Anteaters drop to No. 5 in college polo rankings

The UC Irvine men’s water polo team, following a 6-3 loss at

Pepperdine last Saturday, has slipped three places to No. 5 in the

latest American Water Polo Coaches Association Top 20 poll released

Wednesday.

Stanford remains at No. 1, UCLA is second, and California and USC

are tied for third.

Coach Ted Newland’s Anteaters, 10-5 overall and 1-1 in the

Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, host Stanford Friday at 6 p.m.

and USC Sunday at noon. Both games will be at the Anteater Aquatics

Complex.

NATIONAL RANKINGS

1. Stanford; 2. UCLA; 3. (tie) California and USC; 5. UC

Irvine; 6. Pepperdine; 7. Loyola Marymount; 8. Pacific; 9. Long Beach

St.; 10. Navy; 11. Princeton; 12. UC San Diego; 13. UC Santa Barbara;

14. Queens College; 15. Harvard; 16. St. Francis; 17. Cal Baptist; 18. BYU-Hawaii; 19. UC Davis; 20. Iona.

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MEN’S SOCCER: UC Irvine, Fullerton endure scoreless standoff

UC Irvine’s men’s soccer team (6-5-2, 1-1-1) are at UC Riverside

Saturday at 1 p.m. trying to improve on its 6-5-2, 1-1-1 Big West

Conference record following Tuesday’s scoreless tie with host Cal

State Fullerton.

Sophomore Cameron Rossi earned his fifth shutout of the season

with 10 saves.

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MEN’S SOCCER: Vanguard University clobber Christian Heritage, 7-2

Also on Tuesday, the Vanguard University men’s soccer team earned

its first Golden State Athletic Conference win in dominating fashion

with a 7-2 victory over visiting Christian Heritage.

Vanguard (5-12, 1-6 in conference) built a 5-1 halftime lead and

went on to keep Christian Heritage (5-10-2, 0-7) winless in the GSAC.

The Lions’ Matt Hess and Armando Ortiz scored two goals each,

while Nate Kramer, Matt Hearn and Sean Ganey came up with single

tallies. Ortiz and Freshmen Jarrett Borrego and Andrew Sundseth

earned one assist each. Hess has scored 16 goals this season. The

Lions outshot Christian Heritage, 27-11.

Vanguard returns to GSAC action Saturday at 3:30 p.m., playing at

The Master’s College.

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COLLEGE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Vanguard University fall, 3-0

Biola University was a 3-0 Golden State Athletic Conference winner

over host Vanguard University Tuesday in women’s volleyball, 30-24,

30-19, 30-25, dropping the Lions to 7-15, 3-11 in the GSAC. Jen

Geisbauer had 14 kills for Vanguard.

Vanguard hosts Westmont College Friday night at 7.

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GOLF: UCI men second in 14-team field at Tillinghast

The UC Irvine men’s golf team finished second in a 14-team field

in The Tillinghast, hosted by St. John’s University at Quaker Ridge

Golf Course in Scarsdale, N.Y.

James Madison won the 36-hole tournament that concluded Wednesday

with a final total of 576, followed by UCI at 584, San Diego at 596

and the host Red Storm with 599 for fourth place.

Andrew Svoboda of St. John’s was the medalist with a 36-hole score

of 1-over 139 after shooting a 71 Wednesday.

UCI’s Mike Lavery finished third at 142 with a final round of 74

and Vinnie Poncino was fourth at 143 after a 71 in the last round.

The Anteaters’ Ryan Armstrong placed 12th at 148 with a 73

Wednesday, Jay Choe shot 75 to finish 23rd at 151 and Jeff Coburn had

an 82 to come in at 52nd place (158).

Coach Paul Smolinski’s Anteaters close out their fall schedule in

The

Prestige at LaQuinta Mountain in La Quinta, Calif., Nov. 4-5.