By: Gabrielle Ducharme
Box Score ORANGE, Calif.— Chapman Women's water polo dominated at home against Occidental winning 23-12. Senior attacking star
Alyssa Fricker led the way with eight goals and five assists.
Other Panthers also had career nights, as freshman
Annie Nadolski netted three goals on just five shots.
Riley Eaves,
Kendall Pappan,
Ruthie Lax,
Aveen Cunningham,
Jamie Chin,
Meg Peters,
Amelia Bayha,
Annika Liou and
Nina Bastick also all netted at least one goal. Eleven different Panthers scored making it one of the most dominant wins of the season.
Defensively, goalkeeper
Zoey Francis had 15 blocks while
Katrina McCay had three blocks off the bench. During the six-on-five, the two goalkeepers also stopped four out of five shots. Francis is also making her mark in her first year playing the SCIAC. The junior transfer has recorded the most saves in conference with 114 of them.
Fricker is also leading the conference in goals with 42 of them, while Pappan and Fricker are both in the top three in the conference in assists along with earned ejections. The Panthers find themselves ranked third in the conference sitting at 7-3 with just two conference games remaining in the regular season.
The Panthers will now hit the home stretch of their season, as they are set to host Cal Lutheran in a SCIAC match-up on Saturday, April 12 at 11 a.m.