College women’s water polo: Anteaters hold off OCC

UCI AQUATICS COMPLEX - The Orange Coast College women’s water polo

team’s 28-game winning streak ended at the hands of an NCAA Division I

team, UC Irvine, Saturday. The Anteaters hosted their one-day Fall

Tournament and dealt the Pirates an 8-6 loss, though UCI did not attain

victory easily.

Orange Coast answered an 8-4 deficit and came within one, before an

official’s ruling subtracted goals that were illegally scored.

An OCC player had received three ejections and received a major. That

meant she could not reenter. But she unknowingly did and when the

officials took notice they took away three goals and OCC went from an 8-7

lead to 8-4 with three minutes left in the game.

UCI Coach Julie Swail said the Pirates gave her team its greatest

competition of the tournament.

Before losing to UCI, Coast defeated UC San Diego, 6-3, as Neisha

Hoagland and Devon Wright scored two goals each.

UCI ended the tournament with a 9-7 win over Cal Baptist and a 3-0-1

record. The Anteaters tied, 6-6, with Cal State Bakersfield, and scored

victories over UCSD (11-6) and San Diego Mesa (13-5).

The six-team tournament featured a round robin format and three

community colleges, including San Diego Mesa, Long Beach City and OCC,

the top-ranked team in the state. Pirates assistant coach Mike Giles said

the loss will be on OCC’s record, but will not count against the team’s

state ranking.

UC IRVINE FALL TOURNAMENT

Round-robin format

Orange Coast 6, UC San Diego 3

OCC 0 1 4 1 - 6

UCSD 0 1 2 0 - 3

OCC - Hoagland 2, Wright 2, Montalvo 1, Sonnenfeld 1. Saves - Deyden

7.

UCSD - Smith 1, Tucker 1, Moss 1. Saves - Cornford 7, Price 6.

UC Irvine 8, Orange Coast 6

OCC 2 2 0 2 - 6

UCI 3 2 2 1 - 8

OCC - Wright 2, McDonald 2, Hoagland 1, Montalvo 1. Saves - Deyden 6.