{"id":500546,"date":"2026-10-18T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500546\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:52:16","slug":"biros-scores-five-in-first-conference-win-against-no-13-pepperdine-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500546\/","title":{"rendered":"Biros Scores Five in First Conference Win Against No. 13 Pepperdine &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MALIBU, Calif. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/samu-biros\" title=\"Samu Biros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samu Biros<\/a> scored a game-high five goals to power the No. 16 San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s water polo team (7-11, 1-3 WCC) to a thrilling 16-13 victory over No. 13 Pepperdine (8-11, 2-2 WCC) for their first conference win on Sunday afternoon at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 State and Pepperdine battled back and forth in a tight first half, but the Spartans managed to build momentum in the second period to carry a one-goal advantage into halftime. The Spartans broke the game open in the third quarter, outscoring the Waves 4-2 to extend their lead, which provided a crucial cushion that held firm through an even fourth period.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT: The Spartans play at Santa Clara for the Julian Fraser Memorial Invitational, opening tournament play against Brown on Friday, Oct. 23 at 12:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MALIBU, Calif. \u2014 Samu Biros scored a game-high five goals to power the No. 16 San Jos\u00e9 State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-500546","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\/500546","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=500546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}