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The news came like a thunderclap; #1 University of Southern California, the defending national champions, lost a match in their opening weekend of play for the first time since 1996. Adding insult to injury, the 13-9 defeat came at the hands of UC Santa Barbara, a team that had not beaten the Trojans in almost 30 years (1990)\u2014a streak of 55 straight defeats.<\/p>\n

Clearly, in the absence of SC’s long-time head coach Jovan Vavic<\/strong>\u2014fired<\/a> last March as part of the Varsity Blues scandal\u2014there\u2019s a new world order in men\u2019s and women\u2019s water polo. Case in point: one-time #4 Cal (3-3) lost twice this weekend. It’s the first time this has happened so early in the season during Head Coach Kirk Everist’s<\/strong> 18 year tenure leading the Golden Bears.<\/p>\n

Luckily, UCLA and Stanford were playing exhibition matches against Pro Recco, the Italian professional club that contains eight members of Italy’s national team that claimed the 2019 FINA World Championship\u2014so the Bruins’ and Cardinal’s lofty positions in the Collegiate Water Polo Association polls will not be threatened this week.<\/p>\n

[CWPA Top 20 Poll; Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara Beat Cal, Rise to #4<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

Based upon their strong start to the season, can UCSB be denied recognition as the nation’s top team? If ranked number one, it would be the first time since the Gauchos won the NCAA tournament back in 1979. Wolf Wigo\u2019s<\/strong> squad has opened at 9-0 for the first time in program history; the NCAA champs opened at 7-1-1, and lost to Cal, the runners-up in the \u201978 tournament; they would lose one more match all season.<\/p>\n

UCSB features an explosive offense anchored by Cole Brosnan<\/strong>, Ivan Gvozdanovi<\/strong> and Jacob Halle<\/strong>\u2014and sport a two-headed goalie arrangement, with newcomer Danny Roland<\/strong>, architect of last week\u2019s telling upset of then #4 Cal, sharing netminding duties with Tiago Bonchristiano<\/strong>, last year’s primary goalie.<\/p>\n

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You think these guys are excited?! Photo Courtesy: Eric Isaacs<\/p><\/div>\n

Against USC, the Gauchos enjoyed leads of 4-1 and 10-6 before winning comfortably behind Brosnan\u2019s five goals and three assists as well as ten saves by Roland. With wins over Cal, #5 Long Beach State and #7 Pepperdine in addition to their defeat of USC, no one in the country has played a tougher schedule\u2014and had more success\u2014than UCSB.<\/p>\n

On the other coast, the Tritons of UC San Diego came East for the Princeton Invitational where they were stars of the tournament through Saturday night, when Harvard stepped in and proved the East could compete with a top team from the West. Before that 12-11 win by the Crimson\u2014which moves Ted Minnis\u2019<\/strong> team to 5-0 early in the season\u2014the Tritons were in a wild game with the host Tigers on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Princeton broke out to a 3-0 lead, and led all the way until the fourth quarter, when UCSD\u2019s Karlo Krmek<\/strong> beat Billy Motherway<\/strong> three minutes in to give the Tritons an 8-7 lead. With a minute left, Connor Turnbow-Lindenstadt<\/strong>, the Tritons’ All-American from Newport Harbor, muscled a shot past Motherway in front but paid for it with a bloody nose. After Princeton\u2019s Yurian Quinones<\/strong> made it a one goal game with a power play goal with 39 seconds remaining, things got very strange.<\/p>\n

UCSD head coach Denny Harper<\/strong> ordered a stall for his team\u2019s possession, admonishing them that they had no timeouts remaining. UCSD burned the clock down to 9 second left but inexplicably deposited the ball mid-tank, where Princeton took over. With a second remaining there was a scramble for the ball at the five-meter mark in the Tritons\u2019 half. It appeared that Quinones was setting up for a last gasp shot after an ordinary foul\u2014but then all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n

The referee on the pool deck was certain that Harper called time-out; doing so without the ball results in a five-meter penalty shot which\u2014much to Harper\u2019s dismay\u2014was the call. After a few choice words, the UCSD coach was red carded and left the deck before Princeton’s Keller Maloney<\/strong> beat the Trirton goalie Jack Turner<\/strong>, equalizing the match at 9-all.<\/p>\n

After a brief intermission\u2014and now led by Matt Ustaszewski<\/strong>, Harper\u2019s assistant the past 10 years\u2014the Triton quickly broke out on top in the first overtime behind Skyler Munatones’ <\/strong>goal. Cooper Milton<\/strong> then gave his team a referee-proof lead half a minute later, beating Motherway with the Tigers a man down. A late goal by Maloney\u2014his third of the match\u2014late in the second overtime period made it a one-goal contest, but there was no intervention before time ran out on an 11-10 Triton win.<\/p>\n

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Princeton’s Keller Maloney. Photo Courtesy: Nicole Maloney<\/p><\/div>\n

A perfect UCSD run in Princeton was halted by an inspired Harvard effort, as Crimson goalie Noah Hodge<\/strong> made ten saves while Jackson Enright<\/strong> and Charlie Owens<\/strong> each produced hat-tricks to counter three-goal efforts by Munatones and Konstantin Karlov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While the Tritons fly back home taking three of four from the best the East has to offer\u2014UCSD also beat #14 Bucknell and #17 St. Francis Brooklyn\u2014Harvard and Princeton can focus on regional opponents. The Tigers host Wagner and Navy this weekend, while the Crimson will travel to Lewisburg, PA to face, among others, #15 George Washington. Both will be far, far away for the amazing action out West\u2014with more twists to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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