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No. 1 USC Beats The Bruins For 12th Straight Win To Score Spot In MPSF Final
April 28, 2018 | Women's Water Polo, Features
Paige Hauschild scores five to help USC to a 13-10 semifinal win over UCLA and move into tomorrow’s title match.
BERKELEY, CALIF. — The No. 1 USC women's water polo team had its underclassmen explode on the offensive end to anchor the Trojans to a 13-10 win over No. 4 UCLA in the MPSF Tournament semifinals in Berkeley today. Headlined by MPSF Newcomer of the Year Paige Hauschild's five goals, USC's freshmen and sophomores accounted for 11 Trojan goals. On the defensive end, USC junior goalie Amanda Longan — the MPSF Player of the Year — lived up to her billing with 13 saves in under four periods of work. The victory send the top-seeded Trojans into tomorrow's title match at 12:45 p.m. at Cal's Spieker Aquatics Complex. USC improves to 22-1 overall with today's semifinal win and extends its win streak to 12 straight.
Hauschild's five-goal outburst bumps her 2018 total to 61 goals, marking the second most ever in a single season by a USC true freshman. Longan's 13 saves today also tugs the USC junior to the No. 3 all-time slot in Trojan history with 542 career saves now to her name.
After the Bruins struck first, USC rifled in back-to-back goals with veteran Brianna Daboub hammering in the Trojans' opening goal with authority off a setup from sophomore Maud Megens before Hauschild found fellow freshman Verica Bakoc for a ripper that tugged USC ahead 2-1 Up against a string of UCLA power play chances, Longan delivered a block on the first of the series, but later was stuck facing a 6-on-4 situation that UCLA capitalized on to level it 2-2 by the end of the first. The Bruins would get plenty more opportunities in the second, with six 6-on-5 chances in the next eight minutes. USC's defense would shut down all but one, while the Trojans poured on three more goals — another from Bakoc, a bullet from Megens and then a laser from Hayley McKelvey — before Longan issued one more power play save to end the half with a 5-3 USC lead.
The start of the third was much like the end of the second, with Longan hauling in another clutch save. This one sent USC off on the counterattack, where Hauschild hit McIntosh for the finishing touch and a 6-3 USC lead. Some hustle work from McIntosh would get USC a 5-meter penalty chance soon after, and Hauschild deposited it through to make it a 7-3 USC advantage. UCLA would make the most of its 10th power play of the game next, but Haushild stepped up — literally — in climbing high for a jam that got USC back to a four-goal advantage. UCLA would net back-to-back goals next to cut it to a two-goal margin, only to see Hauschild deliver her third of the period off a pass from Megens, and USC was up 9-6 on its rivals to go into the fourth.
Hauschild kept coming in the fourth, rifling in a solo shot on an opening USC 6-on-5 earned by captain Daboub and then answering a crosscage score from UCLA with a rocket that had USC up 11-7 with 5:18 to go. McIntosh's second of the day got USC to a 12-8 lead before the Bruins carved it down to 12-10 with 30 seconds remaining, but USC got the final word on a blast from sophomore Kaylee Brownsberger with two ticks to go to wrap up a 13-10 USC victory.
USC now turns to face No. 2 Stanford in tomorrow's MPSF title match, fighting for an automatic NCAA berth in a 12:45 p.m. final in Berkeley.
2018 MPSF TOURNAMENT (Spieker Aquatics Complex | Berkeley, Calif.)
SEMIFINAL
#1 USC 13, #4 UCLA 10
April 28, 2018 (Spieker Aquatics Complex | Berkeley, Calif.)
USC 2 - 3 - 4 - 4 = 13
UCLA 2 - 1 - 3 - 4 = 10
SCORING:
USC — Paige Hauschild 5, Verica Bakoc 2, Kelsey McIntosh 2, Brianna Daboub, Maud Megens, Hayley McKelvey, Kaylee Brownsberger.
UCLA — Bronte Halligan 4, Maddie Musselman 3, Grace Reego, Emily Skelly, Alexis Liebowitz.
SAVES: Amanda Longan (USC) 13, Victória Chamorro (USC) 3, Carlee Kapana (UCLA) 8, Hannah Storum (UCLA) 0.
Hauschild's five-goal outburst bumps her 2018 total to 61 goals, marking the second most ever in a single season by a USC true freshman. Longan's 13 saves today also tugs the USC junior to the No. 3 all-time slot in Trojan history with 542 career saves now to her name.
After the Bruins struck first, USC rifled in back-to-back goals with veteran Brianna Daboub hammering in the Trojans' opening goal with authority off a setup from sophomore Maud Megens before Hauschild found fellow freshman Verica Bakoc for a ripper that tugged USC ahead 2-1 Up against a string of UCLA power play chances, Longan delivered a block on the first of the series, but later was stuck facing a 6-on-4 situation that UCLA capitalized on to level it 2-2 by the end of the first. The Bruins would get plenty more opportunities in the second, with six 6-on-5 chances in the next eight minutes. USC's defense would shut down all but one, while the Trojans poured on three more goals — another from Bakoc, a bullet from Megens and then a laser from Hayley McKelvey — before Longan issued one more power play save to end the half with a 5-3 USC lead.
The start of the third was much like the end of the second, with Longan hauling in another clutch save. This one sent USC off on the counterattack, where Hauschild hit McIntosh for the finishing touch and a 6-3 USC lead. Some hustle work from McIntosh would get USC a 5-meter penalty chance soon after, and Hauschild deposited it through to make it a 7-3 USC advantage. UCLA would make the most of its 10th power play of the game next, but Haushild stepped up — literally — in climbing high for a jam that got USC back to a four-goal advantage. UCLA would net back-to-back goals next to cut it to a two-goal margin, only to see Hauschild deliver her third of the period off a pass from Megens, and USC was up 9-6 on its rivals to go into the fourth.
Hauschild kept coming in the fourth, rifling in a solo shot on an opening USC 6-on-5 earned by captain Daboub and then answering a crosscage score from UCLA with a rocket that had USC up 11-7 with 5:18 to go. McIntosh's second of the day got USC to a 12-8 lead before the Bruins carved it down to 12-10 with 30 seconds remaining, but USC got the final word on a blast from sophomore Kaylee Brownsberger with two ticks to go to wrap up a 13-10 USC victory.
USC now turns to face No. 2 Stanford in tomorrow's MPSF title match, fighting for an automatic NCAA berth in a 12:45 p.m. final in Berkeley.
2018 MPSF TOURNAMENT (Spieker Aquatics Complex | Berkeley, Calif.)
SEMIFINAL
#1 USC 13, #4 UCLA 10
April 28, 2018 (Spieker Aquatics Complex | Berkeley, Calif.)
USC 2 - 3 - 4 - 4 = 13
UCLA 2 - 1 - 3 - 4 = 10
SCORING:
USC — Paige Hauschild 5, Verica Bakoc 2, Kelsey McIntosh 2, Brianna Daboub, Maud Megens, Hayley McKelvey, Kaylee Brownsberger.
UCLA — Bronte Halligan 4, Maddie Musselman 3, Grace Reego, Emily Skelly, Alexis Liebowitz.
SAVES: Amanda Longan (USC) 13, Victória Chamorro (USC) 3, Carlee Kapana (UCLA) 8, Hannah Storum (UCLA) 0.
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