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Water Polo Earns Share Of Southern Regular Season Title With 9-7 Win
April 18, 2010 | Women's Water Polo
Phoebe Champion scored three goals and Kristen Ward made nine saves to lead the Princeton women's water polo team to a 9-7 victory over George Washington Sunday afternoon. The win clinches a share of the Southern Division regular season title and the second seed for the Southern Championships next weekend at Princeton.
Princeton led 7-2 at the midway point and scored one goal in each of the final two quarters to maintain its advantage. While Champion scored three goals, five other Tigers scored at least one goal. Lauren Brunner scored twice, while Carolina Ardila, Tanya Wilcox, Saranna Soroka and Brittany Zwirner each scored once.
Princeton will be the number two seed, just behind Bucknell. The Bison clinched the top seed Sunday with an 11-10 victory at Maryland.
PU 2 - 5 - 1 - 1 -- 9
GW 1 - 1 - 3 - 2 -- 7
PU goals - Brunner 2, Champion 3, Ardila, Wilcox, Soroka, Zwirner
PU saves - Ward 9
GW goals - Karandy, Stamler 4, Sullivan, Chereson
GW saves - Schou 8
Records
PU - 17-8, 5-1
GW - 7-15, 0-6