The USA Women’s National Team, defending FINA World Champions, delivered a convincing victory to start their run at the 2017 FINA Water Polo World Championships in Hungary with a 24-2 win over South Africa.\u00a0Jamie Neushul<\/strong>\u00a0(Isla Vista, CA\/Stanford\/Santa Barbara 805) scored a game high six goals,\u00a0Melissa Seidemann<\/strong>\u00a0(Walnut Creek, CA\/Stanford\/NYAC) added five tallies and Team USA cruised to a victory that was never in doubt.\u00a0Gabby Stone<\/strong>\u00a0(La Jolla, CA\/Stanford\/SD Shores) went three quarters in net recording two saves while\u00a0Amanda Longan<\/strong>\u00a0(Moorpark, CA\/USC\/Santa Barbara 805) handled the fourth adding a save.<\/p>\n Team USA returns to play\u00a0on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0against Spain at\u00a04:30am et<\/span><\/span>\/1:30am pt. The game will air on Olympic Channel on delay at\u00a04pm et<\/span><\/span>\/1pm pt and will likely stream LIVE at NBCSports.com.<\/p>\n The United States stormed out to a 6-0 lead after the first quarter and put the match away by halftime building a 13-0 lead.\u00a0Jamie Neushul\u00a0scored three in the first with Seidemann adding two in the second to help build the lead. South Africa broke through in the third quarter with two goals scored but it wouldn’t put a dent in the Team USA momentum as five more goals were added, the last coming from\u00a0Aria Fischer<\/strong>\u00a0(Laguna Beach, CA\/Laguna Beach HS\/SET). Team USA piled on six more goals in the fourth to take the win by 22.<\/p>\n Adam Krikorian<\/strong>\u00a0(USA) \u2014 Head Coach<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always great to get a game under our belt, to prepare us for the next game and the game after that. We are pleased with the win, but we are more pleased with getting a game under our belt. I\u2019m not sure it will help us to prepare, only time will tell. There are always nervous feelings any time you play the first game.\u201d<\/p>\n Rachel Fattal\u00a0<\/strong>(USA) \u2014 Three goals<\/p>\n \u201cIt was good. It was the first game here and I think for the first game we did it well. I think we have a good team and I\u2019m excited and I think we are going to get better each game we play together. It\u2019s going to be very good, hopefully.\u201d<\/p>\n USA 24 (6, 7, 5, 6) J. Neushul 6, M. Seidemann 5, K. Neushul 3, R. Fattal 3, P. Hauschild 2, M. Fischer 2, A. Fischer 2, A. Williams 1 Press release courtesy of USA Water Polo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Women’s Water Polo World Championships: USA vs. South Africa The USA Women’s National Team, defending FINA World Champions, delivered a convincing victory to start their run at the 2017 FINA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":259589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[62565,59716,3384,54089,50841,61131,54091,39212,32490,54095,62566],"class_list":["post-266290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-polo","tag-2017-fina-water-polo-world-championships","tag-2017-fina-world-championships","tag-adam-krikorian","tag-amanda-longan","tag-aria-fischer","tag-gabby-stone","tag-jamie-neushul","tag-melissa-seidemann","tag-rachel-fattal","tag-usa-womens-water-polo","tag-water-polo-world-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nFlash Quotes<\/h3>\n
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