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Women's Water Polo

Oxy Closes Regular Season With Win at Caltech

PASADENA — Freshmen Mirei Yasuda and Zulema Iboa-Garcia each scored a pair of goals — the first of their careers — as the Occidental women's water polo team beat Caltech 16-2 in the team's regular-season finale on Saturday.

Fellow freshmen Amanda Akiyama, Katie Beale and Kyla Houck also logged their first career scores.

A total of 14 different Tigers scored in the contest and Oxy set a school record with 51 shots on goal.

Abby Appel had a team-high three assists for Oxy.

Defensively, freshmen goalies Anna De Groot and Abby Bromberg split the second half in the net, recording four and three saves, respectively.

"It's the first time this season that we've been able to get our freshmen players some significant minutes in a college game and they responded very well," Oxy head coach Larry Zubrin said. "It was nice to see them show aggressiveness on the offensive end of the pool as that's been a weak spot for us most of the season."

With the win, Oxy finishes the SCIAC regular season at 4-4.

The Tigers begin the conference tournament on April 25 against Whittier College at 4 p.m.

BOX SCORE          1st     2nd     3rd     4th     TOTAL

Occidental            3        4         6         3         16

CIT                       1        0         0         1          2

OXY STATS:

Goals/Attempts: Yasuda-2/5, Iboa-Garcia-2/6, Kosin-2/5, DesCombes-1/2, Albino-1/2, Akiyama-1/3, Mclafferty-1/6, Wheeler-1/1, Gill-2/6, Zurcher-1/2, Beal-1/1, Houck-1/1, Shyba-0/2, Gibbs-0/3, Appel-0/6

Assists: Wheeler-3, Appel-3, Albino-2, Munoz-1, McClafferty-1, Gill-1, Zurcher-1, Beal-1, Yasuda-1, Iboa-Garcia-1

Steals: Albino-6, Appel-2, Shyba-1, Akiyama-2, McClafferty-4, Wheeler-3, Zurcher-1, Gibbs-1, Iboa-Garcia-1

Turn-Overs: Kosin-1, McClafferty-1, Gill-1, Beal-1

Exclusions/Drawn: Iboa-Garcia-2/1, Houck-1, Zurcher-1, Beal-1, Appel-1, Kosin-1

Saves/Goals Allowed: Perez-2/1, Munoz-2/0, DeGroot-4/0, Bromberg-3/1

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Players Mentioned

Amanda Akiyama

#7 Amanda Akiyama

ATT
5' 7"
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Abby Appel

#3 Abby Appel

ATT
5' 6"
First Year
Katie Beale

#12 Katie Beale

CEN
5' 8"
First Year
Abby Bromberg

#1 Abby Bromberg

GK
5' 11"
First Year
Anna De Groot

#1 Anna De Groot

GK
5' 11"
First Year
Kyla Houck

#19 Kyla Houck

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5' 6"
First Year
Zulema Iboa-Garcia

#14 Zulema Iboa-Garcia

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5' 5"
First Year
Mirei Yasuda

#16 Mirei Yasuda

ATT
5' 3"
First Year

Players Mentioned

Amanda Akiyama

#7 Amanda Akiyama

5' 7"
First Year
ATT
Abby Appel

#3 Abby Appel

5' 6"
First Year
ATT
Katie Beale

#12 Katie Beale

5' 8"
First Year
CEN
Abby Bromberg

#1 Abby Bromberg

5' 11"
First Year
GK
Anna De Groot

#1 Anna De Groot

5' 11"
First Year
GK
Kyla Houck

#19 Kyla Houck

5' 6"
First Year
ATT
Zulema Iboa-Garcia

#14 Zulema Iboa-Garcia

5' 5"
First Year
ATT
Mirei Yasuda

#16 Mirei Yasuda

5' 3"
First Year
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