The stands were packed, the team was juiced, and if the first eight minutes of water polo were an indication of how the weekend would unfold, the Aggies were golden.
In a year where quarterback Greg Denham has been all the talk of the UC Davis offense, it was Denham's backup who put the Aggies on his back Saturday afternoon in Portland, Ore.
With a rough start to the 2009 campaign, the Aggies dug themselves into a hole. After tying at Cal State Northridge and losing to UC Irvine at home, that hole is deeper.
Even after defeating both Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara last weekend, head coach Jamie Holmes would not let her team take the Cal State Northridge lightly in a Saturday night contest in the Matadome.