Males’s Water Polo – Tue, Nov. 30, 2021
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DAVIS, Calif. — The No. 7 UC Davis males’s water polo workforce makes its eighth postseason look on Thursday (Dec. 2), heading to the Speiker Aquatics Middle on the campus of UCLA for the opening rounds of the 2021 NCAA Nationwide Collegiate Water Polo Championship. The Aggies, champions of the Western Water Polo Affiliation for the sixth time in this system’s historical past, tackle No. 4 Lengthy Seashore State, champions of the Golden Coast Convention, at Midday in Los Angeles.
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UC DAVIS AT 2021 NATIONAL COLLEGIATE WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIP
Hosted by UCLA // Speiker Aquatics Middle // Los Angeles, Calif.
OPENING ROUND (Thursday, Dec. 2)
#7 UC Davis (18-8) vs. #4 Lengthy Seashore State (22-5), Midday
#10 Princeton (26-7) vs. #1 UCLA (19-3), 3 p.m.
SEMIFINALS (Saturday, Dec. 4)
UC Davis/Lengthy Seashore State vs. #1 USC (17-2), 2 p.m.
Princeton/UCLA vs. #3 California (20-4), 4 p.m.
CHAMPIONSHIP (Sunday, Dec. 5)
Semifinal winners, 2 p.m.
WE’LL DO IT LIVE: For these followers unable to make the trek to Los Angeles this week, each of Thursday’s opening-round matches might be streamed dwell at UCLABruins.com by way of the next hyperlink: http://pac-12.com/dwell/ucla-2, with dwell scoring out there by way of The FOSH at https://www.thefosh.internet/dwell/11919.
UC DAVIS IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT: UC Davis is making its eighth all-time postseason look within the Nationwide Collegiate Championship, beforehand incomes berths in 1974, 1975, 1996, 1997, 2016, 2017, and 2019… The Aggies might be making their second straight look within the nationwide match after opting out of the 2020-21 season because of the pandemic… UC Davis is a mixed 4-9 within the NCAA Event, ending third nationally in 1996, fourth in 1997, and fifth in 1974… The Aggies fell to Pepperdine in a back-and-forth, 15-12, resolution in favor of the Waves in 2019 in a gap spherical match in Stockton, Calif… This yr marks the first-ever assembly between UC Davis and Lengthy Seashore State within the postseason.
UC DAVIS AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
1974: CS Fullerton (L, 7-4); Air Power (W, 9-2); Stanford (W, 4-3)
1975: UC Irvine (L, 19-4); Arizona (L, 9-8); Military (W, 20-3)
1996: UCLA (L, 18-6); UMass (W, 11-8)
1997: Pepperdine (L, 13-8); Queens (NY) (L, 5-3)
2016: Harvard (L, 16-15 ot)
2017: Pacific (L, 13-12)
2019: Pepperdine (L, 15-12)
IN THE RANKINGS: UC Davis made a soar of 4 spots in final week’s Collegiate Water Polo Affiliation rankings to No. 7 within the nation, up from No. 11 after claiming the WWPA Event title… This week’s occasion options 4 of the top-five groups within the nation: No. 1 USC, No. 1 UCLA, No. 3 California, and No. 4 Lengthy Seashore State, in addition to No. 10 Princeton, who defeated Fordham, 17-8, in its opening-round match on Nov. 27 to earn a date with the host Bruins.
ABOUT LONG BEACH STATE: The Seashore enters the postseason with a 22-5 total report and an ideal 5-0 mark in Golden Coast Convention play, successful the league match with triumphs over San Jose State (8-4) and Pacific (13-9) to earn the convention’s automated postseason berth… Lengthy Seashore State enters the NCAAs with six consecutive wins relationship again to a 13-9 loss by the hands of USC again on Oct. 17 at house… Junior attacker Rafael Actual Vergara leads the workforce with 66 targets, together with a season-high six towards Pepperdine on Nov. 6, whereas Theodoros Pateros and Matt Morris have discovered the again of the cage 40 instances apiece this yr… Junior goalkeeper Andrej Bosanac has posted 231 saves this yr, together with a pair of 13-save performances.
SERIES NOTES: In line with information relationship again to the 2005 season, Lengthy Seashore State leads the all-time sequence with UC Davis by a rely of 16-1, together with successful the final 12 conferences… The Aggies and The Seashore have squared off as soon as already this season, with Lengthy Seashore State posting an 18-10 victory over UC Davis within the ultimate match for each groups on the MPSF Invitational hosted by California in Berkeley again on Sept. 26… This would be the eleventh all-time assembly in impartial waters between the 2 groups, with the Seashore successful all 10 earlier conferences… The Aggies’ lone win within the sequence got here on the highway again in 2007, with Nick Arrigo netting the game-winner with one second remaining in regulation for a 9-8 victory.
AGGIES CLAIM WWPA TITLE: UC Davis claimed its sixth WWPA title in program historical past in house waters again on Nov. 22, posting wins over Biola (21-5), Loyola Marymount (8-5), and reigning champion California Baptist (14-9), en path to the crown. This yr’s title joins championships in 1996, 1997, 2016, 2017, and 2019, because the Aggies outscored opponents by a 43-19 rely on their method to the title. Full championship match recap: https://ucdavisaggies.com/information/2021/11/21/mens-water-polo-aggies-claim-sixth-wwpa-title.aspx.
ALL-WWPA HONORS: Senior Nir Gross was named the WWPA Participant of the 12 months and picked up an all-conference first workforce nod, whereas Logan Anderson, Aaron Wilson, and Aleix Aznar Beltran, had been additionally named to the All-WWPA squad, because the league workplace introduced it postseason honor roll on Nov. 17. Gross turned the sixth UC Davis participant to be named the WWPA’s prime participant and the primary since Ido Goldschmidt gained his second award in 2018. Gross joins Goldschmidt (2016 and 2018), Cory Laidig (2017), Sean Seize (2015), Bernie Rogers (2013), Mike McGee (2007), as UC Davis student-athletes to earn WWPA Participant of the 12 months honors. Along with Gross’ award, Anderson was named to the All-WWPA second workforce, whereas Wilson and Aznar Beltran picked up honorable point out honors. Full story: https://ucdavisaggies.com/information/2021/11/17/mens-water-polo-gross-named-wwpa-player-of-the-year.aspx.
AND THE AWARDS JUST KEEP ON COMIN’: Along with the all-league honors bestowed upon the Aggies on the finish of the common season, the identical UC Davis quartet additionally picked up WWPA All-Event awards following their workforce’s triumph. Wilson was named the match MVP after ending with 27 saves, seven steals, a 6.40 targets towards common, and a .628 save proportion, on the weekend, becoming a member of former UC Davis greats Spencer Creed, Spencer Galli, and Jonah Addington, as winners of that award. Gross (six targets, one help, six drawn exclusions, and 14 pictures) and Anderson (seven targets, three assists, 13 pictures, 4 steals) had been every named to the all-tournament first workforce, whereas Aznar Beltran (two targets, 5 assists, 9 pictures, 4 steals) earned second-team honors.
AGGIE SKIP SHOTS…
• After posting an 18-8 total report and a 7-1 mark in WWPA play throughout the common season, UC Davis enters the postseason on a three-match successful streak and has posted wins in 10 of its ultimate 13 contests.
• The 18 wins had been probably the most for the reason that 2018 workforce completed 18-8 total.
• The 2021 marketing campaign marked the sixth consecutive successful season for the Aggies relationship again to 2015, successful 18-or-more matches in 5 of these years.
• This yr’s WWPA Event title was the college’s fourth within the final six years.
• The Aggies had gained 14 consecutive WWPA matches till falling to UC San Diego of their convention finale on Nov. 6.
• Youngster and Meisel Households Director of Males’s Water Polo Daniel Leyson is 145-74 (.662) total and 48-4 (.923) in WWPA play in 9 years on the helm of the UC Davis program, posting undefeated convention information 5 instances in that stretch.
• Eight gamers completed with not less than 20 targets on the season — the third consecutive yr that the Aggies have had not less than that many attain the 20-goal plateau and only one shy of the 2019 workforce’s whole of 9.
• The UC Davis protection has held opponents to fewer than 10 targets 15 instances this yr.
• In the meantime, the Aggies averaged 13.50 targets per match in 2021, limiting opponents to simply 9.23 per recreation throughout the season.
• The Aggies opened the yr with an ideal 7-0 report — the perfect begin for this system since yearly game-by-game information arre out there starting with the 2002 season.
• The seven straight wins had been additionally tied for the fifth-longest successful streak in that very same span and probably the most consecutive wins since UC Davis gained 9 straight getting into the 2019 NCAA Event.
• Gross leads the workforce with 54 targets getting into the postseason, simply eight shy of breaking into this system’s single-season prime 10 checklist (Ido Goldschmidt is tenth with 62 targets in 2017).
• Together with Gross’s 54 targets, Aleix Aznar Beltran’s 53 scores give UC Davis a pair of 50-goal scorers in the identical season for the primary time since 2014 when Sean Seize completed with 64 targets and Chris Richardson added 58 extra scores.
• Logan Anderson’s 39 assists are probably the most by an Aggie since Yurii Hanley completed with 41 in 2019, and rank tied for seventh on the college’s single-season checklist together with Jack Stafford (2018) and Ido Goldschmidt (2015).
• Anderson’s help whole is simply 5 shy of the all-time report held by Grant Muenter, who completed with 44 helpers in 2018.
• Anderson additionally has 81 whole factors — including 42 targets to his 39 assists — which ranks tenth on the college’s single-season checklist relationship again to 2004, trailing Aaron Salit (2011) and Adam Bennett (2008) by simply three factors for eighth place.
• Aznar Beltran’s 78 factors are simply two again of Anderson’s whole for a spot within the prime 10.
• Aznar Beltran additionally ranks tied for seventh (since 2004) on the college’s single-season pictures checklist with 137, matching Patrick Jacobson’s 2005 whole.
• Aaron Wilson’s 41 steals this yr are tied for eighth on the all-time single-season checklist together with Jonah Addington (2019) and Patrick Jacobson (2004), and simply three shy of a tie for sixth.
• Anderson’s 36 steals are tied for sixth amongst non-goalkeepers on that very same single-season checklist
• Gross’ 75 drawn exclusions are probably the most in a single season at school historical past relationship again to 2004, breaking Jack Stafford’s mark of 73 in 2018.
• Anderson’s 18 discipline blocks are tied for the second-most in a season at school historical past, simply 5 shy of Matt Vowell’s 2012 whole of 23.
• Gross led the workforce with 9 hat methods on the season, adopted by Anderson with seven, and Aznar Beltran with six. As a workforce, UC Davis collected 41 whole hat methods from 10 completely different gamers.
• Gross and Aznar Beltran had been the best Aggies on the ability play, main the way in which with 16 targets apiece with a person benefit. The previous shot .571 on 6-on-5 opportunites, with the latter scoring on half his energy play makes an attempt.
ON THE CAREER LISTS…
• Gross’ 147 profession targets rank him ninth on the all-time checklist, 14 behind Aaron Salit (2007-08, 2010-11) for eighth.
• Gross’ 168 profession factors rank him simply three behind Salit for tenth on the all-time checklist (relationship again to 2004).
• Gross’ 300 pictures rank him seventh on the all-time checklist, simply 5 again of Nick Arrigo (2004-07) for sixth and eight behind Trevor Allen (2010-13) for fifth.
• Gross’ 145 drawn exclusions rank him third on the all-time checklist, simply three again of Jack Stafford (2017-19) for second and 18 behind Teddy Nicholson’s (2010, 2012-14) report.
