Pepperdine Uses Stellar Defense to Defeat Santa Clara

Sunday, November 5

Santa Clara, Calif.

12:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

Santa Clara

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Pepperdine	2	4	4	1	11
Santa Clara	1	1	1	3	6

Photo by: Jeff Golden

Pepperdine Uses Stellar Defense to Defeat Santa Clara

11/5/2023 1:41:00 PM | Men's Water Polo

Box Score

By: By Athletic Communications

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The #5 Pepperdine water polo team defeated #17 Santa Clara 11-6 on Sunday afternoon at Sullivan Aquatic Center. The Waves used solid defense to power their way to victory and only surrendered six goals on the day.

BIG WAVES

Junior center Matty Walsh (Laguna Beach, Calif./Santa Margarita Catholic HS) had four goals against the Broncos.
Senior attacker Christian Hosea (San Clemente, Calif./San Clemente HS) posted a hat-trick in the game.
Graduate goalie Antonio Knez (Dubrovnik, Croatia/Gimnazija Dubrovnik/Princeton) had 10 saves on the day while posting a .625 save percentage.

GAME RECAP

Santa Clara scored the first goal of the game with a man up, but Walsh quickly found the back of the net and tied the game 1-1. Adam Csapo (Budapest, Hungary/BME International Secondary School) then scored a goal of his own to put Pepperdine in front 2-1 at the end of the first quarter.

Hosea opened the second quarter with back-to-back goals and increased the Waves' advantage, 4-1. Walsh and Ryan Brosnan (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor HS/UC Santa Barbara) both found the back of the net and pushed Pepperdine's lead to five, 6-1. The Broncos scored a goal late in the half, and the Waves took a 6-2 lead into the break.

Walsh scored back-to-back goals to open the third quarter to add on to Pepperdine's lead, 8-2. After a few scoreless minutes, Curtis Jarvis (Huntington Beach, Calif./Huntington Beach HS) scored his first goal of the game and increased the Waves' advantage, 9-2. Santa Clara found the back of the net, but a late goal by Hosea put Pepperdine back in front by seven at the end of the third period, 10-3.

Brosnan scored his second goal of the game to open the fourth to increase the lead for the Waves, 11-3. The Broncos tried to mount a rally, but it was too late as Pepperdine won the contest 11-6.

Pepperdine was led by Walsh who had four goals in the game, and a total of five Waves scored in the contest.

PEPP 2-4-4-1 — 11
SC 1-1-1-3 — 6

Pepperdine goals: Matty Walsh 4, Christian Hosea 3, Ryan Brosnan 2, Adam Csapo 1, Curtis Jarvis 1.

UP NEXT

The Waves will host #18 Pacific in their final West Coast Conference game of the season on Friday Nov. 10th at 1 p.m. at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool.