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Mar 2, 2008

Women's Water Polo Plays Four at Slugfest


Karley Perine '08 and Caroline Galvin '08 combined for 13 goals in four games, but Whittier College left the UC-Santa Cruz Slugfest without a win on March 1 and 2.  The Poets lost 10-2 to the hosts in their first game of the weekend and 10-5 to Cal State, East Bay in game two.  On day two, they lost 14-5 to Santa Clara followed by a tough 10-9 loss to Cal State, Monterey Bay in the final game of the tournament.

Galvin scored both Poet goals in the loss to Santa Cruz.  Both goals came in the third quarter when Whittier already trailed 8-0.  The Banana Slugs added a pair of goals in the final quarter for the 10-2 victory.

Perine led the Poets against East Bay with four of the five Poet goals.  Catherine Gouge '08 scored the other goal.  Whittier fell behind early, trailing 3-0 at the end of the first quarter.  Goalie Ashley Papenbrock '08 and the Poet defense held strong in the second, not allowing a goal, but the offense couldn't capitalize, scoring just once to cut the lead to 3-1 at halftime.  East Bay broke the game open in the third with four more goals and didn't look back on their way to the 10-5 win.

The Poets allowed three quick goals to Santa Cruz on day two, but Galvin came back with two of her three goals in the game to make the score 3-2 at the end of one.  But Division I Santa Cruz opened a six-goal lead in the second quarter and the Poets could not recover.  Xenia Castillo '11 scored twice for the Poets in the loss.

The weekend finale was a battle with Monterey Bay that went down to the wire.  Galvin, Castillo, Gouge and Perine all scored twice in the game.  Lily Broussard '11 also pitched in with a goal.  Once again, the Poets trailed early on, giving Monterey Bay a 2-0 lead in the first quarter.  Both teams put up four goals in the second to make the score 6-4 at the break.  The third quarter proved to be the game-breaker for the Poets, as they lost the quarter 4-3.  They didn't go down without a fight as Perine scored with just under two minutes left in the game to cut the lead to two goals.  Galvin scored with 34 seconds left to get the Poets within one, but the were unable to find the equalizer and Monterey Bay escaped with the one-goal victory.

The Poets are in action again on March 15 and 16 when they take part in the Claremont Convergence Tournament.