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Stanford grads Peter Varellas and Thomas Hopkins combined for the first three goals as the USA Men’s Senior National Water Polo Team battled Serbia to a 13-13 tie Sunday at a sold out Avery Aquatic Center.
Jeff Powers scored the tying goal for Team USA, playing without Stanford grad, team captain, and three-time Olympian Tony Azevedo with under a minute to play.
On Saturday in Berkeley, Varellas scored twice, including the game-tying goal with two minutes left, as Team USA tied Serbia, 8-8.
Varellas answered Serbia’s opening goal with back-to-back goals and Hopkins found the back of the net to make it 3-1 for the Americans.
Serbia came back to tie it at 3-3 and the contest see-sawed the rest of the way.
Adam Wright converted to give Team USA a 4-3 edge with 4:20 remaining in the half.
Serbia scored consecutive goals to regain the lead, 5-4, less than two minutes later but Varellas scored his third goal to tie at 5.
JP MacDonnell and Ryan Bailey scored to give Team USA a 7-5 advantage, but Serbia answered to make it, 7-6, at halftime.
Serbia tied the game again at 7, but Jesse Smith scored for an 8-7 Team USA lead.
After three quarters, the contest was tied at 9-9.
Serbia took a 12-10 lead midway through the final period, but Team USA knotted it up again with goals from Bailey and Wright.
Serbia answered again with a goal from Petar Filipovic to carry a 13-12 lead into the final minute.
Powers found an open spot on a player advantage and the found the net with 59 seconds left.
The U.S. finished its three-game series with Serbia with a loss and two ties.
Next up for Team USA will be the FINA World League Super Final in Montenegro.
Men’s golf
Stanford sophomore Steve Ziegler, participating in his first Palmer Cup with the U.S. squad, split his two singles matches as the Americans fell to the Europeans, 13-11, in the annual Ryder Cup-style collegiate competition which concluded Friday at Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.
Ziegler, named a second-team Ping All-American on Monday, went 2-2 overall, winning his foursome’s match, with partner Erik Flores of UCLA, 1-up. He lost, with Marquette senior Mike Van Sickle, in the four-ball match, 2-up.
Ziegler defeated Texas A&M junior Andrea Pavan, a native of Italy, 2 and 1, and dropped a 5 and 4 decision to Germany native Stephan Gross, a sophomore at Arizona State.
The Netherlands native Tim Sluiter, a sophomore at USC, went unbeaten in his four matches for the European team.
— PA Weekly Online Sports
— PA Weekly Online Sports
— PA Weekly Online Sports
This is article should not be credited to the PAonline staff. It was posted on the USA water polo website yesterday and is shamelessly ripped off. Give credit where credit is due…this is plagiarism
The story has been rewritten to satisfy Mr. Smith, even though it wasn’t “shamelessy ripped off.” It was rewritten enough the first time. True, material did come from the USA Water Polo web site, which is there for the use of the media in the first place. If you want to see material ripped off, read the non-bylined stories in the Daily News. Word for word off the Stanford web site. Overlooked was the fact we had a story on the match at Stanford, which no other paper had. Nor did anyone else have photos from any of the three matches with Serbia. Mr. Smith, you should be thankful that we care enough about the sport to follow it to the extent that we do and quit moaning about how similar our original story was to USA Water Polo. If it started raining during a drought, you’d complain about getting wet.