Men’s Water Polo Claims NWPC No. 1 Seed With Wins Over Harvard, MIT

Sunday, November 9

Cambridge, Mass.

10:00 AM

Princeton University

#17 Harvard

Photo by: Colleen Bell

Men’s Water Polo Claims NWPC No. 1 Seed With Wins Over Harvard, MIT

November 09, 2025 | Men's Water Polo

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- The Princeton men's water polo team headed to Cambridge, Mass. on a mission. The Tigers needed to pick up two wins in order to win a share of the NWPC regular season title. They also needed to defeat the Harvard Crimson by two goals or more in order to secure the tournament's top seed in the conference tournament and did just that.

Princeton battled it out with the Crimson and took a 12-9 victory followed by a 19-10 dominant win over the MIT Engineers to wrap up the regular season. The Tigers finished with a 9-1 record in NWPC play and turn their focus to the conference tournament which will be hosted by Brown from Nov. 21-23.

#14 Princeton 12, #17 Harvard 9
The Tigers earned an early exclusion and Otto Stothart found the back of the cage for the first goal of the game. Taylor Bell scored two minutes later in a defensive battle to put Princeton up two.

Harvard scored with just 12 seconds left in the quarter but the Tigers responded. Bell scored once again to open the second frame followed by goals from JP Ohl and Stothart for a four goal lead.

The Crimson scored back to back tallies, but Kristóf Kovács held Harvard to just three goals in the first half.

Princeton came out swinging in the third with Stothart scoring his third goal of the game. Although Harvard scored as well, the Tigers put up a five goal third quarter to pull ahead for good.

Stothart and Logan McCarroll both recorded goals in the final quarter to ice the game for good and take a 12-9 win over the Crimson.

Stothart's four goals led the offense for the Tigers and Kovács racked up 14 saves in the cage, his 15th double digit save performance of the season.

Goals: Stothart (4), Bell (2), Ohl (2), Gavin Appeldorn, Finn LeSieur, Enrique Nuño, McCarroll
Saves: Kovács (14)

#14 Princeton 19, MIT 10
Looking to clinch the NWPC tournament's top seed, Princeton faced its final challenge in the MIT Engineers.

MIT struck first but McCarroll evened the score at one apiece. The Engineers scored one again but then the Tigers were off to the races. Princeton scored five unanswered goals from four different scorers.

With five seconds on the clock, MIT found the back of the cage as the score stood at 6-3 after the first quarter.

Princeton came out firing in the second, scoring five goals. Kovács shutout the Engineers to finish off the quarter before Pierre du Plessis took over in the second half.

The Tigers tacked on eight goals in the second half on the way to its fifth consecutive 20 win season. Princeton's 19 goals were scored by 13 different Tigers in the victory.

Goals: McCarroll (4), Peocz (3), Appeldorn (2), Luka Franulovic (2), Johnston, LeSieur, Nuño, Ohl, William Swart, Bhavan Aulakh, Hayk Yengibaryan, Nathan Banos
Saves: Kovács (3), du Plessis (5)