Lady Otters End Season With Attack

Destinie Schroff, Staff Reporter

Destinie_Schroff @csumb.edu

May 8, 2008

The CSU Monterey Bay

(CSUMB) water polo Otters

placed eigth at the 2008 Western

Water Polo Association (WWPA)

Championships in Los Angeles on

the weekend of April 26-27. While

this is only one spot better than last

season, the players believe their

hard work and great improvements

are not shown on the scoreboards

but in the statistics.

“Our placement, I hate to say,

doesn’t show much, just like the

stats. It really doesn’t show how

hard we worked and continuously

trained all year long…but let me

tell you it was a big jump in heart,

intensity, pride, and physicality

and it feels good,” said Stephanie

Salvi, senior Kinesiology major.

On Saturday, April 26, CSUMB

was defeated 13-5 by CSU

Bakersfield. Salvi scored three

goals for the Otters and Erin Lee

scored the other two. Goalie Jenna

Beer made eight saves against the

Roadrunners.

Senior Kinesiology major

Chelsea Laning said, “our team

was number one in goals per

game in conference play. That

just shows you how much talent

and improvement we had this

season.”

CSUMB was defeated in

triple overtime after they fought

against Sonoma State for four

solid quarters and two overtime

(OT) periods before Jenna Bole

of Sonoma State scored with 2:03

left, leading the Seawolves to a

9-8 win.

Laning scored four times,

including once in overtime to

put the Otters ahead, but Sonoma

scored in the first overtime period

as well, and they eventually

defeated CSUMB in sudden death

OT. Beer had 14 saves.

“I felt that the team did

awesome this past weekend.,” said

Laning. “We are tied for ninth in

the country and first place in our

conference. No one expected us to

win so we just had fun with it and

ended up keeping the score tied up

until the fourth quarter. That was

such an achievement in itself.”

“We showed everyone that we

know how to play and that the

Otters are something to think

about,” said Salvia.

With a look into next season,

Laning said “our offense is

really improving as a team.” She

explained that there are “more

shooters in the water and it was

great to see them figure it out

and enjoy that side of the game.

Our defense is also improving and

will continue to improve with the

amount of talented players that

will be returning next year. I only

see room for improvement with

the group that is left.”

The Otters finished the season

at 18-14.