No. 3 USC Males’s Water Polo Tops No. 13 Tigers in Residence Water

LOS ANGELES – The third-ranked USC males’s water polo workforce (14-2) collected a 15-13 win over No. 13 Princeton (14-7) beneath the lights at Uytengsu Aquatics Center on Tuesday, Oct. 14.

Redshirt sophomore Charles Mills confronted 31 Princeton photographs and racked up 12 saves within the win. It was his sixth sport with double-digit saves and marked the eighth of his profession.

Freshman Strahinja Krstic led the Trojan offense with 4 targets on seven photographs whereas junior Robert López Duart and freshman Efe Naipoglu every registered hat tips with three targets apiece. Junior Stefan Brankovic had two targets and an help and redshirt senior Jack Martin scored a pair of targets to spherical out a quintet of Trojans with a number of targets. Senior Mihailo Vukazić scored one objective to affix López Duart with a objective scored in all 16 of USC’s video games. For López Duart, it was his team-leading eleventh sport with a number of targets; the ninth for Krstic, the eighth for Martin, and the third for Naipoglu.

The Tigers’ Finn LeSieur racked the primary two targets of the sport and Princeton held a 3-2 lead on the finish of the primary quarter. Brankovic and Krstic had the 2 Trojan targets. The Tigers went up by two targets to open the second quarter, however Krstic’s second objective of the sport spurred USC to a four-goal body with back-to-back targets by Naipoglu to provide the Trojans a 6-4 lead. Princeton scored yet one more with simply 5 seconds to play and enter the half down a objective, 6-5.

USC exploded for six targets within the third and led by as many as 4 at 12-8 however the Tigers floated one over Mills with one second to play to convey Princeton inside three coming into the fourth, 12-9. Krstic and Naipoglu every had targets to log hat tips throughout the Trojans’ third-quarter outburst. Vukazić scored on a 6-on-5 alternative to place the Trojans in entrance by 5, 15-10, however the Tigers clawed again to drag inside two with 4:10 to play. The groups went forwards and backwards however swam to a 15-13 closing.

UP NEXT

USC resumes convention play at Spieker Aquatics Center with a sport towards top-ranked crosstown rival UCLA (18-0, 2-0 MPSF) on Saturday (Oct. 18) at 1 p.m. PT. The Trojans and Bruins meet for the primary of two regular-season video games and might be proven reside ona stream via overnght.com.