{"id":499829,"date":"2026-10-18T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499829\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:52:09","slug":"no-16-spartans-fall-short-against-no-8-lmu-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499829\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 16 Spartans Fall Short Against No. 8 LMU &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">LOS ANGELES \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/mitchell-keightley\" title=\"Mitchell Keightley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Keightley<\/a> scored two goals to lead No. 16 San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s water polo (6-11, 0-3 WCC), but the Spartans fell 13-9 to No. 8 LMU (13-6, 4-0 WCC) on Saturday afternoon at the Burns Center.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">San Jos\u00e9 State stayed close in the first half. The Spartans trailed by two after the opening period, then matched the Lions goal for goal the rest of the way. The third period was scoreless for San Jos\u00e9 State, but the Spartans outscored LMU 5-2 in the fourth. It wasn\u2019t enough to complete the comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Keightley, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/giancarlo-marquez\" title=\"Giancarlo Marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giancarlo Marquez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/zalan-hegedus\" title=\"Zalan Hegedus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zalan Hegedus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/liam-dodunski\" title=\"Liam Dodunski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Dodunski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/mateja-cetkovic\" title=\"Mateja Cetkovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mateja Cetkovic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/louis-fehrensen\" title=\"Louis Fehrensen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Fehrensen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/aron-sarfalvi\" title=\"Aron S\u00e1rfalvi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aron S\u00e1rfalvi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/vince-biros\" title=\"Vince Biros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Biros<\/a> each scored once.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/zach-ramans\" title=\"Zach Ramans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Ramans<\/a> set up the offense with three assists.<br \/>\nOn defense, Biros had two steals, and Dodunski drew four kickouts.<br \/>\nIn the cage, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/alexey-poletaev\" title=\"Alexey Poletaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexey Poletaev<\/a> made nine saves, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/stellen-karkazis\" title=\"Stellen Karkazis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellen Karkazis<\/a> added three.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">UP NEXT: On a quick turnaround, the Spartans face No. 13 Pepperdine tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool in Malibu, Calif. The match will stream on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 Mitchell Keightley scored two goals to lead No. 16 San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s water polo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-499829","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\/499829","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=499829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}