{"id":475985,"date":"2026-09-26T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475985\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:22:11","slug":"no-9-spartans-fall-short-against-no-2-stanford-in-hard-fought-battle-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475985\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 9 Spartans Fall Short Against No. 2 Stanford in Hard Fought Battle &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">PALO ALTO, Calif.\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/sam-keightley\" title=\"Sam Keightley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Keightley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/samu-biros\" title=\"Samu Biros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samu Biros<\/a> each recorded hat tricks to lead the No. 9 San Jos\u00e9 State men&#8217;s water polo team (5-7, 0-0 WCC) in a 16-10 loss to No. 2 Stanford (9-1, 0-0 MPSF) on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Spartans kept pace with the Cardinal early, trailing by just one goal after the first quarter before matching Stanford&#8217;s five goals in the second to make it an 8-7 game at halftime. Stanford pulled away in the second half, outscoring the Spartans down the stretch to secure the 16-10 win.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">UP NEXT: The Spartans return home for an exhibition against West Valley College at 9 a.m., followed by a matchup with UC Merced at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALO ALTO, Calif.\u2014 Sam Keightley and Samu Biros each recorded hat tricks to lead the No. 9 San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-475985","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\/475985","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=475985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}