PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Harvard men's water polo team split the day at the Bruno Invite with a buzzer-beater loss to Concordia followed by a win over Johns Hopkins to snap a seven-game losing streak. The Crimson moved to 3-9 on the season with results of 19-18 and 17-13.
CUI (7-6) never trailed in the game, scoring the first two goals of the morning and leading by as many as four at 9-5. Harvard came back to tie the game on five occasions, including as late as 18-18. The Golden Eagles called timeout with 2.8 seconds remaining and got the game-winning from Levi Riegelman as time expired. CUI was led in scoring by Joao Goncalves and Hugo Wouters with five apiece. The Crimson's leading goal scorer was
Dean Strauser at four.
In game two, Johns Hopkins held the edge after one quarter of play despite Harvard getting out to an early lead. However, the Crimson dominated the second quarter 9-1 and held the lead the rest of the way. Harvard's lead was trimmed to one in the third as the Blue Jays regused to go quietly, but the Crimson finished strong; led by Strauser for the second game in a row with a four-goal performance.
Concordia 19, Harvard 18
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Highlights
• Strauser got Harvard on the board with a penalty shot to trim into Concordia's initial lead at 2-1.
• The Golden Eagles had an answer for every Crimson goal until late in the second when Harvard netted back-to-back goals to trim the deficit to 9-7 at the half.
• The Crimson's momentum carried over into the third quarter despite CUI scoring first. Harvard answered with three consecutive goals, capped by a
Lukas Peabody snipe to make it 11-10.
• The deficit remained at one entering the fourth after Strauser scored his third goal of the game.
• Early in the fourth,
Jonas Ransford came up with the first of many critical saves in the final frame. An exclusion immediately followed and Harvard called timeout, looking to capitalize on the power play, but the Crimson's shot hit the post and the Golden Eagles responded with a goal to push its lead back to two.
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Jacob Tsotadze soon found the back of the net and after two more saves from Ransford
Jack Burghardt registered his second goal to tie the game at 15-15.
• The two sides went back-and-forth with Peabody recording a hat trick that tied the game at 18-18 with less than three seconds left before Riegelman notched the buzzer beater.
Goals: Strauser (4),
Clay Carrington (3),
Tyler Hogan (3), Peabody (3), Burghardt (2),
Connor Kim (1), Slutzky (1), Tsotadze (1)
Saves: Ransford (9)
Harvard 17, Johns Hopkins 13
Final Stats |
Highlights
• Harvard led 3-2 early before a 3-0 Johns Hopkins run to end the first quarter up 5-3.
• The Crimson opened the second quarter on a 4-1 run, including two goals from Strauser, and finished the frame with a 9-1 advantage to lead 12-6 at halftime.
• Harvard had to withstand a 5-0 Blue Jays run on the other side of the break, but got the last goal of the third to stem the tide and hold a two-goal lead going into the fourth.
Goals: Burghardt (5), Strauser (4), Kim (2), Peabody (2),
Bradford Dickson (1),
Felix Pal (1),
Emil Sogaard-Srikrishnan, Tsotadze (1)
Saves: Price (7)
Up Next
Next weekend, the Crimson open conference play at Princeton (Oct. 3), LIU (Oct. 4) and Iona (Oct. 4).
