Final Stat Sheet
CWPA Release
Lewisburg, PA – The Wagner men's water polo team (8-23) defeated the No. 6 seed Johns Hopkins Blue Jays in the fifth place match of the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) on Sunday morning by a final score of 14-11.
The Green & White took advantage of three different scoring streaks in the game, twice scoring four goals and once three unanswered, to create the distance they needed to hold off the late surging Blue Jays.
Olivér Fodor got the Seahawks on the board on their very first possession, before
Matthew Miller added two goals of his own to put Wagner up 3-0.
After Johns Hopkins responded with their first goal of the game,
Lachlan Trabinger answered with his fifth goal of the weekend to extend the Wagner lead back to three. Two more Blue Jay goals would shrink the lead to one, but Fodor's second goal of the day gave the Green & White a 5-3 lead heading into the second quarter.
The second stanza began the same as the first, with the Seahawks scoring three unanswered goals, compliments of a
Shaked Yacoby brace and Miller's second score of the game. JHU would respond with a lone goal before Fodor completed his hat trick to send the teams into the halftime break with Wagner leading 9-4.
The second half was a story of two very different quarters. In the third period, Wagner would outscore Johns Hopkins 4-2 behind
Vuk Bulajic's first goal of the match and another hat trick from Fodor.
In the fourth quarter, Miller struck first with his fourth score of the day to extend the Seahawk lead to 14-6 with just under five minutes remaining in the game. The Blue Jays would then go on to score five unanswered goals to reduce the deficit to 14-11, but that would be as close as they would come as the final horn sounded.
Wagner was led by Fodor and his game-high six goals in a player of the game performance. Miller and Yacoby both added multi-score performances, notching four and two goals, respectively, while Trabinger and Bulajic each added a lone score.
The Explorers were led by Olin Shipstead who tallied four goals in the game. He was accompanied by only one other multi-goal scoring JHU swimmer, Blue Jay's leading scorer, Jayden Kunwar, who scored two goals in the match. Chris Freese, Emerson Sullivan, Kamran Eslami, Stephen Schmidt, and Jake Pearson each added a single goal for the Blue Jays.
