Men’s Water Polo: No. 1 Vikings cruise to 28-8 win over LA Trade-Tech in regular-season finale

Freshmen Max Taylor (Las Vegas, NV) and Jack Sherratt (Servite HS) both scored four goals each in a 28-8 Long Beach City College men's water polo rout of visiting Los Angeles Trade-Tech College on Wednesday at LBCC.

The defending state champion and state's top-ranked Vikings have won 14 games in a row and are 18-2 overall. Long Beach will take a 4-0 conference record into next weekend's (Nov. 6-8) South Coast Conference Championships at Mt. San Antonio College.

On Wednesday, Long Beach scored the game's first five goals on its way to a 7-1 lead after the first quarter. The Vikings blew the game in the second, outscoring the Beavers by an 11-4 margin.

Coaches Chris Oeding and David Kasa got scoring from 11 different Vikings in the win. Freshman Blake Cole added three goals while sophomores Blake Grove (Newport Harbor HS), Jack Ellinthorpe (Granite Bay, CA), and Damian Madrigal (Servite HS), freshmen Ryan Dionne (Yorba Linda HS), Brendan Gruneisen (Wilson HS), Frankie Cervantes (Granite Bay HS), and Connor Shuey (Albuquerque, NM) all scored twice.