IRVINE, California – The #9 Pepperdine men's water polo team's final road trip of the regular season was unsuccessful, as the Waves fell at #11 UC Irvine 12-10 on Saturday afternoon in Golden Coast Conference play.
The Waves (12-13, 1-3) got off to a slow start as the Anteaters (14-10, 2-2) scored the first three goals of the contest, and Pepperdine never caught up.
BIG WAVES
- Junior center Travis Reynolds (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif./Loyola HS) tied his career high with three goals.
- Senior attacker Curtis Jarvis (Huntington Beach, Calif./Huntington Beach HS) had two goals and two assists.
- Freshman attacker Sandor Gal (Budapest, Hungary) had two goals.
GAME RECAP
The Anteaters went up 3-0 and it took more than six minutes before junior center defender
Nico Tierney (Sierra Madre, Calif./Harvard-Westlake HS) opened Pepperdine's scoring on a 6-on-5. The Waves got within a goal multiple times during the contest, the last one coming at 9-8 on a score by freshman attacker
Adam Csapo (Budapest, Hungary) with two minutes left in the third period. But, UCI went up 10-8 after three quarters, and took another three-goal lead at 11-8 early in the fourth, while the Waves got no closer than the final margin of two.
UCI 3-5-2-2---12
PEPP 2-3-3-2---10
Pepperdine goals: Travis Reynolds 3,
Sandor Gal 2,
Curtis Jarvis 2,
Adam Csapo 1,
Austin Smit 1,
Nico Tierney 1.
UP NEXT
Pepperdine closes out the regular season at home next Saturday (Nov. 12) against UC Santa Barbara at noon. The Waves' seven seniors will be honored before the game.
