MALIBU, Calif. - The No. 7 Pepperdine men's water polo team took No. 10 UCSB all the way into the last 15 seconds of the second overtime period before falling, 11-10 in the final home match of the season. Marko Asic and Chris Dilworth both had hat tricks for the Waves.

WAVES 10, UCSB 11

Box Score

In the final seconds of regulation, Mark Urban (Budapest, Hungary/Diablo Valley College) put a ball past the UCSB keeper to tie the game at 9, sending it to overtime. In the overtime period, UCSB got a couple quick goals, to give them the 11-9 lead. Dilworth (Thousand Oaks, Calif./Thousand Oaks HS) put a ball in the back of the net in the second overtime period, but it was too little too late for the Waves, who fell to 17-12 on the year. UCSB improved to 10-11.

During regulation, it was a back and forth game the entire match with nine lead changes. Dilworth got the scoring started from the Waves, with Asic (Laguna Niguel, Calif./Dana Hills HS) and Kenneth Keller (Long Beach, Calif./Los Alamitos HS) also getting in on the action in the first quarter. Keller scored the Waves' lone goal in the second quarter, and the game went into halftime with a 4-4 tie. Asic started the second half strong for the Waves, getting his second penalty-shot goal of the game. He followed up with another goal, and the Waves led 6-5 going into the fourth quarter. Mate Toth (Balatonalmadi, Hungary/Szilagyi Erzsebet Boarding School) got his lone goal of the match in the fourth quarter.

HIGHLIGHTS

STATS

SCORING: PEPP--3--1--2--3--1--0--10 ; UCSB -3--1--1--4--2--0--11

GOALS: PEPP--Asic 3, Dilworth 3, Keller 2, Toth, Urban ; UCSB-- Cotterill 3, Hauschild 2, Jordan 2, Haket

SAVES: PEPP--Rhodes 11 ; UCSB-- Macdonald 10

UP NEXT

The Waves will be back in action next weekend at the Golden Coast Conference Tournament in Irvine, Calif. The Tournament will begin on Nov. 17.

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