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Bruins Continue Winning Ways at No. 7 UCSB
October 13, 2016 | Men's Water Polo
Alex Roelse led the Bruins with a hat trick in the 10-7 win against the Gauchos.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The top-ranked UCLA Bruins led wire-to-wire, imrpoving to 20-0 on the year with a 10-7 victory at No. 7 UC Santa Barbara (8-5) in a non-conference game at Campus Pool on Wednesday afternoon. The win marked the Bruins' 53rd in a row.
Junior Alex Roelse led the Bruins with a game-high-tying three goals. Junior Max Irving and senior Chancellor Ramirez each scored twice for UCLA. Senior Garrett Danner started in goal for the Bruins, registering eight saves, four steals and one assist while giving up seven goals (five on power plays). Liam Lenihan started in goal for the Gauchos, registering six saves while allowing all 10 goals (five on power plays).
Junior Max Irving gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead (7:25) after an exclusion was drawn on the opening possession. Senior Chancellor Ramirez gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead with another power play goal at the 2:11 mark of the first period. But the Gauchos' Boris Jovanovic cut the lead to 2-1 (1:49) with a goal at even strength. Junior Alex Roelse ended the scoring in the third with UCLA leading 3-1 after another power play score (1:19).
UCSB's Shane Hauschild trimmed the lead to 3-2 (6:50) with a power play goal, but senior Ryder Roberts answered immediately (6:19) scoring a goal with the shot clock expiring to push the lead to 4-2. But the Gauchos respond with another 6-on-5 score, this time by Jovanovic, to cut the to 4-3 (5:17). Sophomore David Stiling then scored an exclusion goal (4:41) to push the lead to 5-3. But UCSB's Samer Alkateb made it 5-4 with a power play goal at the 3:55 mark of the second period, which ended the scoring in the quarter.
Ramirez set up Irving for his second score of the game with a front court strike (6:03) and junior Jack Grover set up Ramirez at two meters for his second score of the game (4:44) to push the lead to 7-4. Reed Cotterill cut the lead to 7-5 with the Gauchos' fourth power play goal of the game (3:15). But the Bruins received their fourth power play score of the contest from senior Joey Fuentes (2:52) to push the lead back to three goals at 8-5. Jovanovic completed his hat trick with another power play score (0:05) to end the third with the Bruins leading 8-6.
Roelse opened the scoring in the fourth, scoring a power play goal at the 7:07 mark to make it 9-6. Cotterill trimmed the lead to 9-7 with a goal from the front court (3:43). Roelse then completed his hat trick with a counter score with a lob shot off a feed from Danner (2:12) to provide the 10-7 final.
The Bruins return to action on Saturday, Oct. 22 at No. 2 California for their television debut on the Pac-12 Network for an MPSF game at 3:30 p.m.
No. 1 UCLA at No. 7 UC Santa Barbara (Non-Conference Game)
| SCOREBOARD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F |
| No. 1 UCLA | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| No. 7 UC Santa Barbara | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
6x5 - UCLA - 5/10 - UCSB - 5/12
Penalties - UCLA - 0/0 - UCSB - 0/0
UCLA Goals: Alex Roelse 3, Max Irving 2, Chancellor Ramirez 2, Ryder Roberts 1, Joey Fuentes 1, David Stiling 1
UCLA Saves: Garrett Danner 8
UCSB Goals: Boris Jovanovic 3, Reed Cotterill 2, Shane Hauschild 1, Samer Alkateb 1
UCSB Saves: Liam Lenihan 6
