April 28, 2002

LOS ANGELES--Final-day action begins Sunday for the 2002 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Women's Water Polo Championship at USC.

Stanford and UCLA will meet at 4:15 p.m. in the MPSF Championship, with the winner getting an automatic berth into the 4-team NCAA Championship on May 11-12, also at USC. Five other games will be played, beginning with the 11th place match at 10 a.m. between Pacific and Cal State Northridge, followed by the ninth place game at 11:15 a.m. between UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara, the seventh place game at 12:30 p.m. between San Diego State and Hawaii, the fifth place game at 1:45 p.m. between San Jose State and California and the third place game at 3 p.m. between Long Beach State and USC.

Here are results from Sunday's games:

11th Place Match
Cal St. Northridge (5-23)  1-2-3-2---8
Pacific (6-19)             2-0-0-0---2

CSUN Goals: Melissa Hall 2

Pacific Goals: Kelly McNeley 3, Jessica Schroeder 2, Stacy Christy, Hilary Graves, Lyndsay McNamee

CSUN Saves: Jessica Moody 4

Pacific Saves: Julie Ross 14

9th Place Match
UC Irvine (16-22)         2-4-1-2---9
UC Santa Barbara (17-17)  2-2-1-2---7

UC Irvine Goals: Melissa Fernandez 2, Erica Horman 2, Lauren Volcan 2, Rebecca Wedemeyer 2, Nerissa Reidenbaugh

UC Santa Barbara Goals: Mary Blumberg 4, Megan Ricks, Teresa Gorbett, Katy Kunkel

UC Irvine Saves: Sunceray Chamblee 7

UC Santa Barbara Saves: Yvonne Conard 1

Sun., Apr. 28 - Championship
7th Place  Gm 17 12:30 p.m. #7 San Diego State (19-14) vs #8 Hawai'i (14-14)

5th Place  Gm 18 1:45 p.m.  #6 San Jose State (19-11) vs #4 California (17-8)

3rd Place  Gm 19 3:00 p.m.  #5 Long Beach State (19-12) vs #2 USC (25-4)

1st Place  Gm 20 4:15 p.m.  #1 Stanford (21-1) vs #3 UCLA (20-3)

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