SAN JOSE, Calif.- Bucknell men’s water polo (11-13) ended its California expedition with another loss in a 22-13 defeat to #15 San Jose State (10-11) on Sunday. The Bison dropped their sixth straight game after the Spartans used a big fourth quarter to prevent a possible upset.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bucknell enjoyed an early 2-1 lead before the Spartans ended the opening quarter on a 4-1 run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SJSU threatened to run away with the contest in the second period before the Bison cut the deficit to 7-6. San Jose State coolly replied with two goals before halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After halftime, San Jose State ran its lead to 11-6 but the Bison, tenacious as always, used a 4-0 run and stood within striking distance. Once again, SJSU kept calm and responded with a 3-0 run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Spartans put the matter to bed in the fourth quarter, scoring eight goals to destroy any chance of a late Orange & Blue rally. Bucknell dented the twine three times but never built a clutch stretch.<\/p>\n
Bucknell concludes the regular season next Sunday in two crucial MAWPC matches at George Washington and Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif.- Bucknell men’s water polo (11-13) ended its California expedition with another loss in a 22-13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-507850","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\/507850","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=507850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}