HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Logan Kraft (Pearland, Texas) scored five times – including a first quarter hat-trick – to net Player of the Game accolades as Texas Division Champion/No. 7-ranked Texas A&M University tamed the Missouri Valley Champion Cyclones of Iowa State University, 18-7, in the opening round of the 2026 Men’s National Collegiate Club Championship hosted by the University of Alabama and the Huntsville Sports Commission at the Huntsville Aquatics Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
The victory advances the Aggies to a 12:30 p.m. Central quarterfinal on Saturday, November 7, versus the victor of another first round game matching Rocky Mountain Division runner-up the University of Colorado and Northwest Division Champion/No. 11 the University of Oregon.
Iowa State – which will take on the fallen from the Colorado-Oregon game at 7:30 p.m. later this evening in a consolation game – never led versus Texas A&M as the Aggies opened up a 2-0 margin with 4:44 left in the first quarter and never looked back to post 4-1, 7-2 and 12-3 scoreboard advantages at the conclusion of the first, second and third quarters, respectively.
The eight-time Texas Division Champions (2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2024, 2025, 2026) received three goals from Sebastian Warren (Houston, Texas) along with pairs of tallies by Leyton Kraft (Pearland, Texas), Petar Simovic (Montenegro) and Mason Mote (Cypress, Texas) to accompany solo strikes by Korban Tubbs (San Antonio, Texas), Elijah Hernandez (Denton, Texas), Patricio Romero (Mission, Texas) and Travis Thames (Pearland, Texas).
Goalkeeper John Pawsat (Houston, Texas) backstopped the Aggies’ defense with three saves to earn the victory in cage.
Tovi Kharpak (So., Mundelein, Ill.) scored three times to accompany pairs of markers by Jorge Stewart Davila (Fr., Frisco, Texas) and Maxwell Moore (Fr., Ballwin, Mo.) to account for Iowa State’s offense. Lucas Adell (Fr., Aurora, Ill.) made seven saves in cage to suffer the loss.
