The Weekend Wrap: Concordia jumps back in it

Looking back on the tenth week of regular season play in the Western Water Polo Association as the postseason closes in.

Concordia
The two-time WWPA runner-up got its revenge on SoCal rival Biola, handling the Eagles 14-9 on Halloween Night … CUI (3-1 WWPA) and BU (3-1 WWPA) currently share first place in the West Region with two conference matches remaining … Harry Bentham, recently back from injury, had a hat trick and an assist … Pablo de Souza turned in another stellar performance with 17 saves and an assist … Oscar Garcia Blomback and Hugo Wouters netted two goals apiece the following day in a loss to No. 16 Loyola Marymount … CUI travels to play Cal State Fullerton on Fri, Nov. 7 at 6pm.

Gannon
The East No. 1 seed wrapped up its regular season with a 19-17 win over crosstown foe Penn State Behrend … Captain Alexandros Kotskar led the way with eight goals on 13 shots … GU went 4-for-7 with a man advantage … Nikiforos Liantziris scored four and Petar Markovic added three … GU opens the 2025 WWPA Championship on Saturday, Nov. 22 against the winner of the No. 3 East seed and the No. 2 West seed.

Biola
Suffered its first conference loss at the hands of Concordia … Remains tied for first place in the West Region with a 3-1 WWPA record with CUI … Nick Murray, Caleb Hernandez and an Isaac Demski goal would pull BU within three in the second half, but the Eagles could not dig themselves out of a 6-0 hole to start the match … Hernandez paced the Eagles with two goals and an assist while Demski scored twice … The Eagles play their final non-conference regular season contest on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 12 pm at UC San Diego.

UC Merced
Played its third top-10 team in a little over a week on Sunday against No. 6 UC Davis … Matthew King and Mathias McCarthy scored the final two goals of the first quarter to pull the Bobcats within 3-2 at the first intermission … Andrew Jones then answered an Aggie goal to keep it at 4-3 in the second … UCD would hold UC Merced to just two scores the rest of the way … Jones had a goal and an assist … Travel to face Fresno Pacific on Saturday, Nov. 8 … If the Bobcats beat the Sunbirds, it'd guarantee the No. 3 West seed for FPU.