Dragon Water Polo Teams Compete at Regional Competition

April 20, 2016

5:46 AM

Dragon Boys' and Girls'brWater Polo teams have their sights set on State … and they prove they're abrforce in the water. The teams were in action last weekend at the TISCA NorthbrRegional Water Polo Championships at the Carroll Aquatic Center. Twelve boys'brteams and 11 girls' teams competed for four state-qualifying slots to the TISCAbrState High School Water Polo Championships at Texas A&M later this month.

Here's a look at the LadybrDragons results:

Game #1, 18-1 win vsbrMacArthur HS

Semi-finals game #2, 12-3brwin vs Denton HS

Finals game #3, 14-3 winbrvs Denton Guyer

*North Region Champions,brState Qualified Team

All-Region Teambrselections for Southlake Carroll:

Girls:

Gabi Gervasi - MVP

Erin Weisert - 1st Team

Sophia Torres - 1st Team

Ana Warner - 1st Team

Katie Nedrow - 1st Team

Summer Myers - HonorablebrMention

Claire Poole - HonorablebrMention

Abby Cosenza - HonorablebrMention

Herebrare the Dragon boys' results:

Game #1, 10-0 win vsbrRockwall HS

Semi-Finals game #2, 7-8brovertime loss vs Flower Mound

game #3, 17-4 win vsbrDenton HS

3rd place game #4, 14-10brwin vs Denton Guyer

*3rd place Team NorthbrRegion, State Qualified Team

All-Region Teambrselections for Southlake Carroll

Boys:

Zach Lowery - 1st Team

Daniel Balint - 2nd Team

Nate Winkler - 2nd Team

Naysan Sahba - 2nd Team

Sean Murphy - 2ndbrTeam

Regional Girl's Coach ofbrthe Year was Southlake Carroll's Head Coach Joseph Yglesias. Dan Balint is CarrollbrWater Polo's assistant coach.

Griffin Rea of SouthlakebrCarroll also had an outstanding performance, including a game-tying shot with threebrseconds to go in the Flower Mound game to send it into overtime.

The Lady Dragons willbrtake a top-two state ranking; the boys' team a top-five state ranking goingbrinto the state championships. Sixteen boys' teams and 16 girls' teams frombrTexas' four regions will be represented at the Tisca State Water PolobrChampionships.

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