2017 Collegiate Water Polo Association Championship Schedule & Results
No. 25 Brown University-vs.-George Washington University Scoresheet
No. 25 Brown University-vs.-George Washington University FOSH Boxscore
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Marisa Kolokotronis (Sr., Sacramento, Calif./St. Francis) posted a hat-trick to claim Player of the Game honors as the No. 25-ranked Bears of Brown University clipped George Washington University, 11-7, to earn a spot in the 2017 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Championship Seventh Place game at Indiana University’s Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.
Courtesy the win, Brown (20-10, 4-7 CWPA) picks up its 20th victory of the season and advances to a Seventh Place game match-up at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 30, against the winner of a consolation game pitting No. 16/host Indiana and first-year program Saint Francis University. A match-up versus the Hoosiers will mark the third clash of the year between the two programs as Brown fell to Indiana by scores of 9-5 (February 5 at Brown) and 10-6 (April 14 at Brown) at home in Providence, R.I. The Bears are 1-0 against Saint Francis after topping the Red Flash 9-3 in Rhode Island on April 15.
In the history of the championship, Brown has previously finished first (2001), second (2003), fourth (2004, 2009, 2012), fifth (2000, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015), sixth (2002, 2010), seventh (2005, 2016) and ninth (2011) at the CWPA Championship.
In a game that featured 22 ejections, an act of misconduct, a yellow card and a red card, the two teams slugged it out on the scoreboard to combine for 18 goals.
The game swung back-and-forth in the first quarter prior to a four-score outburst by the Bears giving Brown the lead for good over George Washington (13-19, 1-10 CWPA).
Shannon Crowley (Sr., Seal Beach, Calif./Los Alamitos) landed the inaugural scoring blow in the game by ripping home a shot 30 seconds into the game to provide the Bears an early 1-0 lead. The margin last under two minutes until Scarlett Hallahan (Jr., San Diego, Calif./La Jolla) knotted the game at one-all with her own unassisted even-strength strike with 5:47 on the clock. However, a five-meter shot by Crowley courtesy a penalty to GW’s Erin McGeoy (Jr., Santa Barbara, Calif./Santa Barbara) returned the Bears to the lead 14 seconds later at 5:33 to make it a 2-1 game at the conclusion of the frame.
Hallahan responded again midway through the second quarter to pull the Colonials even as she finished a pass from Maddy Johnson (Jr., Yorba Linda, Calif./Rosary) with 4:28 until halftime. Once again Brown regained the lead as Jessica Heilman (Jr., Menlo Park, Calif./Menlo Atherton) landed a counterstrike at 2:52 to make it 3-2 in favor of the Bears, but Hallahan found Ally Jochim (Fr., Laguna Beach, Calif./Laguna Beach) with an assist at 2:06 to rebalance the scoreboard at three-all.
Hallahan, who factored in all four of George Washington’s goals in the first half, put her team in front for the first and only time as she buried a feed from Kira Bruno (Fr., La Jolla, Calif./La Jolla) on an advantage chance with 46 seconds remaining in the second quarter to permit the Colonials to enter halftime with a 4-3 lead.
The margin did not survive the inaugural minute of the third quarter as Kolokotronis and McKenna Miller (So., Danville, Calif./Monte Vista) whirled in back-to-back tallies at 7:25 and 7:05, respectively, to return the lead to Brown at 5-4 for good.
Miller (4:06, man-up) and Heilman (3:23, even-strength) expanded the spread to 7-4 prior to the close of the quarter as Brown built a three-goal lead and held a comfortable margin going into the final period of play.
For George Washington being outscored 4-0 in the third quarter was damaging, but losing Hallahan to her third ejection at 4:27 to set up Millers’s advantage goal would prove to be potentially more costly in the wake of her first half performance.
Short Hallahan, the Colonials attempted to rally back in the third quarter as back-to-back markers by Johnson (6:29, even-strength) and Jacqueline Bywater (Jr., Riverside, Calif./Riverside Poly) (5:46) retracted the lead down to 7-6.
However, Brown came back to grab a four-goal lead prior to the conclusion of the third quarter as Maigrie McDougal (So., Sacramento, Calif./Rio Americano) scored off an assist from Crowley (4:07) and connected on an unassisted goal (3:00) to enlarge the margin to 9-6. The lead continued to expand as Kolokotronis finished a pass from Crowley for a power-play score at 2:06 of the third quarter before adding another off a pass from McDougal with 5:39 on the fourth quarter clock to make it an 11-6 game.
George Washington, which wraps-up the tournament in Ninth Place as the Colonials to continue a string of Seventh-to-10th Place marks with prior results of seventh (2003), eighth (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016), ninth (2012) and 10th (2000), concluded the scoring at the 3:44 mark when Bruno notched an unassisted strike for the 11-7 final.
For Brown, Heilman, Crowley, McDougal and Miller each put away pairs of shots to join with Kolokotronis in recording multi-goal games. Marisol Dakan (Jr., Pasadena, Calif./La Salle) earned the victory with nine saves between the pipes.
Hallahan led GW in scoring with a hat-trick, with Jochim, Bywater, Bruno and Johnson each notching solo markers. Katherine Moeller (So., Northford, Conn./Choate Rosemary Hall) took the loss with eight saves.
| Teams | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | — | Final |
| George Washington University (13-19, 1-10 CWPA) |
4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 7 |
| No. 25 Brown University (20-10, 4-7 CWPA) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | — | 11 |
Brown Goals: Marisa Kolokotronis (3); Jessica Heilman (2); Shannon Crowley (2); Maigrie McDougal (2); McKenna Miller (2)
George Washington Goals: Scarlett Hallahan (3); Ally Jochim; Jacqueline Bywater; Kira Bruno; Maddy Johnson
Saves: Brown – Marisol Dakan (9) ; George Washington – Katherine Moeller (8)
Exclusions: Brown – 11 ; George Washington – 11
Advantage Opportunities: Brown – 4-for-11 ; George Washington – 4-for-11
Sprints: Brown – 3-for-4 (1st, 3rd, 4th) ; George Washington – 1-for-4 (2nd)
Cards: YC – Brown (Head coach Felix Mercado, 5:53 left in 3rd Quarter); RC – Brown (Head coach Felix Mercado, 52 seconds left in 3rd Quarter)
Misconducts: Brown – Carmen Rosas (4:54 left in 1st Quarter)
Officials: JR Perez, Jamie Wolff
George Washington University’s Maddy Johnson looks to shoot as Brown University’s Marisa Kolokotronis defends
George Washington University’s Maggie Ball defends against Brown University’s Shannon Crowley
