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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