Princeton University Athletics
Water Polo Travels to Easterns Looking to Defend 2004 Title
November 11, 2005 | Men's Water Polo
Nov. 11, 2005
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton men's water polo team will compete at the CWPA Eastern Championships this weekend with hopes of securing the program's third overall and second consecutive Eastern Championship, and a trip to the NCAA Water Polo Championships on Dec. 3-4 at Bucknell. Last season Princeton defeated St. Francis 3-2 to win the Eastern Championship.
Princeton enters the weekend off a second-place finish at Southern Championship two weekends ago at Navy. Princeton topped Gannon, Penn State Behrend and Slippery Rock to reach the finals, but fell to tournament-host Navy 10-7 in the championship game.
Princeton opens Easterns as the tournament's third seed and will face Eastern-host Harvard in the first round at 1:30 p.m., on Saturday. Princeton's second-round opponent will be either St. Francis or Slippery Rick depending on how the first round plays out. The other two first rounds games feature Navy against Iona and Bucknell against Brown.
Princeton enters the weekend with a record of 19-9 overall. One win will give the Tigers, 20, which would be the team's fourth-straight 10-win season and the sixth in program history
Princeton is led in the pool by two-time All-America John Stover. Stover, who became Princeton's all-time leading scorer at Southerns leads the team with 69 goals. Nicholas Seaver ranks second with 38, while Zach Beckmann has 30. Gant Morgner and Scott Syverson have split time in goal, with Morgner playing to a 9-5 record, and Syverson to a 10-4 record.