By Some items that didn’t fit in Monday’s longer piece regarding USC’s Six-peat… Count us as fans of the two play-in matches bringing the field of teams in the men’s tournament to six – not that there’s any real opposition to it. Our preference, of course, would be to increase the
MPSF Championship Highlights Selection Sunday
For the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship today, Stanford faces USC, which upset the nation’s number one squad, Pacific, yesterday in a semi-final rout. The winner gets an automatic bid and an almost certain number one seed after the NCAA makes its final selections for its Championship tournament Sunday night.
Prep Championship Saturday
Fall high school competition ends today with a a flourish: seven boys championships in Southern California, not counting San Diego County (where there are three); six matches in the Central California Section, and four more in the Central Coast Section. Plus collegiate conference championships from coast to coast: WWPA, SCIAC,
NCAA Men’s “Parity,” Greenwich Perfection, OH Prep Champs Set, Mater Dei vs. H-W boys
* A top former collegiate coach told TWp earlier this season that any of the five best men’s college teams could beat each other on a given day. That observation has held form, most recently exemplified by Stanford’s “surprising” win over second-ranked UCLA last Saturday. (The rare loss puts the
GA State Championships, S&R Cup in the OC, Women’s Coaching Conference, Oregon HS Website Refresh
Selected coverage of several items of interest to interscholastic water polo fans this fall season. Scores are already on the books at Georgia’s State High School Water Polo Championships in Cumming this weekend. Preliminary matches taking place today, Friday, while the remainder of the tournament spans the remainder of the weekend.
Kearns and Murray Utah Champs, Fenwick Hosts Camp, Mater Dei Boys’ with Another Championship, South African Boys Visit CA
KEARNS, UT – A month after the fact, the Kearns boys and the Murray girls get their props for winning the Utah state high school water polo championships. Kearns earned its ninth straight title with a win over Cottonwood, while the Kearns girls were unable to overturn victorious Murray in
Final Thoughts on Texas High School Championships
Jersey Village started strongly against Clear Creek in the championship match paced by some crafty off-speed shooting by Iona-bound Chris Ellis. Two perfectly placed junkballs kept Clear Creek’s first-team goalkeeper, Scott Lyle, off balance and kept the Falcons in the game. It wasn’t enough as the Wildcats exploited some defensive
Finals in Texas Set, NCAA Coach On Deck to Appraise Talent
The match of the tournament went as predicted with more than one observer saying that the boys’ semifinal between St. Mark’s and Clear Creek placed the two best teams in the same bracket. Clear Creek won 9-8 by methodically whittling away their deficit, never letting the Lions too far out of
Semi’s Set, Day 1 of Texas HS Championships Complete
The Flower Mound girls gave Clear Springs a challenge in opening round play on Saturday but fell by four goals after scrambling to catch up in the final minutes. Coach Dan Snow’s team is comprised of girls who play water polo only during the high school season, he said after
TWp Notes: Day One of TISCA TX State High School Championships
Day one from Southlake, TX where the state’s high school water polo championships are underway. St. Mark’s, favorites among the boys, got off to a shaky start versus Clear Springs, surrendering a few easy goals. But the Lions recovered with some clamp-down defense to beat a game Clear Springs team
