49ers fifth at tourney
By Tom Harshbarger
Daily Forty-Niner
The Long Beach State menís water polo team
went 3-1 at the Northern California Tournament at Stanford over the weekend,
facing four Top 10 teams and finishing in fifth place.
Third-ranked USC defeated No. 1 UCLA to
claim the tournament championship.
The 49ers' next game will be against UC
Irvine Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at Belmont Plaza Pool.
"We had a couple of must-wins against Pacific
and San Diego on Sunday," 49er Head Coach Ricardo Azevedo said. "We had
some guys sick, some guys playing with a fever, and I'm proud of them."
In their final game Sunday afternoon, the
ninth-ranked 49ers (8-8, 1-3) edged No. 10-ranked UC San Diego, 5-4.
LBSU fell behind 2-3 in the first quarter,
but scored two in the second to take a 4-3 lead.
The Tritons scored one more in the third,
but the 49ers added one in the fourth to go ahead for good.
Five different 49ers scored in the game,
while sophomore Jonathan Samuels scored three goals for the Tritons.
In the Sunday morning contest, the 49ers
downed No. 5 Pacific, 10-8. LBSU took a 3-1 lead in the first quarter and
never trailed. The Tigers scored four in the fourth quarter, but came up
short at the end.
Senior Shane Lindstrom scored five goals
for the 49ers, a career high.
The 49ers met No. 1 UCLA in their second
game of the tournament Saturday afternoon, losing 11-5. LBSU posted a 3-1
lead in the first quarter, but the Bruins scored five points in the second
and took the lead for good.
"Against UCLA we had a really good game,
although the score doesnít reflect it," Azevedo said.
LBSU senior Corey Dolley scored three goals
in the losing effort, while Bruinsí juniors Sean Kern and Adam Wright scored
three each.
Azevedo said, "we just ran out of bodies.
We had a lot of guys sick and injured."
LBSU dispatched No. 8 Pepperdine ,13-8
, in the tournament opener, going up four goals to two in the first quarter
and never looking back.
Dolley once again led the 49ers with three
goals, including a two-pointer. The Wavesí Peter Joseph and Greg Lonzo
scored three each.
On Friday, the 49ers traveled to Berkeley
to take on No. 4 UC-Berkeley in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation contest.
The Golden Bears promptly handed LBSU its worst loss of the season to date,
10-2.
Cal outscored the 49ers, 6-0, in the first
half. The 49ers scored their only goals in the third period, both by Dolley.
The 49ers had not lost by more than two
points prior to this game. The 49ers faced the Golden Bears once previously
this season in the Southern California Tournament, which resulted in a
5-4 loss to California.
Notes: Azevedo said charges
against 49er Patrick Cochran, stemming from a Sept. 23 party that grew
into a riot, were going to be dropped.
However, Laura White, a representative
of the Long Beach City Prosecutorís office, said neither charge has been
dropped. |
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