Saturday, September 22, 2001
[WATER POLO]
Chaminade's water polo program evened its five game series with Brigham Young-Hawaii last night, beating the Seasiders 11-9 at Kamehameha Schools. Chaminade gets first win
By Jerry Campany
jcampany@starbulletin.comBYUH (3-7) won the first matchup of the season 16-13, the next will be Oct. 5.
Chaminade (1-1) led the contest from the 2:51 mark of the first period, but could not shake the scrappy Seasiders, who stayed within one goal through the first three quarters. The Silverswords broke through on its first posession of the fourth quarter when Petar Samac beat Steven Pace to extend the lead to 8-6 with 6:41 left.
Samac scored again three minutes later, this time beating Vanja Kalabic on a crisp pass from Kirk Ziegler. Samac led all scorers with five goals.
Chaminade forced BYUH into three straight turnovers between Pace's scores, and stopped the Seasiders twice more before Kostantinos Chaidemenakis converted another Ziegler pass to run the score to 10-6 with just 2:11 remaining.
The Seasiders did not give up though, pushing the ball up the pool to score on its next two posessions to pull within two goals with 1:07 left, the first a power play shot from the slot by Pace and the next when Tyler Oakes found himself alone with the goalie and converted.
But it was too late for the Seasiders, who allowed Samac to score from in front of the goal with 53 seconds left.
Kalabic led the Seasiders with another hat trick but was held scoreless throughout the final 7:54.
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