CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 19 Harvard men's water polo team won its seventh straight game and capped a perfect 3-0 weekend in its home Harvard Invitational with an 18-10 win over Pomona-Pitzer at Blodgett Pool on Sunday morning. The win evened the Crimson's record at 10-10 on the season.
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Highlights
Nine different players wound up on the scoresheet with three recording hat tricks. Junior
Dean Strauser, sophomore
Connor Kim and first-year
Clay Carrington all scored three times each. With both Harvard goalies down for the second game in a row, senior co-captain
Vilas Sogaard-Srikrishnan took to the cage. This time, he went the distance and provided eight saves and five steals in just his second career appearance in goal.
Game Highlights
· Pomona-Pitzer scored first and led at 2-1 before Harvard rattled off five straight goals; beginning with the first of the game from senior
Jack Burghardt.
· The Crimson dominated the second quarter, 5-1, to own a 10-3 halftime lead.
· Sogaard-Srikrishnan's top save of the game came on a second-quarter penalty shot that led immediately to a Harvard goal on the other end; finished by junior
Lukas Peabody.
· The third quarter featured high-tempo action with Harvard scoring six times to the Sagehens' four.
Goals: Carrington (3), Kim (3), Strauser (3), Peabody (2),
Emil Sogaard-Srikrishnan (2),
Jacob Tsotadze (2), Burghardt (1),
Bradford Dickson (1),
Felix Pal (1)
Saves: V. Sogaard-Srikrishnan (8)
Up Next
Harvard makes its final trip west in the regular season at the Julian Fraser Memorial Tournament next weekend with games against Pacific, Pepperdine, UC Davis and Santa Clara.