Kosa Hits Milestone But Waves Drop Two Home Games

Saturday, September 18

Malibu, Calif.

1:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

5-4

Stanford

9-0

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Stanford	3	2	5	1	11
Pepperdine	1	2	1	5	9

Balazs Kosa

Photo by: Jeff Golden

9/18/2021 7:19:00 PM | Men's Water Polo

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By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, California – Balazs Kosa hit a major career scoring milestone for the #10 Pepperdine men's water polo team on Saturday but the Waves dropped two home games to highly ranked opponents, falling 11-9 to #3 Stanford and 14-9 to #11 Princeton.

Kosa scored twice in each match against the Cardinal (9-0) and the Tigers (9-2) to reach 200 career goals for the Waves (5-5).

BIG WAVES

Senior attacker Balazs Kosa (Budapest, Hungary) became the 12th Wave in Pepperdine history to reach the milestone of 200 goals. He had a team-high four goals on the day.
Sophomore Nico Tierney (Sierra Madre, Calif./Harvard-Westlake HS) scored twice against Stanford and had a team-high four assists over the two games.
Senior utility Sean Ferrari (Redwood City, Calif./St. Francis HS) and sophomore attacker Christian Hosea (San Clements, Calif./San Clemente HS) both scored a total of three goals on Saturday.

GAME #1 RECAP

Ferrari got the Waves on the board first, but Stanford scored the next to four to take a 4-1 lead midway through the second quarter. Kosa scored just before halftime to bring the Waves within two at 5-3. The Cardinal owned the third quarter, however, tallying five goals to the Waves' one to take a 10-4 lead at the period break. Pepperdine made a game of it again in the fourth quarter, reversing things and scoring five goals to the Cardinal's one, with Tierney notching two of them.

STAN 3-2-5-1---11
PEPP 1-2-1-5---9
Pepperdine goals: Balazs Kosa 2, Nico Tierney 2, Zach Arthur 1, Sean Ferrari 1, Christian Hosea 1, Jake Howerton 1, Kyle Thomas 1.

GAME #2 RECAP

The game was tied 2-2 late in the first period when the Tigers then ran off three straight goals. The Tigers scored seven times in the second quarter to take a 10-5 lead at halftime. Goals by freshman attacker Kyle Thomas (Covina, Calif./Loyola HS), Kosa and Ferrari made it a three-goal game at 11-8 with seven minutes to play, but Pepperdine would get no closer.

PRIN 3-7-1-3---14
PEPP 2-3-2-2---9
Pepperdine goals: Sean Ferrari 2, Christian Hosea 2, Balazs Kosa 2, Zach Arthur 1, Austin Smit 1, Kurt Thomas 1.

UP NEXT

California hosts the MPSF Invitational next weekend (Sept. 24-26). The Waves will open the tournament against Pacific on Friday at 3:20 p.m.