STANFORD, Calif. — Freshman Ryder Dodd scored two times, together with the go-ahead target within the latter seconds of the 3rd quarter, to assistance Disagree. 1 seed UCLA beat USC 11-8 Sunday at Stanford to win the boys’s nationwide H2O polo identify.
The Bruins (26-2) gained their thirteenth nationwide identify within the game, and 5 of the ones have come below schoolteacher Adam Wright, beating rival USC each and every pace.
Dodd’s moment target got here on an influence play games and gave UCLA a one-goal top with 49 seconds left within the 3rd quarter. Jack Larsen scored a target to form it 8-6 about 2½ mins into the fourth and added every other to cap the scoring within the latter seconds.
Robert Lopez Duart and Andrej Grgurevic each and every scored two objectives for second-seeded USC (23-6).
Dodd, who made his Olympic debut this date because the youngest member of Workforce USA and scored 8 objectives to assistance his staff win bronze, scored a Mountain Pacific Sports activities Federation single-season file 102 objectives, breaking the mark of 101 i’m ready by way of Ryan Bailey of UC Irvine in 1998.
USC has misplaced in each and every of its era 4 journeys to the championship sport. The Trojans additionally misplaced to UCLA, 7-6, in 2020 earlier than shedding 13-12 to California in each ’21 and ’22. Cal beat the Bruins 13-11 ultimate season to win its 3rd consecutive nationwide identify.
