2016 GCC MEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • NOV. 9, 2016 GOLDEN COAST CONFERENCE MEN’S WATER POLO Nov. 9, 2016 • Release #10 @GOLDENCOASTWP Media Contact: John Shaffer • (310) 338-7643 • [email protected] LOS ANGELES - The inaugural season of men’s water polo within the Golden Coast UPCOMING SCHEDULE Conference has reached the final weekend of the regular season. And with it comes Nov. 9 7:00 PM LMU @ Long Beach State three games key to the final seedings of the upcoming 2016 GCC Men’s Water Polo Nov. 11 7:00 PM Pepperdine @ UCSB * Championships, which will be held Friday, Nov. 18 - Sunday, Nov. 20. 7:00 PM UC Irvine @ Long Beach State * 7:00 PM San Jose State @ Pacific * With their 13-9 win over Pacific, fourth-ranked UC Santa Barbara wrapped up the No. Nov. 12 7:00 PM Pacific @ UC Davis 1 seed in the GCC Championships. Pacific is locked into the No. 2 seed and San Jose State is in at No. 6. But seed three, four and five will be decided on Friday, Nov. 11 2016 GCC Men’s Championships - Nov. 18-20, 2016 - University of the Pacific with the final three GCC games of the season. Friday, November 18 Top two seeds receive a bye Pepperdine and Long Beach State are currently tied for third at 2-2 each in GCC play Game 1 No. 3 vs. No. 6 San Jose State 6:00 pm while UC Irvine is a game back at 1-3. The Waves travel to UCSB to take on Gauchos Game 2 No. 4 vs. No. 5 7:30 pm while Long Beach State will host UC Irvine. The other conference match-up features San Jose State traveling to Pacific. All three games are at 7 pm. The Tigers will also Saturday, November 19 play at UC Davis on Saturday at 7 pm while the 49ers host LMU on Wednesday night. Game 3 Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 4:30 pm Game 4 Winner Game 1 vs. Seed No. 2 Pacific 6:00 pm Leading the Gauchos to the No. 1 seed last weekend was senior Reed Cotterill. He Game 5 Winner Game 2 vs. Seed No. 1 UCSB 7:30 pm helped UCSB run their winning streak to six games with a trio of victories last week- end, including the GCC win over Pacific. He earns the GCC Player of the Week honor Sunday, November 20 with eight goals, four of which came in the conference win. Cotterill also helped Game 6 Loser Game 4 vs. Loser Game 5 (3rd Place) 3:30 pm create opportunities all weekend for the offense to attack by recording three assists Game 7 Winner Gm 4 vs. Winner Gm 5 (Championship) 5:00 pm and three exclusions. LONG BEACH STATE Long Beach State ends its regular season with two home games this week against a GCC WATER POLO • WEEKLY UPDATE • WWW.GCCWATERPOLO.COM 2016 GCC MEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • NOV. 9, 2016 Women’s Collegiate Top-20 Poll 2016 GCC Men’s Water Polo Records (As of Nov. 8, 2016) Week #10 - Nov. 9, 2016 School GCC Pct. Overall Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak Rk Team LW Pts. UCSB 4-0 1.000 17-6 .739 7-0 5-5 5-1 Won 6 1 UCLA 1 100 Pacific 3-1 .750 16-6 .727 2-3 4-1 10-2 Won 1 2 USC 2 95 Long Beach State 2-2 .500 12-8 .600 3-2 2-4 7-2 Won 1 3 California 3 90 Pepperdine 2-2 .500 12-11 .522 3-4 4-4 5-3 Lost 1 4 UC Santa Barbara 5 84 UC Irvine 1-3 .250 9-12 .429 2-5 2-4 5-3 Lost 4 5 University of the Pacific 4 80 San Jose State 0-4 .000 7-18 .280 3-4 1-8 3-6 Lost 4 6 Stanford University 6 72 pair of ranked opponents in No. 17 Loyola Marymount and No. 19 UC Irvine. First up is non-conference op- 7 Long Beach State 7 71 ponent Loyola Marymount on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The No. 17 Lions currently own an 11-14 overall record 8 UC Davis 8 67 but an impressive 4-2 mark in conference play. This will be the second matchup of the season against Loyola 9 (T) Brown University 12 54 Marymount as the Beach won handily back in early September by a score of 11-7. Long Beach State will 9 (T) Pepperdine University 9 54 conclude their 2016 regular season with a conference showdown against rival UC Irvine on Friday at 7 p.m. 11 (T) Harvard University 10 (T) 45 The No. 19 Anteaters are 9-12 on the season with a 1-3 record in GCC play. This will be the first matchup 11 (T) Bucknell University 13 45 against UC Irvine this season. 13 Princeton University 10 (T) 43 14 UC San Diego 14 37 PACIFIC Aleksandar Petrovic has led a balanced attack for the Tigers as the rebounded with an impressive 11-10 win 15 (T) California Baptist University 15 (T) 28 over No. 6 Stanford last weekend. Pacific led 10-6 headed into the fourth and held on for the win behind 15 (T) Pomona-Pitzer Colleges 15 (T) 28 two goals each from Aleksandar Petrovci, Engin Ege Colak, Luis Araya, Devon Thumwood and Ikko Saito. 17 Loyola Marymount 17 21 Derek Clappis also scored for the Tigers, while Alen Osmanovic made six saves with two steals. Pacific has 18 UC Irvine 19 11 won five of the last seven meetings with Stanford dating back to 2013. The Tigers improve to 16-6 overall on 19 (T) George Washington 18 7 the season, while Stanford falls to 12-5. Pacific is back in action against San Jose State in the final regular 19 (T) St. Francis College 20 (T) 7 season home game on Friday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. The Tigers will play at No. 8 UC Davis next Saturday and RV Santa Clara University 20 (T) 6 host the Golden Coast Conference Championships Nov. 18-20. RV Air Force Academy RV 2 RV University of Redlands RV 1 PEPPERDINE Mark Urban helped lead the Waves to a 1-1 week, putting up one of his best games of the season in a con- 2016 GCC PLAYER OF THE WEEK ference win over UC Irvine on Friday. Urban helped the Waves to a 15-7 win over the anteaters, posting two goals and three assists. Urban would also add an assist against California on Sunday. Pepperdine goalie Sept. 7 Ikko Saito Zack Rhodes is currently second in the GCC and ninth in the nation with 176 saves this season. Rhodes Pacific is averaging 8.00 saves per game and has a .562 save percentage. He picked up GCC Player of the Week honors earlier this year after an 18-save performance against Pacific. Sept. 14 Matej Matijevic UC Irvine SAN JOSE STATE Sept. 21 Alen Osmanovic The Spartans take on Golden Coast Conference foe, #4-Pacific, in Stockton, Calif. this Friday, November 11 Pacific in their last regular season match. Sept. 29 Nolan McConnell Long Beach St. UC IRVINE UC Irvine, 9-12 overall and 1-3 in the Golden Coast Conference, ends regular-season play at Long Beach Oct. 5 Zach Rhodes State Friday night at 7:00 in GCC action before competing in the conference tournament at Stockton Nov. Pepperdine 18-20. The Anteaters fell on the road to Pepperdine, 8-7, last Friday and lost to California, 9-6, in UCI’s home finale Saturday. Junior goalie Matej Matijevic had 25 saves in the two games and has 280 on the season. Oct. 12 Reed Cotterill UC Santa Barbara Sophomore Jack Trush leads the Anteaters in scoring with 38 goals followed by junior Ryan Warde with 35. Freshmen Bryant Joudrie and Ian Fleenor have scored 25 goals apiece on the season. Oct. 19 Tim Reeves Pacific UC SANTA BARBARA Currently riding a season-best six-game win streak, No. 4 UCSB (16-6, 4-0) will host No. 9 Pepperdine this Oct. 26 Liam Lenihan UC Santa Barbara Friday night at Campus Pool on Senior Night. After saving some of their best performances for the second half of the season, the Gauchos have already clinched the top seed in the GCC as they head into their Nov. 2 Dylan Becker regular season finale. Since the beginning of its current win streak, UCSB has moved up three spots in the Pacific rankings from No. 7 to No. 4. It is the first time since 1990 that the Gauchos have been ranked in the top four. Through its last ten outings, Santa Barbara has lost just once, to No. 2 USC on the road. Nov. 9 Reed Cotterill UC Santa Barbara GCC WATER POLO • WEEKLY UPDATE • WWW.GCCWATERPOLO.COM 2016 GCC MEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY UPDATE • NOV. 9, 2016 LONG BEACH STATE (12-8, 2-2 GCC) PACIFIC (16-6, 3-1 GCC) Day Time Opponent Score Record Day Time Opponent Score Record Sept. 3 at UC San Diego Triton Invitational - La Jolla, CA Sept. 3-4 at Bruno Classic - Providence, RI Sept. 3 9:15 AM vs. Pomona-Pitzer W-9-5 1-0 Sept. 3 7:15 AM vs. (20) St. Francis W-13-4 1-0 1:45 PM vs. (RV) LMU W-11-7 2-0 12:00 PM vs. (16) John Hopkins W-19-3 2-0 Sept.