{"id":505933,"date":"2026-10-24T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505933\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:20:09","slug":"m-keightley-dishes-seven-assists-as-no-15-spartans-beat-no-20-brown-in-julian-fraser-memorial-opener-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505933\/","title":{"rendered":"M. Keightley Dishes Seven Assists as No. 15 Spartans Beat No. 20 Brown in Julian Fraser Memorial Opener &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SANTA CLARA, Calif. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/mitchell-keightley\" title=\"Mitchell Keightley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Keightley<\/a> dished out seven assists, a season high and the most by a Spartan in a single game since at least 2023, to lead the No. 15 San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s water polo team (8-11, 1-3 WCC) to an 18-13 win over No. 20 Brown (17-6, 3-2 NWPC) on the first day of the Julian Fraser Memorial on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/samu-biros\" title=\"Samu Biros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samu Biros<\/a> put the Spartans on the board first, but Brown answered with a 6-4 lead in the opening quarter. San Jos\u00e9 State responded in a big way. The Spartans took control in the second, outscoring the Bears 6-2 to carry a 10-8 lead into halftime. Brown stayed within reach in the third, trailing 14-11 heading into the final period, but San Jos\u00e9 State pulled away in the fourth behind goals from <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/sam-keightley\" title=\"Sam Keightley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Keightley<\/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> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/giancarlo-marquez\" title=\"Giancarlo Marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giancarlo Marquez<\/a>. The Spartans outscored Brown in each of the final three quarters.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">UP NEXT: The Spartans stay in the Julian Fraser Memorial against No. 14 CBU on Saturday at 9 a.m. at the SRAC.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA, Calif. \u2014 Mitchell Keightley dished out seven assists, a season high and the most by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-505933","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\/505933","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=505933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}