The Weekend Wrap: Ready to roll in Ohio

The 2025 Western Water Polo Association Championship field is set following an exciting final weekend of the conference regular season in Southern California.

Concordia
The Golden Eagles are the back-to-back West Region champions after sweeping the final weekend of conference play to finish at 5-1 overall … CUI clinched a quarterfinal bye on Friday night by beating UC Merced after Fresno Pacific beat Biola … Surrendered the opening goal against the Bobcats but would score 15 of the next 16 … Dimitrios Koritsas had three goals and two assists … Kaliq Khan scored four goals and CUI outscored FPU 9-3 in the second half in a Senior Day win … The Golden Eagles will play the winner of No. 2 East seed McKendree and No. 3 West seed Fresno Pacific on Sat., Nov. 22 in the WWPA semifinals.

Biola
Will be the West No. 2 seed after splitting its final weekend of regular season play … Fell behind early against FPU and could not recover the rest of the way, sealing the Eagles' fate for the postseason on Friday night … Six seniors accounted for 15 of the Eagles' 16 goals in their Senior Day win over UC Merced on Saturday … Gavin McKenzie had five and Caleb Hernandez added three and two assists … Opens the WWPA Championship against No. 3 East seed Salem on Fri., Nov. 21 in the quarterfinals.

Fresno Pacific
Disrupted the entire closing weekend by going on the road and downing Biola in La Mirada on Friday night … Christian Clark led FPU with four goals while Forrest Gray delivered three … Shut out BU in the fourth quarter … Chris Sandino paced the 'Birds with two goals and an assist in the finale at CUI … Opens the WWPA Championship against No. 2 East seed McKendree in the quarterfinals on Fri., Nov. 22.

Salem
Seemed to get the postseason juices flowing by going to sudden death with Johns Hopkins in its season finale Sunday morning … Danko Kesic had five goals and three assists in the 16-15 loss … Opens the WWPA Championship against No. 2 West seed Biola in the quarterfinals.

UC Merced
Capped off its first season in the WWPA with back-to-back losses at Concordia and Biola … Andrew Jones and Evan Ladeairous led the Bobcats with four goals apiece against CUI … Will play four exhibitions at the WWPA Championship starting with two on day one against No. 1 East seed Gannon and No. 1 West seed Concordia.