The 2014-2015 water polo season has come to an end as the girls were devastated by a 21-7 upset against San Clemente on Thursday, February 19. Beside their first round cut from CIF, the girls finished second in Moore League, losing against the Bruins on Jan 22. but prevailing against Lakewood on Jan. 29th and Millikan on Feb .12.
On Feb. 20, the girls entered CIF-Prelims, playing San Clemente, who was seeded second in CIF-D2. The girls hoped to continue onto CIF finals, but unfortunately were not able push past San Clemente as they took a devastating 21-7 loss. While most of San Clemenete’s goals were shot by their aggressive set player, Poly’s sophomore Julia Mangandi put up four goals, accompanied by two from freshman Sydney Brightenburg.
“Their set player was the one scoring most of their points. She would get the ball and the posession wouldn’t be close to over when she would already have had scored,” said Captain Carina Monaco.
As their final game of the Moore League season, the girls faced the Millikan Rams on Thursday, Feb. 12. It seemed as if it would be a close game as the Rams came really aggressive, shooting two goals the first quarter. As the game progressed the Rams slowly started to give into Poly’s persisting offensive, giving up eight goals by the end of the game. Mangdani led the scoreboards with three goals, followed by juniors Carina Monaco and Taylor Martin who each had two, with Brightenburg scoring the last goal of the game. The jackrabbits put their final win for the season in the books with a 8-2 victory.
“Overall the season was pretty good. We finished second in Moore League and everyone progressed a lot this year. It wasn’t a bad season,” said Martin.
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