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sports
Beach splits two
contests
By Ben Dimapindan
On-line Forty-Niner
The top-ranked
Stanford Cardinal felt right at home at the 49er Campus Pool
Saturday during its 11-6 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
victory over the eighth-ranked Long Beach State men's water
polo team.
The Cardinal (11-0, 4-0) had most things go its way, while
The Beach (6-5, 1-3) were literally inches away - as both
distant and close-range shots clanged off the crossbar or
barely veered wide - from pulling off a huge upset in front
of a packed crowd of 600.
"I thought we matched up well," LBSU Head Coach
Rick Azevedo said. "We did a lot of very good things
out there. They had three goals - two by Tony [Azevedo] -
when we had players all over them and they were still able
to pull a goal out. So, [the score] was a lot closer than
it appears."
On offense, junior Brian Darrow and freshman Tony Azevedo,
who is the son of LBSU Head Coach Rick Azevedo, led Stanford
with three goals each.
Two of Tony Azevedo's goals awed the large crowd as he froze
his defender with a quick move inside and quickly threw in
one goal and scored another by knifing in between two LBSU
defenders to fire in a close shot.
For The Beach, after going down, 7-3, at the end of the first
half, senior Chris Segesman and junior Aaron Holloway each
hammered in a pair goals to close in on Stanford.
However, the rally fell short as the 49ers' shots barely missed
the goal and could only narrow the gap to 11-6.
In a nonconference road game against UC San Diego Friday,
LBSU won, 12-11, in a thrilling double-overtime marathon.
The score was even at 9-9 at the end of regulation, thanks
in large part to a game-high five goals from Segesman.
After the first overtime period ended scoreless, the score
was deadlocked at 11-11 at the close of the second overtime.
The weary teams marched forward onto sudden death - where
the next to score is declared the winner.
After a scoreless first sudden-death period, the 49ers played
on to the final sudden death period, where Holloway came up
big with a clutch goal to seal the 12-11 victory for LBSU.
"Every time, up and down the pool, both teams were dead
tired, you could feel it," Holloway said. "Pat Logan
gave me a good pass and I was able to just squeeze it in the
goal. I shot it, the defender hit my arm and it just trickled
into the net."
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