CCAA Championship Tournament earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship Tournament. The West Region will get six entrants in all. Prior to their two wins this weekend, the Wildcats were ranked No. 6 in the West.
 
But the focus was on the seniors Saturday. Jojo Smyth, Fries, Nicole Roberts, and Cassi Scroggins were honored prior to the match in a ceremony in which Smyth's good friend Patrick "Steamboat" MacDonald, Fries' dog Mabel, Roberts' fascination with SpongeBob SquarePants, and raucous laughter about Scroggins' partiality toward pigs stole the show.
 
Then Fries, the team's lone senior without a start prior to Sunday, connected with Woods on a corner kick just 9:59 into the match to give the Wildcats the lead for good.
 
Patel made it 2-0 in the 32^nd minute, assisted by Woods and Dias. Dias dropped Woods' free kick to the fee of Patel, who pounded it home from atop the 18-yard box. 

The Wildcats put the match away in the 59^th minute when Coelho's cross was clipped by a defender but deflected right to its intended target – Dias. The junior midfielder made it count, taking one touch and them hammering a shot inside the far post.
 
Dias and Patel finished the regular season atop the conference with nine goals apiece. Patel leads the league with 26 points and Dias is second with 25.
 
Mackenzie Boulton needed just one save to bag her eighth clean sheet of the season thanks to the solid play of defenders Scroggins, Woods, Coelho and Devon Morones.

2015 CCAA CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT BRACKET