MPSF Women's Water Polo Results, Mar. 11
March 11, 2017 *UCLA 17, CSU Bakersfield 5
Recap by UCLA
LOS ANGELES -- The No. 3 UCLA women's water polo team opened its MPSF home schedule with a 17-5 win over No. 23 CSU Bakersfield, 17-5, at Spieker Aquatics Center. Ten Bruins scored goals in the win, led by Maddie Musselman's four. Rachel Fattal scored three, including the 200th of her career. After the Roadrunners' Cassandra Ream was whistled for an exclusion at 6:48 of the first frame, the Bruins' Kodi Hill capitalized on the six-on-five opportunity to net the first goal of the contest. Fattal and Musselman followed one apiece before the quarter reached its midway point. Fattal added another shortly thereafter to make the score 4-0. The Roadrunners' Ashley Paz scored the visitors' first of the game to cut their deficit to 4-1, but the Bruins' Devin Grab quickly answered with under a minute to go to give UCLA (13-1, 2-0) a 5-1 lead after one. Musselman scored her second goal of the contest to open scoring in the second. Fattal followed with a six-on-five goal to finish her hat trick and give the attacked 200 goals for her career. She became the fourth Bruin all-time to reach the mark. The Bruins went on to score a goal a minute, as Musselman, Mackenzie Barr, Alexa Tielmann, Lizette Rozeboom and Tielmann, again, rattled off goals to give UCLA a 12-1 halftime lead. Once again, Musselman opened a quarter with a score, as she completed her four-goal effort 25 seconds into the second half. Alys Williams followed with her 27th of the season, and Devin Grab added her second of day to put the Bruin lead at a game-high 14 goals for the first time of the day. CSUB (9-10, 0-3) cut into the lead with a goal by Jada Helberg at 1:00 of the third, but Aubrie Monahan answered to send the Bruins to the fourth with a 16-2 lead. Hannah Storum entered the game in goal as the Bruins went to the fourth, as Carlee Kapana departed with six saves. Storum tallied three of her own and relinquished three Roadrunner scores, but the UCLA lead was too great. Nicole Reynolds added one more goal for good measure, as the Bruins secured the 17-5 victory. UCLA will return to the pool on Saturday, March 18, when they host the No. 4 California Golden Bears in another MPSF showdown. The Bruins previously defeated Cal in the third-place game of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational, 12-11 (Feb. 26). The meeting at Spieker Aquatics Center will begin at 11:30 a.m. and be broadcast on Pac-12 Networks.
*Stanford 9, ARIZONA STATE 3...Stanford 21 La Verne 3 (at ASU)
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San Jose State 4, Indiana 3 (at SDSU)...SAN DIEGO STATE 8, San Jose State 7
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CALIFORNIA 14, Harvard 7
Recap by Cal
BERKELEY - Junior Dora Antal scored four goals and her Hungarian Olympic teammate Anna Illes added three as the No. 4 Cal women's water polo team doubled up No. 20 Harvard 14-7 on Saturday at Spieker Aquatics Complex.
Senior Stephanie Mutafyan and junior Carla Carrega each added two goals for the Bears (13-3), who finished off their nonconference schedule before visiting No. 3 UCLA next Saturday in a pivotal MPSF showdown.
Antal's offensive output gives her 39 for the season and 183 for her All-American career. She needs seven more goals to move into fourth place on Cal's all-time scoring list.
While it took awhile for the Bears to find a rhythm on offense, their defense completely stymied Harvard for most of the first half. The Crimson didn't get on the scoreboard until Michelle Martinelli scored the first of her four goals with 1:44 to play before halftime. By that time, Cal had established an 8-0 lead.
Senior Madeline Trabucco made eight saves while playing just the first half for the Bears. She now has 514 for her career, moving her closer to fourth place on Cal's all-time list. Lauren Dennis sits in fourth place with 537.
The Bears, who opened MPSF play with a 16-5 win over CSU Bakersfield on Feb. 11, resume conference play next Saturday at UCLA in a match that will be televised by the Pac-12 Networks at 11:30 a.m. UCLA defeated Cal 12-11 in the Third Place Game of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational at UC Irvine on Feb. 26.