LA JOLLA, Calif. – On the final day of the 2022 Triton Invitational at the Canyonview Aquatics Center on the campus of UC San Diego, the San Diego State water polo lost a pair of one goal games, 12-11 to No. 20 Loyola Marymount and 11-10 to CSUN.
No. 20 Loyola Marymount 12, No. 19 San Diego State 11
With the game tied at 11-11, LMU got a goal with 30 seconds to play to defeat the Aztecs 12-11 in each team's first game of the day.
SDSU (1-4) got off to a good start holding a 2-1 advantage after 8 minutes. The team's goals by Rose Kanemy, at 1:58 to play, and Laurene Padilla, with 53 seconds left after the Lions got the initial goal of the game at the 4:33 mark.
Kendall Houck scored the Aztecs lone goal of the second period, but LMU scored three times and took a 4-3 lead into the intermission.
San Diego State got the opening goal of the third quarter, the second of the game from Padilla, to even the score at 4-4.
LMU then went on a 3-0 run to take a 7-4 lead. SDSU answered with a goal from Spencer Samuel, but the Lions got it back and with less than a minute to play in the third were down 8-5. Houck scored her second goal of the match with 54 seconds to go and Delaney Binette drew the Aztecs to within a goal with her first of the day as the buzzer sounded to send it to the final eight minutes with San Diego State down 8-7.
Opening the fourth quarter, Sydney Hurst and Samantha Loughlin scored in the first minute and three seconds to give the Aztecs a 9-8 advantage. The teams then traded goals, SDSU's from Padilla, to make it a 10-9 score with 3:01 to play. LMU then got back-to-back strikes to go back in front 11-10. Karli Canale got the equalizer with 1:12 to go, but the Lions scored with 30 seconds to play to take the 12-11 victory.
San Diego State: 2-1-4-4 - 11
Loyola Marymount: 1-3-4-4 - 12
San Diego State Goals: Padilla (3), Houck (2), Binette (1), Canale (1), Kanemy (1), Samuel (1), Hurst (1), Loughlin (1)
Loyola Marymount Goals: Williams (3), Arino Ruiz (2), Snelgar (2), Akritidou (1), Barajas (1), Seletopoulou (1)
CSUN 11, No. 19 San Diego State 10
Faith Cerussi struck four times, but a slow start doomed the Aztecs in an 11-10 loss to CSUN.
The Matadors scored four unanswered goals in the first quarter and added two more to open the second to lead 6-0 before the Aztecs (1-5) got on the board.
When SDSU finally broke through, it was on a Katie Ratcliff goal with 5:37 to go before the intermission. CSUN answered Ratcliff's tally, but the Aztecs got the final two strikes of the period, at 1:26 from Rose Kanemy and 52 seconds from Kendall Houck to make the score 7-3 at the break.
CSUN scored to open the third stanza to make it 8-3 before San Diego State's offense took over. SDSU scored the next four goals. Adrina Daniel got the Aztecs started at the 5:30 mark and Houck followed that goal with her second of the game, just 30 second later. Cerussi picked up back-to-back strikes at 3:52 and 2:21 to draw the Scarlet and Black to within a goal at 8-7, but a late tally from CSUN sent the game to the final quarter with the score 9-7.
Cerussi drew SDSU to within a goal at 9-8 in the first minute of the fourth, but CSUN got the next two strikes to push its lead to 11-8. Goldstein scored with 2:52 to play and Cerussi made it a one goal game with 56 second left, but the Aztecs couldn't get the equalizer and lost 11-10.
San Diego State: 0-3-4-3 - 10
CSUN: 4-3-2-2 - 11
San Diego State Goals: Cerussi (4), Houck (2), Daniel (1), Goldstein (1), Kanemy (1), Ratcliff (1)
CSUN Goals: Jansen (4), Telek (4), Pal (2), Sandhagen (1)
No. 19 Aztecs Drop Two One-Goal Games At Triton Invite
