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Last Saturday Brooklyn\u2014not known as a hot bed of water polo activity\u2014was teeming with the sport, played at both the age group and collegiate levels.<\/p>\n

Starting early in the morning, with the most important match of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference<\/a> (MAAC) women\u2019s regular season, and stretching until evening, with a development scrimmage for age group players in Sheepshead Bay, New York City\u2019s most populous borough was alive with the joys of polo, despite a distinct limitation associated with Northeastern facilities: shallow-deep pools.<\/p>\n

The MAAC\u2019s most important game\u2014played in the friendly confines of Brooklyn<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For competition and cost efficiencies, each season on four separate dates all eight MAAC teams converge on one pool and spend two days packing in a full slate of conference play. Last weekend was St. Francis Brooklyn\u2019s turn<\/a>, and the Generoso Pope Athletic Center hosted six matches over two days.<\/p>\n

As in years past, the MAAC is a two-team race between challenger Marist and five-time champion Wagner. The regular season has become a exercise in Seahawk perfection. Saturday\u2019s match presented the Red Foxes a chance to not only leapfrog their rivals in the conference standings, but a prime opportunity to snap a Seahawks MAAC win streak that had ballooned to 51-straight.<\/p>\n

Victimized in the past five MAAC finals\u2014and losers of the last 12 meetings between the two teams\u2014an 11-10 loss<\/a> to Wagner last month at the LMU Invitational in Los Angeles suggested that Marist was closing the gap.<\/p>\n

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St. Francis pool Photo Courtesy: M. Randazzo<\/p><\/div>\n

That the two teams\u2019 most meaningful regular season meet-up of 2019 would be at St. Francis Brooklyn is fitting. Built in 1974, the pool is accessible by a series of winding staircase four stories below the street\u2014and will never be confused with the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla, which inspired the design of the main waiting room in the old Pennsylvania Station, demolished in 1963.<\/p>\n

With a narrow 25-yard by 8 lane footprint, a shallow end that reaches a five-foot depth only by filling to the very top, and a rectangular volume that compresses both heat and sound, the home of\u00a0 Terriers\u2019 aquatics is as intimate a viewing environment as it is oppressive for those unfamiliar with distinctive Northeast conditions; shallow-deep indoor pools.<\/p>\n

In short, an ideal venue for the Seahawks, who plays in an even tinier indoor pool in Staten Island.<\/p>\n

Daniel Lizotte<\/strong>, whose daughter Myriam is a freshman, for Marist, had not been to St. Francis before\u2014and therefore never experienced anything like the Terriers\u2019 home pool. A native of Quebec, the effusive Lizotte agreed that the peculiar conditions were different\u2014but better that the Seahawks\u2019 configuration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very different than anything we have in Canada,\u201d he said at halftime. \u201cbut I prefer this to Wagner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marist freshman Myriam Lizotte. Photo Courtesy: Marist Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Lizotte acknowledged the significance of this early Saturday morning meeting. His daughter: \u201c[K]new this would be a good challenge today. She\u2019s ready and the team is ready for it,\u201d he said, then added: \u201cNow\u2019s the time to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other side of the bleachers, Shannon Wells<\/strong>, was seated amongst a handful of Wagner fans. Wells, whose daughter Mikaela is a freshman goalie for the Seahawks, agreed that this was the season\u2019s most important match thus far, and admitted to being: \u201cVery nervous\u2026 I\u2019m hoping they can get it!\u201d<\/p>\n

From Lake Elsinore, California, roughly an hour\u2019s drive due east from Los Angeles, she had never been to St. Francis before. Seemingly oblivious to the pool’s circumstances, Wells said that: \u201cMarist is gonna come out hard; this is an important game for them too.,\u201d but quickly added that her daughter\u2019s team: \u201cHave what they need\u2014they just have to go after it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which they did. A match that the Red Foxes led 6-5 with two minutes remaining in the half unraveled just before intermission. Wagner’s Sofia Alvarez<\/strong>, Kristy Donkin<\/strong> and Malia Josephson<\/strong> scored against goalie Carsen Horvatich<\/strong>, with Josephson scoring just three seconds before the half.<\/p>\n

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Penn Station in undated photo. Photo Courtesy: Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n

Marist rallied to tie early in the third period, but Wagner kept pace and led by two goals after three and four by the end. Grace Doerfler<\/strong>, the Red Foxes\u2019 imposing set, scored twice but was mostly neutralized by the Wagner\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n

The convincing 16-12 win\u2014the Seahawks\u2019 52nd straight conference victory\u2014confirmed a prevailing theory<\/a>: only a monumental upset in the MAAC title match two weeks from now will derail Wagner from an unprecedented sixth straight NCAA berth.<\/p>\n

Sheepshead Bay offers aquatic opportunities and challenges<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nine miles south of St. Francis\u2019 Brooklyn Heights location is Sheepshead Bay, home to the Kings Bay YM-YWHA, and the Y Pro boys\u2019 water polo team. Like the Terriers’ pool, the Kings Bay aquatics facility is limited. At first glance, a four-lane pool with one end four feet deep does not seem feasible for polo\u2014but the assembled youth players were oblivious to this. Y Pro\u2019s development squad hosted the Brooklyn Hustle, a club from downtown Brooklyn whose roots trace back to St. Francis. Birthed almost forty years in the very same pool as the morning\u2019s MAAC contest, the Hustle have gone through a number of coaching configuration, having recently been taken over by a pair of European coaches with extensive professional experience.<\/p>\n

Bela Rex-Kiss<\/strong> won the 2001 Hungarian Cup as a member of Vasas SC<\/em> in Budapest before a year-long stint playing for the Terriers. A New York City resident since 2002, for a number of years he has been the player coach for the Asphalt Green masters team as well as leading their youth polo program.<\/p>\n

Rex-Kiss was solo on the Kings Bay pool deck Saturday because his fellow coach, Andrei Draghici<\/strong>, was shepherding a group of U12 players through a pair of scrimmages in Connecticut. A former Romanian junior national team player as well as pro with Rapid Bucuresti\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Sportul Studestesc<\/em>, since last May Draghici, along with Rex-Kiss, has provided a strong foundation of coaching experience for the approximately 70 Hustle members.<\/p>\n

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Eager parents at King’s Bay YMHA. Photo Courtesy: M. Randazzo<\/p><\/div>\n

Coaching Y Pro is Irakli Sanadze<\/strong>. A long-time coach for Y Pro, Sanadze is also a Collegiate Water Polo Association referee who travels up and down the East Coast refereeing NCAA varsity matches. With 12U and 14U teams, Y Pro has an excellent program that has produced Division I players but, most important, is very competitive against Northeastern opponents.<\/p>\n

[On The Record with Eugene Prokhin, Head Coach for Y Pro Water Polo]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The players spread out in the \u201cumbrella\u201d formation and are ready. The quality of play is what might be expected from a group of 9, 10 and 11 year olds relatively new to the sport. There\u2019s blown defensive assignments, select players wandering aimlessly in the pool\u2014and exciting moments when a pint-sized nine-year-old for the Hustle repeatedly outswims his opponents for one-on-none breaks against the goalie.<\/p>\n

With passion for polo both in and out of the pool, there’s plenty of joy to go around. A crowd of parents peering from over the balcony regularly whoop it up whenever their team scored, which is often.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s obviously no sunlight or fresh air, but\u2014besides these qualities most associated with California polo\u2014what\u2019s the real the difference between Brooklyn and say, Newport Harbor? Wherever there’s a pool, a net and a ball, excitement will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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