LOS ANGELES — Before Saturday's game, the Occidental men's water polo program celebrated the program's seniors
Jake Eulenhoefer,
Zane Derrod,
Lars Schubert,
Jack Davis, and
Danny Miller with a pregame ceremony.
Occidental lost on Saturday morning to La Verne 15-14 on Saturday at De Mandel Aquatics Center. Occidental outshot La Verne 32-30 and scored four times in each of the final two quarters.
Joey Gutierrez opened the scoring for Occidental at 7:31 of the first quarter, but La Verne answered with three straight goals before
Lucas Washburn scored at 1:57 and
Max Sauers added another at 1:15.
Nicholas Karamian scored three times in the second quarter, including goals at 4:33, 3:12 and on a penalty shot at 2:43, as Occidental responded to La Verne scores on either side of that stretch.
Occidental continued to answer in the third quarter, getting goals from
Danny Miller at 7:41, Gutierrez at 6:33 and 1:47, and Sauers at 3:07, before La Verne closed the quarter with back-to-back goals at :32 and :15. The fourth quarter stayed back-and-forth, with Gutierrez scoring at 7:18 and on a penalty shot at 6:53 before
Zane Derrod added goals at 4:58 and 4:29.
La Verne scored the final goal at 2:43 and finished with 15 goals on 30 shots, while Occidental had 14 goals on 32 shots, including three power-play goals and two penalty-shot goals.
Gutierrez scored five goals on 10 shots, added an assist, collected two steals and drew two exclusions. Karamian finished with three goals, one assist and two steals.
Atticus Wahab-Holles recorded two assists and four steals.
Tyler Leung posted eight saves in goal while adding an assist and two steals.
The Tigers are back in action at De Mandel Aquatics Center on Wednesday, November 11th in a match up with the University of Redlands Bulldogs at 7:00pm.
