Men's Water Polo

No. 3 Stanford Water Polo Team Defeated By No. 5 UC Irvine

Oct. 28, 2000

Irvine, Ca - UC Irvine's Jeff Powers scored three goals to lead the fifth-ranked Anteaters to a 10-6 victory over third-ranked Stanford in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game on Saturday at the Anteater Aquatics Complex.

Stanford led 4-3 at halftime, but were outscored, 7-2, in the second half.

Peter Osborn's goal with 3:19 left in the second quarter gave the Cardinal a 4-1 lead before the Anteaters reeled off five unanswered goals.

Brian Darrow scored an extra-man goal with 5:19 left in the game to pull Stanford within 6-5, but Dan Hayes scored consecutive goals to give UCI an 8-5 lead and UCI cruised from there.

Peter Hudnut scored two goals and Nick Ellis had four saves in goal for Stanford.

Stanford travels to Pepperdine on Sunday for a noon game.

Stanford (9-8, 1-4 MPF)2202=6
UC Irvine (14-4, 4-1 MPSF)1234=10
Stanford scorers: Hudnut 2, Snider 1, Dutton 1, Darrow 1, Osborn 1
UCI scorers: Powers 3, Hayes 2, Kirchwehm 1, Dorfi 1, Grosso 1, Coffman 1, Hipp 1
Goalie saves: Ellis (S) 4, Hipp (UCI) 8