{"id":478137,"date":"2026-09-28T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478137\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:29:31","slug":"san-jose-state-uc-davis-up-next-stanford-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478137\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jos\u00e9 State, UC Davis up Next &#8211; Stanford Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STANFORD, Calif.\u00a0&#8211; No. 3 Stanford (8-1) has a pair of major matchups this weekend, hosting No. 9 San Jos\u00e9 State on Friday before heading north for a Sunday bout at No. 16 UC Davis.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal is coming off a strong weekend at the Overnght MPSF Invitational, going 3-1 in a second-place finish. Stanford took down No. 2 USC in the semifinal, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/bernardo-herzer\" title=\"Bernardo Herzer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bernardo Herzer<\/a>&#8216;s 22 saves in goal.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s home game is scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m. PT, and can be streamed on Overnght. Sunday&#8217;s game. Sunday&#8217;s game is set for noon in Davis, and will be streamed on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>NON-CON HOT STREAK \u00bb The Cardinal has been on a roll against opponents outside of the MPSF West, winning each of the last 49 games against teams other than UCLA, USC and California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">NEWCOMER INTRODUCTIONS \u00bb The Card&#8217;s two transfers have showed out to start the season, with <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/bernardo-herzer\" title=\"Bernardo Herzer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bernardo Herzer<\/a> making 91 saves in seven games. In the first nine games of the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/james-rozolis-hill\" title=\"James Rozolis-Hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Rozolis-Hill<\/a> is third on the team with 16 goals.<\/p>\n<p>DYNAMIC DUO \u00bb The returning duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/botond-balogh\" title=\"Botond Balogh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Botond Balogh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/ben-forer\" title=\"Ben Forer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Forer<\/a> was one of the best goal-producing pairs in the MPSF last year \u2013 joining to post 230 points (136 goals, 94 assists). Forer&#8217;s 48 assists were second-best in the MPSF West. In 2026, the duo has combined for 35 goals and 22 assists. Forer&#8217;s 30 total points lead the team, and Balogh&#8217;s 27 are not far behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">MPSF HONORS \u00bb Four weeks into the season, the Cardinal has already picked up a pair of MPSF weekly awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STANFORD, Calif.\u00a0&#8211; No. 3 Stanford (8-1) has a pair of major matchups this weekend, hosting No. 9 San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-478137","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\/478137","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=478137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}