MALIBU, Calif. - The No. 8 Pepperdine men's water polo team suffered a 14-8 loss to No. 3 USC on Saturday afternoon.

Senior Clayton Snyder (Seal Beach, Calif./Los Alamitos HS) was the high-scorer for Pepperdine with three goals. Snyder scored his 100th career goal in today's match. Junior Andrew Milcovich (Walnut Creek, Calif./De La Salle HS) netted two goals. Freshman Colin Carroll (Fountain Valley, Calif./Mater Dei HS) was credited with 10 saves in the goal.

The Trojans (9-1) got off to strong start with five goals scored to the Waves (3-6) one in the first period. Each team scored two goals in the second period to make the score 7-3, at the half. USC came back in the third period with another big 5-1 scoring run and the lead was extended with the Trojans up 12-7. Pepperdine netted one goal to USC's two in the final period to end the game with the Trojans up at 14-8.

Next up, the Waves meet Long Beach on Oct. 3 at 11 a.m. at the Raleigh-Runnels Pool on the Pepperdine Malibu campus.

Pepperdine vs. USC 14-8

                         1         2        3        4

PEP                  1         2        4        1     8

USC                  5        2        5        2     14

Pepperdine Goals: (Clayton Snyder 3, Andrew Milcovich 2, Brett Auer 1, Taylor Watson 1, Preston Lujan 1) 8

USC Goals: (Justin Rappel 3, Kyle Sterling 3, J.W. Krumpholz 2, Matt Sagehorn 2, Shea Buckner 1, Anthony Artukovich 1, Michael Rosenthal 1, Peter Kurzeka 1) 14

Goalie Saves (Colin Carroll (PEP) 10, Joel Dennerly (USC) 8