{"id":468713,"date":"2026-09-19T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468713\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:52:13","slug":"uc-san-diego-downs-pepperdine-for-the-second-time-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468713\/","title":{"rendered":"UC San Diego Downs Pepperdine for the Second Time this Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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STANFORD, Calif. \u2014 For the second time this season the No. 9 UC San Diego men’s water polo team edged No. 11 Pepperdine, taking a 10-9 decision Friday on the\u00a0opening day of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF)\u00a0Invite.<\/p>\n

Stanford is hosting the event Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Avery Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n

With the victory, the Tritons improved to 8-1 and will face off\u00a0against UCLA, the No. 1 squad in the nation, Saturday at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n

Senior Finn Bugelli’s<\/a> goal with just 39 seconds left in the game stood as the game-winner as it put the Tritons ahead 10-8.<\/p>\n

UC San Diego sophomore Jackson Boettner<\/a> led all players with four goals. Junior Christian Hammonds<\/a>, the Tritons’ top scorer, netted two goals as did junior Jack Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boettner scored the game’s first two goals early in the opening quarter and UC San Diego would never trail. The Wave did tie the score twice, once at 3-3 in the first and again at 4-4 in the second. A Wright goal at the 5:58 mark of the third put the Tritons ahead 5-4 and they were able to retain a lead the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Erik Ionescu had four points for the Wave, collecting a hat trick and an assist.<\/p>\n

UC San Diego also defeated Pepperdine 17-15 in overtime on August 30 during the Triton Invitational in La Jolla.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game against the Bruins can be followed with a live stream by Overnght.com<\/a>.
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About UC San Diego Athletics
\nAfter two decades as one of the most successful\u00a0programs in\u00a0NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a\u00a0member of The Big West in\u00a0NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions\u00a0II\u00a0and III and helped guide\u00a01,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38\u00a0have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world’s preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links BUY TICKETS 2026 Schedule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-468713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468713","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=468713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}