Pictured Above: Sophomore Matthew Miller who registered a hat trick in the triumph over MIT

Providence, RI – The Wagner College men's water polo team earned its first victory of the 2017 season with a 15-10 triumph over Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). With the victory, the Green & White are now 1-3 on the season after falling to No. 10 Harvard 14-9 in the weekend finale of the Brown Bruno Classic.
 
Wagner 15, MIT 10
After a heartbreaking 14-13 loss to MIT at the 2016 Bruno Classic, the second-year men's water polo program breezed past MIT in the second meeting between the two squads. Three Seahawks registered hat tricks throughout the contest as the Green & White defeated the Engineers by a count of 15-10.
 
Freshman driver Jasmin Kolasinac (Belgrade, Serbia / King's College) opened the match-up with back-to-back tallies to give the Seahawks an early 2-0 lead. The rookie would go on to score four more times throughout the contest, tying sophomore driver Oscar Nomura (Irvine, CA / Irvine) for the most goals scored in a single game (6). Nomura previously tallied six markers in a 13-11 home loss to eventual 2016 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) Champions, Bucknell on October 1, 2016.
 
The Engineers ended the opening stanza with a 3-0 run, ignited by freshman Evan Kim as the Green & White trailed 3-2 at the buzzer.
 
Junior goalie Cameron Woldt (San Diego, CA / Serra High School [San Diego Mesa College]), who recorded ten saves throughout the tilt, held MIT's offense scoreless in the second quarter as the Seahawks fired three consecutive goals. Two of the three tallies came from Kolasinac with Nomura reaching the back of the cage on the third one.
 
Coming out of intermission with a 5-3 advantage, the third quarter was a back-and-forth battle. However, Wagner outscored the Maroon & Black 6-4 behind two goals apiece from senior utility Ciaran Wolohan (Manly, Australia / St. Aloysius College [Golden West College]), sophomore driver Matthew Miller (San Ramon, CA / California High), and Kolasinac.
 
The Green & White were able to hold off the Engineers in the final eight minutes, outscoring its opponent 4-3. Wolohan and Miller each completed hat tricks, while junior transfer Teo Dadic (Dubrovnik, Croatia / Gimnazija Dubrovnik [Long Beach City College]) added his first tally of the day.
 
Wagner 9, Harvard 14
Once again, freshman driver Jasmin Kolasinac led the Seahawks with four goals and four steals as the second-year program fell 14-9 in their weekend finale. Kolasinac scored the lone tally in the opening stanza as No. 10 Harvard took an early 5-1 lead.
 
The Green & White bounced back to outscore the Crimson 2-1 in the second quarter as Kolasinac and sophomore driver Oscar Nomura teamed up, each reaching the back of the net once as Wagner trailed 6-3 entering intermission.
 
The third stanza was an even match-up with each team netting three markers apiece. After back-to-back tallies from Harvard, Kolasinac scored off an assist from sophomore driver Aaron Leighton (Lake Forest, CA / El Toro). Despite two consecutive goals from the Seahawks to end the third quarter, the Crimson entered the final eight minutes of play with a 9-6 advantage.
 
Harvard ended the contest, outscoring the Green & White 5-3 in the final eight minutes of play. However, freshman 2M-guard András Bimbó-Szuhai (Oradea, Romania / Ady Endre Liceum) fired the first goal of his collegiate career on a power play opportunity with 2:32 remaining on the clock.
 
Up Next for Men's Water Polo
Wagner makes the short trip to Princeton, NJ September 9-10 for a three-game stint at the Princeton Invite. The Seahawks will face its first league rival, Navy at 8:45 am on Saturday before taking on Chapman University and Brown University on Sunday at 8:45 am and 3:45 pm, respectively. 

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