{"id":278416,"date":"2017-09-26T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=278416"},"modified":"2017-09-27T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:14:15","slug":"ucla-water-polo-back-on-top-after-mountain-pacific-invitational-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ucla-water-polo-back-on-top-after-mountain-pacific-invitational-win\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Water Polo Back on Top After Mountain Pacific Invitational Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beating its toughest rivals\u2014#1 Cal and #2 USC\u2014this weekend in Los Angeles at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center allowed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclabruins.com\/index.aspx?path=mwpolo\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA men\u2019s water polo team<\/a> to rise all the way to the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usawaterpolo.org\/community\/national-collegiate-rankings.html\" target=\"_blank\">national polls<\/a>. The Bruins, who on Sunday captured their second straight <a href=\"http:\/\/usctrojans.com\/sports\/2017\/8\/29\/2017-mountain-pacific-invitational-central.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mountain Pacific Invitational<\/strong> <\/a>tournament title with a decisive 13-11 win over the host Trojans, returned to a familiar place: on top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/collegiatewaterpolo.org\/polls\/2017-mens-varsity-polls-week-4september-27\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Collegiate Water Polo Association Men\u2019s Varsity Poll<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"278043\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2017-mpsf-mens-invitational-opens-today-in-los-angeles\/mpsf-shield-final\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mpsf-shield-final.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"939,845\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mpsf-shield-final\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;09\/22\/17&lt;br \/&gt;\nmpsf-shield-final&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mpsf-shield-final-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mpsf-shield-final.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-278043\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mpsf-shield-final-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"mpsf-shield-final\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mpsf-shield-final-533x480.jpg 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mpsf-shield-final-222x200.jpg 222w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mpsf-shield-final.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the end of 2014 until the next to last weekend of 2016, when USC snapped its NCAA record 57-match win streak, UCLA spent a total of 30 straight weeks as the nation\u2019s top-ranked team. That their young squad\u2014the Bruins lost nine players to graduation last spring\u2014would leapfrog three other teams, including #3 Stanford, to the top of this week&#8217;s rankings is a testament to head coach <strong>Adam Wright<\/strong> and the perennial talent magnet that is Westwood.<\/p>\n<p>Senior <strong>Max Irving<\/strong>, clearly a better player after a summer spent playing with the U.S. Senior National Men\u2019s Team at the FINA World Water Polo Championship, has tallied 22 goals this season for unbeaten UCLA (12-0). But the team\u2019s leading scorer is freshman lefty <strong>Nicolas Saveljic<\/strong> (26 goals), while red-shirt sophomore <strong>Alex Wolf<\/strong>\u2014 making almost 10 saves a game\u2014in eight starts has complied a sterling 6.17 goals against average, just behind USC\u2019s <strong>McQuin Baron<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/goalies-rule-princetons-johnson-uscs-baron-win-cutino-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Pete Cutino award winner<\/a>, for third place in the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing <strong>Luca Cupido<\/strong> of Cal by one goal at the top of the MPSF\u2019s scoring sheet, Saveljic has been nothing short of a revelation. Against the Golden Bears in the Mountain Pacific Invitational semifinal, he notched a hat trick in leading his team to a 9-8 overtime victory over the reigning national champions. After Cupido gave Cal an early 1-0 lead, UCLA went ahead 2-1 in first period lead and never trailed again. <strong>Johnny Hooper\u2019s<\/strong> conversion of a penalty shot with 1:20 left in the game tied the game at 6, but the Bruins scored three goals over two overtime periods to outlast Hooper and the Golden Bears.<\/p>\n<p>In the final against USC, UCLA was down 4-2 after the first period but then outscored their rivals 7-4 over the next two periods to take a 9-8 lead into the fourth. Goals by <strong>Alex Roelse<\/strong>, Irving, Saveljic and Irving again iced the win for the Bruins and changed what had started off as a shaky weekend\u2014a narrow 7-4 win Friday against #20 Loyola Marymount and a narrow 9-8 decision over #5 Pacific\u2014into one of the more memorable early season starts in program history.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no easy road ahead as the Bruins travel to face #7 UC Irvine and then #10 Pepperdine on consecutive weekends before facing Cal Baptist and #6 Long Beach State at home. Cal will come to Spieker Aquatics Center on October 21 seeking payback, as will #4 Pacific the following weekend. Trips to #5 Stanford and a to San Jose State are preludes to UCLA\u2019s annual end-of regular season battle with arch-rival USC on November 11 at Spieker before the MPFS tournament begins the following weekend at Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Bruins be at the top of the polls that late in the season? It\u2019s hard to predict\u2014but after its impressive run this weekend, perhaps nothing is beyond this UCLA squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Beating its toughest rivals\u2014#1 Cal and #2 USC\u2014this weekend in Los Angeles at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center allowed the UCLA men\u2019s water polo team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4875,"featured_media":278417,"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":[383,47732,63511,62272,42084,62274,42639,60192,63689,63748,63372,60272,61959,63503],"class_list":["post-278416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-polo","tag-adam-wright","tag-alex-wolf","tag-cal-water-polo","tag-johnny-hooper","tag-luca-cupido","tag-max-irving","tag-mcquin-baron","tag-michael-randazzo","tag-mountain-pacific-invitational","tag-nicolas-saveljic","tag-pacific-water-polo","tag-stanford-water-polo","tag-ucla-water-polo","tag-usc-water-polo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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