Semi-Finalists Set As Day One Of Top 40 Wraps
10/23/2010 12:00:00 AM
Long Beach, CA - October 23 - Day one of the 2010 Top 40 is in the books at Long Beach State with three of the four top seeds holding serve and advancing to the semi-finals to be played Sunday morning. Defending champion the New York Athletic Club was joined by SoCal, and Huntington Beach Water Polo as top seeds to advance. Santa Barbara Water Polo bucked some mild odds to take the fourth spot and advances to the semi-finals to meet NYAC. SoCal and Huntington Beach get together in the other semi-final matchup. For complete results of day one click here.
NYAC dispatched of their opponents in lopsided finishes defeating Colorado 26-2 and then downing CHAWP 17-3. Huntington Beach cruised past the NSD Stars 19-2 before edging SET 12-9 in a later matchup. SoCal put up consecutive 15 goal efforts first beating Foothill 15-4 and then LA Water Polo 15-5. Last but not least Santa Barbara toppled XTreme 15-7 before gutting out victory over a comeback minded Olympic Club 10-8.
The semi-finals begin wth Huntington Beach-SoCal at 9:50am followed by Santa Barbara and NYAC at 11:00am. The championship game is set for 4:40pm. Tickets are available at the door. All the action is scheduled to be webcast live on a single camera feed by clicking here or scores can be tracked through twitter by following twitter.com/usawp.
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