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By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor<\/em><\/p>\n

PRINCETON, NJ. All season long, Barry King<\/strong>, head coach for George Washington\u2019s men\u2019s water polo team<\/a>, has preached to his players the importance of \u201cPlus One:\u201d not just qualifying for, but winning an NCAA first round match.<\/p>\n

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After advancing to the program\u2019s first-ever NCAA tournament last year, the Colonials fell short of a trip to California and a shot at an NCAA Final Four berth. King suggested a: \u201cJust happy to get the t-shirt\u201d attitude\u00a0doomed GW to a gut-wrenching 15-13 OT loss<\/a> after leading host Harvard late in the 2017 NCAA Men\u2019s Water Polo Tournament opener.<\/p>\n

The GW coach determined that wouldn’t happen again, though late in the third period of Saturday\u2019s 2018 NCAA\u2019s opening round match in Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool it seemed unlikely that the Colonials were going anywhere but home. Thoroughly outplayed, they languish four goals behind the host Tigers<\/a>, aiming for their own quarterfinals trip to California.<\/p>\n

Tiger freshman Wyatt Benson<\/strong> unexpectedly gave GW a shove\u2014literally\u2014that turned out to be the key moment in an electrifying 14-13 overtime victory that advanced the upstart Colonials (23-6) to a meeting with mighty UCLA (22-4), next Thursday at Stanford\u2019s Avery Aquatic Center. The winner will advance to a Final Four match-up on Saturday with second-seeded USC (28-3).<\/p>\n

Benson\u2019s push-off\u2014actual or accentuated\u2014after an exclusion 30 seconds before the end of the third period not only gifted the Colonials a five-meter penalty shot, it sparked a spectacular GW comeback, as the visitors rallied for six-straight goals, wiping out all of what was once an 11-6 Tiger lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s good to know that we can win games a lot of different ways,\u201d an exhausted but ecstatic King said immediately after the biggest win in program history. \u201cWe hadn\u2019t been in that kind of a deficit all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Henry Maas celebrating. Photo Courtesy: Christine Yardley<\/p><\/div>\n

Referencing Benson ill-timed \u201ckick them while they’re down\u201d kick, the second-year GW coach agreed the foul was a factor in his team\u2019s stunning comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat penalty gets us to within three, and that\u2019s a much-more reachable [deficit] than four,\u201d King said, then added: \u201cMuch more importantly [was] how willing our guys were to empty the tank and put it on the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a successful first-year campaign for him and freshmen Benson, Keller Mahoney<\/strong> and goalie Billy Motherway<\/strong>, Princeton Head Coach Dustin Litvak<\/strong> was disappointed\u2014both about the pivotal call and ending up on the wrong side of a late collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a penalty in the backcourt before,\u201d Litvak said about the call against his precocious freshman. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that was a turning point in the game. We get a big lead, [get] called for an offensive, then an exclusion then a penalty\u2026. It\u2019s hard to take that blow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Princeton and Head Coach Dustin Litvak left wondering what went wrong. Photo Courtesy: Christine Yardley<\/p><\/div>\n

Thinking that his team would play \u201cpossession to possession\u201d while ahead, Litvak missed out on a reunion with Bruin Head Coach Adam Wright<\/strong>, whom he worked under the previous five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we began to push more and more, creating counter-attack opportunities for the other team,\u201d he lamented. \u201cWe have to be better and smarter with the ball. They\u2019re a team that loves to push the transition\u2014we knew that going in.\u201d<\/p>\n

A positive take-away from the match was the stellar play of Motherway. Thrust into a starting role late in the season, the former Mater Dei standout was instrumental in Princeton\u2019s end of season sprint that got them an NCAA berth for the first time in three years.<\/p>\n

Watching from the stands and was Vojislav\u00a0Mitrovic<\/strong>, Princeton\u2019s all-time saves leader who graduated last spring and backstopped that 2015 Tiger team to NCAAs.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep in mind that for Motherway\u2019s first season in college, he did an amazing job,\u201d Mitrovic said, then tossed in his thoughts about what went wrong for his former teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey relaxed, they lost focus, and the rest is history.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Princeton’s Matt Payne (#12) chipped in four goals but couldn’t overcome DJ Davis or GW. Photo Courtesy: Christine Yardley<\/p><\/div>\n

The unexpected conclusion obscured how auspiciously the match opened for Motherway and George Washington. On the Colonials\u2019 first possession of the match, Andras Levai<\/strong> broke in alone on the Princeton cage, faked, but was stymied by the freshman.<\/p>\n

Levai then had another breakaway at the seven-minute mark also stuffed by Motherway. A minute and a half later, Nick Schroeder<\/strong> got GW on the board, connecting on a four-meter strike. Princeton answered back when center Logan McDonald<\/strong> beat Colonial goalie Austin Pyrch<\/strong> with a backhand shot.<\/p>\n

A minute later, Benson also exploited GW\u2019s interior defense to hit on the first of his three goals. With thirteen seconds remaining in the first, Atakan Destici<\/strong> converted a great pass from Levai into the equalizer. By then Motherway already had seven saves\u2014half of his total for the game\u2014establishing he\u2019d be tough to beat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew we had to make [Motherway] move, especially the way they were going to guard the half of the pool that Atakan was on,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n

The second period started well for the home team, as Matt Payne<\/strong>, in his final appearance wearing Princeton orange and black, struck for three-straight goals in two minutes, giving the Tigers a 5-2 lead. His first strike came at 7:36, with his team enjoying a man advantage; the second was a successful conversion of a five-meter penalty called against Destici; then the senior from Laguna Beach completed the natural hat-trick at the five-minute mark with another power play score.<\/p>\n

Motherway and the Princeton defense kept the Colonials in check until Destici broke through again with a bar down shot at 4:10. Benson and GW\u2019s Finn Lillis<\/strong> traded goals three minutes later, but the Tiger defense maintained a two-goal advantage, denying Levai on the break with time running out.<\/p>\n

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GW’s Andrew Mavis, Jack Kerwin and goalie Austin Pyrch are tough on defense. Photo Courtesy: Christine Yardley<\/p><\/div>\n

The third period turnout out to be their rallying point, but it began poorly for the visitors. On the Tigers\u2019 first possession, Alec Mendelsohn<\/strong> beat Pyrch with a lob. Henry Maas<\/strong> immediately answered to make it 7-5, beating Motherway with a skip shot. Benson hit on a power play strike at the seven-minute mark, but Andrew Mavis<\/strong> scored ten seconds later to keep GW\u2019s deficit at two.<\/p>\n

Scoring on three-straight possessions, Princeton threatened to blow their visitors out of the water. Payne scored his fourth goal of the game at 4:37 and Maloney connected twice: once after a GW defensive breakdown, then on a breakaway, putting the home team up 11-6 and forcing George Washington to burn a time-out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kinda yelled at our first years a little, [saying]: You\u2019ve had a whole season of playing high-level stuff but our effort looks like first week of camp,\u201d King said about his time-out lecture. \u201cI didn’t have to say a whole lot after that because we were getting good opportunities, we just weren\u2019t finishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether it was what the GW coach said or their drive to get that Plus One, the Colonial offense roared to life. Jordan Blosser<\/strong> scored at the 2:30 mark with GW up a man, then Destici converted the 5-meter penalty resulting from Benson ill-timed kick.<\/p>\n

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Zach Slaughter gives his team a 12-11 lead late in the fourth period. Photo Courtesy: Christine Yardley<\/p><\/div>\n

Pyrch made a big save on Payne to open the fourth period, and Levai finally solved Motherway on the break, the first of his three straight goals that caused Colonial fans to dance in the aisles. He hit a rocket from distance, then\u2014after again being stopped on the break\u2014the sophomore from Hungary scored at 4:16 to pull his team even. When Zach Slaughter<\/strong> untied it with less than a minute to play, beating Motherway with a sneaky shot, the stands erupted as GW gained its first lead since early in the contest.<\/p>\n

But the Colonial fans\u2019 all-out euphoria was interrupted, momentarily. Michael Swart<\/strong> saved the Tigers\u2019 season, scoring on the power play with 26 seconds left to tie the match at 12, sending it to extra time.<\/p>\n

After Maas gave GW a 14-12 lead in the opening minutes of the first overtime period with back-to-back weak side goals, Princeton\u2019s only response was a five-meter blast by Mendelsohn. It wasn’t enough to stop the Colonials from a date with destiny as the first George Washington polo team to advance to California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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