San Marcos girls water polo battled to a 9-8 win over a strong Long Beach Wilson team in the first game of the Newport Elite 8 Tournament on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Newport Elite tournament is arguably the hardest tournament of the year,\u201d San Marcos head coach Chuckie Roth said. \u201cFive games against some of the best teams is a true test for any team to put together five quality games in a three-day period.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two sides ended the first quarter tied at 2-2, with the Royals scoring on a pair of goals by Jade Pattison off assists from Charlotte Raisin.<\/p>\n
San Marcos took the advantage in the second quarter with goals from Raisin, Pattison and Lily Bordofsky to take a 5-3 advantage into halftime.<\/p>\n
The Royals continued to roll in the fourth, getting goals from Raisin, Pattison and Sophie Yonker to build that lead up to 9-4 with one quarter to play.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Wilson surged back with four unanswered goals in the fourth, but San Marcos goalie Bethany King came up with a clutch point-blank save in the final moments to seal the victory.<\/p>\n
The Royals will take on Cathedral Catholic and Mater Dei in a doubleheader on Friday.<\/p>\n
Dos Pueblos 19, Rio Mesa 7<\/p>\n
The Chargers wrapped up their Channel League regular season schedule with a victory over the Spartans on Thursday at Elings Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n
Dos Pueblos dominated the opening quarter, pouring nine goals while holding Rio Mesa scoreless to take a 9-0 lead into the second.<\/p>\n
The Chargers continued to hold onto their comfortable advantage throughout the matchup en route to the win.<\/p>\n
Cierra Furneaux celebrated her Senior Day with two goals and five saves on a day where 10 different Chargers scored. Mackenzie Beard scored her first three varsity goals for Dos Pueblos as well.<\/p>\n
The Chargers (16-5, 5-1 Channel League) will compete in the SoCal Championships Tournament in Irvine this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Marcos girls water polo battled to a 9-8 win over a strong Long Beach Wilson team in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-145881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}