Waves Fall at #4 Pacific in High-Scoring Battle

Saturday, October 15

Stockton, Calif.

1:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

Pacific

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Pepperdine	3	3	2	5	13
Pacific	5	6	4	3	18

Nico Tierney

Photo by: Charlie Blake

10/15/2022 3:25:00 PM | Men's Water Polo

Box Score

By: by Athletic Communications

STOCKTON, California – First place in the Golden Coast Conference was on the line on Saturday afternoon, and after a high-scoring contest, #4 Pacific defeated the #10 Pepperdine men's water polo team 18-13.

The Waves (11-10, 1-1) never led after the Tigers (17-3, 2-0) scored the first four goals of the game.

BIG WAVES

Graduate attacker Dennis Blyashov (Carlsbad, Calif./Harvard) and junior center defender Nico Tierney (Sierra Madre, Calif./Harvard-Westlake HS) both scored three goals for the Waves.
Junior attacker Anthony D'Ambra (Rolling Hills, Calif./Palos Verdes HS) and senior attacker Curtis Jarvis (Huntington Beach, Calif./Huntington Beach HS) each scored a pair of goals. D'Ambra also had three assists.

GAME RECAP

After the Tigers scored four goals in the first 5+ minutes, the Waves were forced to play catch-up the entire way. D'Ambra netted the Waves' first goal of the game 5 1/2 minutes in. That started a run of three straight goals, putting the Waves within one at 4-3 late in the first quarter. But Pacific then ran off five straight goals to go up 9-3 before Blyashov scored twice midway through the second quarter.

It was 11-6 at halftime, and Pacific scored the first two goals after the break. The Tigers led 15-8 heading to the final quarter. Pepperdine won the fourth quarter with five goals (two of them by Tierney) to Pacific's three to narrow the final margin.

PAC 5-6-4-3---18
PEPP 3-3-2-5---13
Pepperdine goals: Dennis Blyashov 3, Nico Tierney 3, Anthony D'Ambra 2, Curtis Jarvis 2, Sandor Gal 1, Christian Hosea 1, Matty Walsh 1.

UP NEXT

Pepperdine has two non-conference home games next week, as the Waves will face #12 Princeton on Tuesday (Oct. 18) at 2 p.m. and #5 USC on Saturday (Oct. 22) at 12 p.m. Both games will be streamed on the WCC Network.