THE BASICS:
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Scores: No. 5 MIT – 5, No. 9 Princeton - 15
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Records: MIT (3-6), Princeton (14-3)
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Location: Princeton, N.J. (DeNunzio Pool)
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The Lead: The MIT men's water polo team dropped a tough match on the road to ninth-ranked Princeton on Sunday morning.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
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- The Tigers opened the match scoring the first seven goals before senior
Miller Geschke (Los Altos, Calif.) got the Engineers on the board at 4:29 in the second.
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- Princeton continued to build upon its lead but a
Richard Yun (Irvine, Calif.) score made it a 9-2 match.
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- Geschke, Yun and senior
Kyle Sandell (Mountain View, Calif.) scored in the fourth, but the Princeton lead was too much to overcome as the Tigers won the match, 15-5.
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INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
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- Geschke and Yun tallied two goals each and the Engineers converted twice on the power play.
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UP NEXT:
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- MIT plays its first match at home this season as the Engineers will welcome Brown to the Zesiger Center Pool on Saturday, October 9
th for a 11 a.m. contest.
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