THE BASICS:
 
- Scores: No. 8 MIT – 7, No. 1 Pomona-Pitzer – 13
 
- Records: MIT (9-19), Pomona-Pitzer (9-19)
 
- Location: Claremont, CA (Haldeman Pool)
 
- The Lead: In the semifinals of the 2021 Division III National Collegiate Water Polo Championships, the MIT water polo team fell to host and top-ranked Pomona-Pitzer, 13-7.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
- The Engineers jumped out to an early 1-0 lead as senior Miller Geschke (Los Altos, Calif.) found classmate Kyle Sandell (Mountain View, Calif) who beat the Sagehens keeper at 7:04.
 
- Pomona then went on a 10-0 run before Sandell took a pass from first-year Richard Yun (Irvine, Calif.) and fired the ball into the back of the net to end the Sagehens' run.

- MIT scored two more goals with Yun getting his first of the game at 3:58 in the third followed by Geschke setting up senior John Steele (Old Greenwich, Conn.) with 44 seconds left in the third to make it a 10-4 game.

- A 3-0 run by the home team made it a nine-goal game, but Geschke got the ball past the keeper to pull MIT to within eight.

- Sophomore Evan Kowal (South Pasadena, Calif.) got MIT another goal at 2:17 while Yun netted his second with 45 seconds remaining in the match as Pomona took the game by a 13-7 score.
 
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- With his two goals in the match, Sandell now has 76 on the season, which is the fifth-most in a single season in program history. He is one goal behind Kale Rogers for fourth all-time.
 
- Geschke now has 73 goals this season to give him 213 in his career, ranking third all-time in team history. His two assists give him a team-leading 56 this season.
 
- Yun now has 25 goals on the season while Steele has 35 and Kowal has 17.
 
- Sophomore Colin Weaver (Huntington Beach, Calif.) made nine saves in net and added two steals for the Engineers.
 

UP NEXT:
 
- The Engineers will take on the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays in a rematch of the finals of the Division III Eastern Championships, which JHU won 11-10 in sudden-death overtime. The match will begin at 11 a.m. Pacific Time.  
 



 
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