The Upper Arlington boys and girls water polo teams used nearly identical formulas to sweep the state championships for the second consecutive year.
In the girls game, Naomi Maurer’s three goals and two each from Emmy Campbell and Kiersten Schantz powered UA to its fourth title in a row, eighth in 10 years and 20th overall. Ella Dean had 13 saves.
The Bears might have had an even larger lead early had four shots not clanged off the crossbar in the first. “I’ve told the girls all season that they have a green light at all teams to make a wise decision,” said first-year UA coach Ashley Neri, who won championships as a Bears player in 2006 and 2008. “I never allow them to not take a shot. The more shots they take, the more likely it is they’ll score.”
The Bears, who finished 32-2, maintained the shutout until halfway through the third quarter and allowed only one goal for the third time this season. UA went 3-0 against the Mavericks, winning those games by a combined score of 32-8, after beating them 9-5 in last year’s final. “We just focused on keeping our hips up and keeping safe,” the Bears’ Ceci Croci said. “In a game like this, we figured were going to call just about anything. We had to play safe and play smart. They had a lot of strong sets and good players. What we did worked.”On the girls side, Thomas Worthington lost the third-place game 11-9 to Cincinnati Sycamore. Worthington Kilbourne defeated Mason 11-6 to finish fifth.
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