Pepperdine University
UC Santa Barbara
No. 10 Waves Battle No. 5 Gauchos in OT
9/20/2018 8:43:00 PM | Men's Water Polo
MALIBU, Calif. – The No. 10 Pepperdine men's water polo team fought hard in a shootout with No. 5 UC Santa Barbara at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on Thursday, eventually falling 16-14 after the second overtime period. Freshman Curtis Jarvis had a season-high five goals for the Waves.
The Waves (6-4) outscored the Gauchos (12-3) in the first half, 7-6, and fought hard in a very physical matchup.
Game Recap
The Waves got the first goal on the board when Mate Toth (Balatonalmadi, Hungary/Szilagyi Erzsebet Boarding School) scored in the first minutes of the game. UC Santa Barbara then scored three unanswered goals before Balazs Kosa (Budapest, Hungary/Csik Ferenc Altalanos Iskola es Gimnazium) scored, followed by Sam Paur (Poway, Calif./Poway HS), to tie the game back at three. Jarvis scored his first of five goals soon after to give the Waves a 4-3 lead before the Gauchos equalized to end the first quarter locked at four goals.
Pepperdine struck first in the second quarter, getting back-to-back goals from Chris Dilworth (Thousand Oaks, Calif./Thousand Oaks HS) and Jarvis to take a 6-4 lead. The Gauchos scored twice before Jarvis completed his hat trick to give the Waves a 7-6 lead going into half time.
After the half, the Waves and Gauchos went back-and-forth in the third, with the game never getting to more than a goal lead for either side. The Waves got goals from Jarvis, Sean Ferrari (Redwood City, Calif./St. Francis HS) and George Mooney (Whittier, Calif./La Serna HS) including a five-meter penalty conversion as time expired in the third, giving the Waves an 11-10 lead after three.
Ferrari and Jarvis scored in the final period to give the Waves a 13-12 lead, but the Gauchos scored with 1:19 left in regulation to force overtime, locked at 13.
In the first overtime period the Waves got their lone goal from Dilworth, but the Gauchos answered with two more to take a 15-14 lead into the final period, where they scored once more to take the game.
STATS
Scoring- PEPP: 4-3-4-2-1-0-14 ; UCSB: 3-3-4-3-2-1-16
Goals- PEPP: Jarvis (5), Dilworth (2), Ferrari (2), Mooney (2), Kosa, Paur, Toth ; UCSB: Jovanovic (6), Fellner (2), Gvodanovic (2), Brosnan, Lott, Nangle, Puentes, Wood, Yuno
Saves- PEPP: McKenney-11 ; UCSB: Bonchristiano-12
HIGHLIGHTS
UP NEXT
The Waves are back in action on Sunday, Sept. 23 as they take on the No. 3 team in the country in Stanford at home. The game will start at 12 p.m. at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool.
