LEWISBURG, Pa.- Bucknell\u00a0men’s water polo (6-6, 1-1 MAWPC), reaching .500 status after a brutally tough opening schedule, seeks to move above the baseline and add two more conference wins to its ledger this Saturday when the Bison face Mercyhurst (1 p.m.) and Route 15 Rival Mount St. Mary’s (4 p.m.). Both games will be streamed on NEC Front Row.<\/p>\n
The Opening Sprint The Inside “Herd” on the Bison
Opposition Overview<\/p>\n
Up Next<\/p>\n The Bison return to home waters to face MAWPC foes, George Washington (Oct. 3) and Navy (Oct. 4).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEWISBURG, Pa.- Bucknell\u00a0men’s water polo (6-6, 1-1 MAWPC), reaching .500 status after a brutally tough opening schedule, seeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-293083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat:\u00a0MAWPC Games at Mercyhurst
\nWhere:\u00a0Hallman Aquatic Center\u00a0(Erie, Pa.)
\nWhen:\u00a0September 26
\nWatch: NEC Front Row (Mercyhurst)<\/a> | NEC Front Row (Mount St. Mary’s)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n\tBucknell went 3-1 at its annual invitational. The Bison started the weekend with a respectable 22-11 loss to #5 Fordham. Bucknell was tied 6-6 with Fordham before the Rams turned on the afterjets. The Orange & Blue rallied the troops and dropped Salem 15-9, handled Wagner 19-14 in an extremely physical conflict, and harpooned LIU 17-9.\u00a0
\n\tThe Orange & Blue were picked third in the MAWPC Preseason Poll.\u00a0
\n\tTyler Hedblad<\/a> paces the Bison with 30, followed by Jack Dillane<\/a> with 28, Pier Giorgio Cicchetti<\/a> has\u00a023, and Sean Tunnicliff<\/a> has scored 22 times.\u00a0
\n\tGoalkeeper David Dumitru<\/a> has recorded 89 saves.\u00a0
\n\tCicchetti leads the team in assists (30) and points (76).\u00a0
\n\tBucknell has played seven\u00a0ranked Division I teams, and eight ranked teams overall, if including Division III Occidental.\u00a0\u00a0
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\n\tMercyhurst\u00a0is 1-11 overall and 0-2 in MAWPC affairs. The Lakers were present at the Bucknell Invitational and went 0-3 against MAWPC foes Fordham and Wagner and recorded a loss to non-conference opponent MIT. Their sole win came against Washington & Jefferson.\u00a0
\n\tMount St. Mary’s sits 3-7 overall and 0-2 in MAWPC action. The Mount also attended the Bucknell Invitational, and like its fellow Catholic school, went 0-3. The Mountaineers fell against MAWPC foe #5 Fordham and dropped matches to LIU and MIT. MSM defeated Austin, Iona, and LIU for its three wins.\u00a0\u00a0
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