No. 7 UC Irvine Edged by No. 5 Pepperdine in Overtime Thriller

Nov. 15, 2009

IRVINE, Calif. --- Pepperdine's Christian Cardey's goal with 19 seconds remaining in the fifth overtime period lifted the fifth-ranked Waves to a 15-14 win over the No. 10 Anteaters Sunday at Anteater Pool. The loss dropped UCI to 15-10 (3-4 MPSF) overall while Pepperdine climbed to 11-10 overall and 3-4 in conference action.

Pepperdine took a 3-1 lead in the first quarter on a goal by J.P. MacDonell but the Anteaters cut the lead to one at 4-3 on a shot by Tom Kruip at the 1:20 mark.

A goal by Clayton Snyder put the Waves up by two in the second quarter but Brandon Johnson and Kyle Baxter scored back-to-back goals as UCI pulled even at 5-5 with 4:40 remaining in the quarter. Griffin Lerman's shot put the Anteaters ahead at the 2:59 mark and Greg Enloe buried a shot with 2:18 remaining to give UCI a two-goal lead at 7-5. Each team added a goal as UCI took an 8-6 halftime lead.

The Waves rallied with a pair of goals midway through the third quarter to pull to within one on MacDonell's penalty shot and the senior tied the game at 10-10 with a goal at 6:48 in the fourth. Pepperdine claimed a 13-12 lead in with 52 seconds remaining in regulation on a goal by Danny White but Kyle Baxter's goal with one second remaining would force overtime.

UCI took the first lead at 14-13 in the extra period on a Johnson goal but Cardey answered with 1:46 in the second overtime.

UCI's Matt Johnson had 15 saves for UCI while Tommy O'Connell registered 14 saves for the Waves.

Pepperdine 15, UC Irvine 14

       1-2-3-4  OT1  OT2  OT3  OT4  OT5
PEP    4-2-3-4    0      1     0      0      1
UCI    3-5-2-3    1      0     0      0      0

UCI goals: Brandon Johnson 4, Kyle Baxter 3, Tom Kruip 2, Griffin Lerman 2, Greg Enloe 2, Cole Bielskis

PEP goals: J.P. McDonnell, 5, Christian Cardey 3, Brett Auer, 2 Danny White 2, Clayton Snyder 2, Travis Gough

Saves: Matt Johnson 15, Tommy O'Connell 14