SAN JOSE, Calif.\u2014 After a multi-game road swing, the No. 9 San Jos\u00e9 State men’s water polo team (5-6, 0-0 WCC) returns home this weekend to host UC Merced (0-4, 0-0 WWPA) at noon at the Student Recreation and Aquatic Center (SRAC).<\/p>\n
Before returning to San Jose, the Spartans will travel to Palo Alto on Friday to take on No. 2 Stanford (8-1, 0-0 MPSF) at 1 p.m. at the Avery Aquatics Center. The match will stream live on OVERNGHT.<\/p>\n
Last weekend, the Spartans competed at the MPSF Invite from Sept. 18\u201320 at the Avery Aquatics Center in Palo Alto against a field of top-ranked opponents.<\/p>\n
The Spartans kicked off the invite with a thrilling fourth-quarter comeback victory over No. 8 Princeton, 14-12, sparked by late goals from Louis Fehrensen<\/a>, Mitchell Keightley<\/a> and Sam Keightley<\/a>. #AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif.\u2014 After a multi-game road swing, the No. 9 San Jos\u00e9 State men’s water polo team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-475159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475159","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=475159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn the second day of the tournament, the Spartans were bested by No. 2 USC, 16-7, and then fell\u00a0short against No. 6 Long Beach State, 17-11.
\nTo close out the invite on Sunday, the Spartans battled No. 13 UC Irvine into overtime before dropping a narrow decision, 15-14.
\nS. Keightley led the Spartan attack throughout the weekend, racking up 10 total goals across the four tournament matches.
\nWith his 10-goal output, S. Keightley officially reached 80 career goals as a Spartan.
\nBefore the match against UC Merced, the Spartans will also take on West Valley College in an exhibition match.\u00a0<\/p>\n