LONG BEACH, CA – #1 ranked Pepperdine University advanced to the semifinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Men’s Water Polo Championships Friday afternoon at the Belmont Plaza Pool. <\/p>\n
The Waves, who are 32-1 overall, downed the #8-seeded Long Beach State 49ers 11-2. LBSU won a play-in game on Friday morning, downing Pacific 13-5, to advance to its meeting with Pepperdine. In other first round action California defeated UC Santa Barbara, 11-7, Stanford downed UC Irvine, 6-5 and USC beat cross-town rival UCLA, 8-7. <\/p>\n
In the opening game California used two goals apiece by Brad Kittredge, Ryan Flynn, Albert Won and Peter Stern to down UC Santa Barbara, 11-7. With the score tied at 6-6 after three quarters, California outscored the Gauchos 5-1 in the final quarter. Gardner scored all three of his goals in the fourth period to spur the Golden Bears to victory. His goals were at 6:17, giving Cal a 7-6 lead, 3:45 and 2:00. <\/p>\n
Stanford was able to hold off UC Irvine as Sean Joy’s goal at 3:23 proved to be the winner. David Hay and Brian Heifferon both had two goals each for Stanford. Irvine trailed 4-2 after the third quarter but fought back to tie the score at 5-5. Greg Finley scored a two-point goal at 6:20. Heifferon scored at 6:00 for the Cardinal and then Dan Klatt scored at 5:40 for the Anteaters to tie the game. Joy’s goal spoiled a fine effort by UCI goaltender Tom Davis who had seven saves. Chris Aguilera had eight saves for the Cardinal. <\/p>\n
In the third game, USC held on for an exciting 8-7 win over UCLA. The Trojans jumped to a 6-2 lead after one quarter as Marko Pintaric and Mateo Juric both had two-point goals for the Trojans. UCLA battled back though from an 8-3 deficit as Matt Armato had two of his three goals in the final period. His final goal, at 2:07, brought the Bruins to within one goal, 8-7, and USC goalie Richard McEvoy stopped the Bruins last second shot. McEvoy finished with seven goalie saves. <\/p>\n
In the last game of the day, Pepperdine jumped on Long Beach State early, scoring three goals in the first period and four more in the second to take a 7-1 halftime lead. Alex Rodriguex had three goals for the #1-ranked Waves and Jack Kocur and Andy Bruininga had two each. Goalie Merrill Moses recorded seven goalie saves. For the 49ers Jeffrey Colyer had both LBSU goals. <\/p>\n
In Friday morning’s play-in game between Long Beach State and Pacific, the 49ers’ Coyler had five goals and Joey Gendron tallied two (1 2-pointer) and Vincent Trotter scored two to lead the 49ers to a 13-5 win over the Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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