Sept. 26, 2001

Berkeley - Cal men's water polo pulled off a 4th overtime victory today over the visiting UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, winning on a Joe Kaiser goal by a mark of 7-6 in Berkeley.

Kaiser, who entered the game as Cal's leading scorer with four goals against Pacific two weeks ago, drilled the game winner past UCSB's Trevor Spence after a quick steal with 1:08 remaining in the 4th overtime period. In water polo, overtime is sudden death begining with the 3rd overtime period.

Cal jumped off to an early lead, 1-0, on a backhanded shot by senior two-meter man Mike West. The Gauchos and the Bears would trade goals for the rest of the period, and Cal ended the period in the lead 3-2.

The Gauchos put together two goals by Patrick Tremain and Tom Coughlan in the second and held Cal scoreles until the third. Spence Dorin broke the Bears' scoring freeze and Chris Lathrop put away a goal on a breakaway late in the period, and UCSB and Cal entered the 4th period knoted up at 5. Sophomore Tim Kates, who came in at the beginning of the second half, had four saves on the period.

Neither team would score in the 4th period or the firt overtime. Mark Welch scored for UCSB at the beginning of the second overtime period, but it was quickly answered by Cal, with West's third goal on the day, forcing the fourth overtime period.

Kates, who played nearly 25 minutes despite entering the game in the third period, led all goalies with 9 saves. For UCSB, goalie Spence had 4 saves. Joey Pacelli and Coughlan had two goals apiece. Game summary

       1   2   3   4   1OT   2OT   3OT   4OT   Total
UCSB   2   2   1   0    0     1     0     0      6
CAL    3   0   2   0    0     1     0     1      7
*Kaiser scored winning goal with 1:08 remaining in 4OT.

GOALS
CAL-  West 3, Kaiser 2, Dorin 1, Lathrop 1.
UCSB- Coughlan 2, Pacelli 2, Treman 1, Welch 1.

SAVES
CAL-  Kates 9, Bernstein 4.
UCSB- Spence 4.