Protection wins championships.
The Cleveland Excessive boys water polo staff proved that axiom true as soon as once more, limiting defending champion Palisades to 1 objective within the remaining three quarters of a 15-4 victory within the Metropolis Part Open Division remaining Wednesday evening at Valley School.
Arman Tarakhchyan netted seven objectives whereas Arthur Petrosian added 4 for the No. 2-seeded Cavaliers (17-9), who gained their third Metropolis title and second in a row, having earned the inaugural Division I crown final season.
Cleveland ended Palisades’ string of 11 straight part titles and snapped the Dolphins’ streak of 43 straight Metropolis playoff victories. The final time Palisades had misplaced a Metropolis playoff contest was in 2011 when it fell to Cleveland 14-3 within the quarterfinals.
Arthur Petrosian shoots for the final of his 4 objectives in opposition to Palisades.
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“Our goal Allen McWeeny played a huge part in this — he came up with some huge saves — but from the second the game started we said we’re gonna figure out the guys they have and how to defend them,” Tarakhchyan mentioned. “We knew about Charlie [Speiser] and had someone on him at all times. It was really just about slowing things down and playing Cleveland water polo.”
Scoring as soon as every for the Cavaliers had been Charlie Rinsky, Matias Ramirez and Gregory Dzhigneyan. Charlie Speiser and Hudson Mirzadeh scored twice apiece for the top-seeded Dolphins (12-17), who downed Cleveland within the finals twice throughout its dynastic run, prevailing 16-9 in 2019 and 22-7 in 2021.
The rating was tied 3-3 after the primary quarter, however the Cavaliers’ suffocating protection started to take maintain within the second quarter as Cleveland scored thrice to take a 6-2 lead into halftime. Petrosian scored twice on breakouts within the final 35 seconds of the third quarter to provide Cleveland a commanding seven-goal lead.
“On a lot of our drives if I get a mismatch I call for the ball,” added Tarakhchyan, who transformed two of his three five-meter possibilities. “Our mindset is that its zero-zero after every quarter. We always play like we just started the game and never take our foot off the gas.”
Earlier, Granada Hills beat crosstown rival Kennedy 21-10 to win the Division I title — its first boys water polo title at school historical past.
Granada Hills’ Justin Villatoro scores in opposition to Kennedy within the Division I remaining.
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Gor Mesropian led the best way with 5 objectives, Jason Bowden and Sebastian Villagrana had 4 apiece and One Abramian, Justin Villatoro, Levon Iochyan and Ethan Kilimnik every added two for the top-seeded Highlanders, who scored seven instances within the first quarter and scored 4 straight objectives to start the second half.
Andrew Joyce scored 5 objectives and Jorge Aguilar Gomez added three for the third-seeded Golden Cougars.
