2014 LBCC Women's Water Polo News

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Freshman Burdette Forsch led Long Beach with three goals in the playoff loss to Santa Barbara (Photo by Chris Ruiz)
Women’s Water Polo: Vikings’ season comes to an end with 9-5 regionals loss to Santa Barbara

Lack of depth finally caught up to the Long Beach City College women’s water polo team as the Vikings suffered a 9-5 loss to Santa Barbara City College in an opening-round game of the 2014 Southern California Regional Playoffs at Citrus College.

LBCC freshman Payton Ballard (Photo by Chris Ruiz)
Women's Water Polo: Long Beach gets No. 7 seed, face Santa Barbara at SoCal Regionals

The Long Beach City College women's water polo team, who recently finished third at the South Coast Conference Championships, will continue its postseason run as the Vikings are seeded seventh for the upcoming Southern California Regional Championships at Citrus College.

LBCC sophomore Adrienne Alaniz (Photo by Chris Ruiz)
Women's Water Polo: Long Beach bounces back with 13-6 win over Cerritos in SCC third-place game

The Long Beach City College women's water polo team came back from a semifinal loss to defeat Cerritos College 13-6 in Saturday's third-place game at the South Coast Conference Championship tournament at Mt. San Antonio College on Saturday.

Freshman Burdette Forsch scored six of her game-high eight goals in the first quarter vs. LA Trade-Tech (Photo by Chris Ruiz)
Women’s Water Polo: Long Beach wraps up SCC schedule with 21-4 rout of LA Trade-Tech

Freshman Burdette Forsch scored a game-high eight goals to help lead the Long Beach City College women’s water polo team to a 21-4 win over visiting Los Angeles Trade-Tech College on Wednesday’s in the Vikings’ final South Coast Conference game of the regular season.

The LBCC Women's Water Polo is 16-8 overall heading into its final two regular-season games on Wednesday (Photo by Chris Ruiz)
Women’s Water Polo: Vikings finish third at LBCC Battle at the Beach tournament

The Long Beach City College women’s water polo team went 3-1 over the weekend and defeated Orange Coast College 10-8 on Saturday in the third-place game of the 17th Annual truWest Battle at the Beach tournament.

Women's Water Polo: LBCC set to host 17th annual truWest Battle at the Beach (Updated with final results)
Women's Water Polo: LBCC set to host 17th annual truWest Battle at the Beach (Updated with final results)

Long Beach City College is set to host the 17th annual truWest Battle at the Beach women's water polo tournament this Friday and Saturday, October 24-25. This year's field features 21 teams, making it one of the largest community college water polo tournaments in the state. Games will be played at LBCC and nearby Cypress College.

Freshman Jessica Diaz led the Vikings with four goals in the win over El Camino (Photo by Chris Ruiz)
Women's Water Polo: Long Beach moves to 5-1 in conference play with pair of home wins

The Long Beach City College women’s water polo team picked up a pair of South Coast Conference wins at home on Wednesday, beating El Camino College 16-5 and East Los Angeles College 10-2. With the victories, Long Beach improved to 13-5 overall and 5-1 in conference play.

Freshman Lishtyeri Curiel scored for LBCC in the loss to Chaffey (Photo by Chris Ruiz)
Women’s Water Polo: Vikings suffer first loss, fall 7-2 to Chaffey

The Long Beach City College women’s water polo team had its five-game winning streak come to an end following its 7-2 South Coast Conference loss to the visiting Chaffey College Panthers on Wednesday.

Women's Water Polo: Vikings open conference play with 16-6 rout at Rio Hondo
Women's Water Polo: Vikings open conference play with 16-6 rout at Rio Hondo

The Long Beach City College women's water polo team continued its perfect start to the 2014 season as the squad moved to 5-0 on Wednesday. Freshman Burdette Forsch scored a game-high five goals to help lead the Vikings to a 16-6 win at Rio Hondo College in their South Coast Conference opener.

LBCC head coach Chris Oeding (far left) and the U.S. Women's Water Polo Senior National Team after winning gold at the FINA World Cup (Photo by Russell McKinnon)
Water Polo: Oeding, United States capture gold medal at FINA Women’s Water Polo World Cup

Long Beach City College water polo and swimming head coach Chris Oeding will return from Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia with a gold medal after helping lead the United States Water Polo Women’s Senior National Team to a 10-6 win over Australia in the championship final of the FINA World Cup on Sunday.