Oct. 9, 2014 RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Aggie junior Sean Grab scored three goals but it was Lancer center Nick Candau who came up with the biggest heroics, scoring with 2:12 left in overtime to left Cal Baptist to a 10-9 upset of 11th-ranked UC Davis in the Western Water Polo Association opener for each team Thursday night.

The Aggies fall to 7-9 for the year and open at 0-1 in WWPA play. The Lancers, receiving votes in Wednesday's national poll for a sixth straight week, improve to 12-7 overall with a 9-0 record at home and a 1-0 ledger in conference.

Six other UC Davis players chipped in one goal each. Freshman Spencer Creed posted 12 saves in front of the cage, three in the six minutes of overtime play. For CBU, senior Eric Carnohan and sophomore Brent Teraoka each converted hat tricks. Sophomore goalkeeper Joseph Moorman notched 14 stops, including five in the second quarter.

Cal Baptist took an immediate lead to start the contest, with Teraoka drawing first blood just 47 seconds in. UC Davis had three separate 6-on-5 opportunities but failed to convert before Cody Wetherbee made it 2-0 with his successful five-meter penalty shot at the 2:06 mark.

The Aggies finally thawed their cold offense after the next restart as Chris Richardson assisted Sean Grab for a natural goal, only to have Lancer sophomore Nick Candau restore the margin to two goals with his outside shot. UC Davis drew a power play with less than a minute in the quarter, then induced a five-meter foul as the exclusion clock wound down. Richardson connected on the penalty shot, trimming the CBU edge to 3-2 at the end of the first quarter.

Carnohan and Grab traded goals in the second quarter to maintain a one-goal margin. The Aggies again struggled to take advantage of their extra-man chances, although Moorman played a major part in protecting the cage for the Lancers in such instances. He came up with two huge saves in an extended UC Davis possession before freshman Talon Gay's third-chance shot slipped through the CBU goalie's hands for the equalizer. The two teams remained at 4-4 into the halftime break.

Moorman continued to block Aggie shots to start the third but the Lancers could not gain possession; Spencer Galli provided UC Davis with its first lead just a minute into the second half with a hard skip shot into the net. That edge held up for five minutes and survived three Cal Baptist power plays until Wetherbee equalized at 5-5 with just under two minutes remaining in the frame. With 1:16 left, after Moorman had just clipped a bomb by Grab, freshman Cory Laidig found Max Vigeant at two meters. The Aggie sophomore spun and backhanded in the go-ahead goal, lifting the Aggies to a 6-5 edge into the fourth quarter.

Each team scored in the first minutes of the fourth quarter, with Teroaka scoring soon after he won the initial sprint, and Grab completing his hat trick at two meters with 4:47 to go. UC Davis had a chance to extend the lead to two goals with 3:30 to go but Moorman continued to come up with big saves against the 6-on-5 offense. Carnohan eventually tied the game at 7-7 with his perimeter strike at 2:35, but Aggie senior center Teddy Nicholson restored his team's lead with his two-meter goal on the next possession. With 1:05 remaining, Carnohan delivered a long lob into the back of the net to tie the game for a fifth time. UC Davis managed two shots in the remainder of regulation but could not reclaim the lead. The two teams went to extra frames knotted up in an 8-8 impasse.

Junior Austin Beckwith put the Aggies on top when he converted a Richardson assist with 42 seconds left in the first overtime segment, but Teroaka matched him with a skip shot from the 3/4 position at the 0:23 mark. As time wound down, Nicholson drew an exclusion with a single second remaining on the clock. Beckwith won the next sprint to preserve the power play into the second overtime segment, but CBU defended on 5-man.

Candau put the Lancers back on top for the first time since the second quarter with his game-winning goal from the right side at 2:12, adding a field save on the other end to protect that 10-9 lead.

Neither team scored the rest of the way. The Lancers gained possession on a ball-under violation with 18 seconds remaining and proceeded to kill the clock.

Thursday's win marks the first-ever WWPA win for Cal Baptist since joining the conference last season.

UC Davis heads westward to UCLA to compete in the 16-team SoCal Invitational. The Aggies open against No. 5 Long Beach State at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday.

No. 11 UC Davis (7-9, 0-1)	2	2	2	2	1	0	-	9
Cal Baptist (12-7, 1-0)	3	1	1	3	1	1	-	10

GOALS - UC Davis: Sean Grab 3, Chris Richardson 1, Talon Gay 1, Spencer Galli 1, Max Vigeant 1, Teddy Nicholson 1, Austin Beckwith 1. CBU: Brent Teraoka 3, Eric Carnohan 3, Cody Wetherbee 2, Nick Candau 2.

GOALIE SAVES - UC Davis: Spencer Creed 12 (38:00). CBU: Joseph Moorman 14 (38:00).