LOS ANGELES \u2013 The second-ranked UCLA women’s water polo team scored the first four goals and never looked back en route to a 14-8 non-conference victory against No. 12 Fresno State Sunday afternoon at Spieker Aquatics Center. The home win was the Bruins’ third in four days.<\/p>\n
Anna Pearson<\/a> led UCLA (15-2) with four goals. Emma Lineback<\/a> added her third hat trick in as many games, while Bia Mantellato<\/a>, Genoa Rossi<\/a> and Taylor Smith<\/a> each scored twice for the Bruins. Hailey Andress and Riaan Bryant recorded two goals each to lead the Bulldogs (11-9). In the cages, UCLA’s Joey Niz<\/a> registered six saves and Fresno State’s Katelyn Mobley had four.<\/p>\n Pearson, Lineback and Mantellato all scored before the first quarter’s midway point. Katherine O’Dea<\/a> then converted a penalty shot before the Bulldogs got on the board late in the frame.<\/p>\n It was Pearson again who got scoring underway in the second. Rossi answered a Fresno State goal with her first of the day to make the halftime difference 6-2.<\/p>\n Lineback struck to lead off the third. Smith’s scored on a power play, but the Bulldogs rebounded with back-to-back successful efforts. Rossi snapped the mini run with under a minute left, taking advantage of another power play.<\/p>\n Goals came early and often in the fourth, with Pearson logging the first two. The teams would alternate the final seven goals, with multi-time scorers Lineback, Mantellato and Smith rounding out the Bruin total.<\/p>\n UCLA continues its homestand Saturday, March 21 against Harvard. Play begins at 1 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n No. 2 UCLA vs. No. 12 Fresno State
\n6×5: Fresno State \u2013 3\/6, UCLA \u2013 4\/10 Fresno State Goals: Hailey Andress 2, Riaan Bryant 2, Katya Aleshina 1, Noa Markovsky 1, Susanna Martinez 1, Charley Stephens 1 UCLA Goals: Anna Pearson<\/a> 4, Emma Lineback<\/a> 3, Bia Mantellato<\/a> 2, Genoa Rossi<\/a> 2, Taylor Smith<\/a> 2, Katherine O’Dea<\/a> 1
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\n\t\t\tNo. 12 Fresno State
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\n\t\t\tNo. 2 UCLA
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\nPenalties: Fresno State \u2013 1\/1, UCLA \u2013 2\/2<\/p>\n
\nFresno State Saves: Katelyn Mobley 4<\/p>\n
\nUCLA Saves: Joey Niz<\/a> 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 The second-ranked UCLA women’s water polo team scored the first four goals and never looked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-221524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221524","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=221524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}