BERKELEY – UC Davis, the champion of the WWPA, traveled to Berkeley to take on No. 6-ranked Pacific at the 2022 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship hosted by UC Berkeley. The Tigers outscored the Aggies by three in the third quarter en route to an 11-7 victory.
In the first quarter, the Aggies would get on the scoreboard first on a
Logan Anderson strike just 19 seconds into the match. The Tigers would score the next two goals on Jeremie Cote tallies to take a 2-1 lead with 4:33 left in the quarter. The Aggies tied the score at 2-2 on an
Aleix Aznar Beltran shot with 2:15 left in the quarter. The Tigers scored the final goal of the quarter and led 3-2 after one quarter.
In the second quarter, the Aggies would score first on a Beltran strike with 6:43 left. The Tigers would score two in the quarter to extend their lead to 5-3 at halftime.
In the third quarter, the Tigers would score the first four goals of the quarter to take their largest lead of the match, at six, at 9-3.
Leo Giessmann would score the Aggies' lone goal of the quarter as the Tigers led 9-4 at the end of the third.
In the fourth quarter, the two teams would trade goals back and forth. Anderson would score with 5:31 left to trim the Tigers' lead to 10-5 and
Colin Nicholls would score with 1:18 to make the score 11-6.
Andrew Hitchcock would score with 47 seconds left in the match for the match's final tally.
The Tigers outshot the Aggies 36-35. The Aggies won three of the four sprints that occurred.
The Aggies conclude their season with a 19-8 record overall and won their second consecutive WWPA championship.