Tuesday, 28 June 2016

11 days to go: #ThrowbackTuesday Pan Pacs 2014 under 18 women's final

With 11 days to go until the largest-ever Pan Pacific Youth Water Polo Festival, we are rewinding the clock to the Pan Pacs 2014 under 18 women's final between Corona del Mar and Australia Born '98s!


AUS Gold's Danielle Morrissey opened the scoring with an outside shot from a 6 on 5 play, out-faking the CDM goalkeeper Heidi Ritner. Two exclusions against CDM led to no goals from the Aussies, with some clear finals-nerves apparent. 

Corona Del Mar's Eliza Britt scored one for CDM in the 2nd quarter to equalise, from a man-up play. Grace Morgan from CDM put two goals to her name including one penalty. Half-time score 1-3 to CDM.


Britt scored another for CDM early in the third quarter to push her team's lead out to three. 3 exclusions and a time-out led to no more goals for the third quarter - CDM sitting ahead 1-4.
Missed shots and poor passing from the Australians meant that CDM had the chance to head down the pool on counter-attack - and earned another penalty. Morgan converted again to extend her team's lead to four with 4 minutes left to play.


A goal from Aussie Gold's Emma Jones gave them a whiff, but wise movements from CDM forced Lara Zimmerman to give away a penalty - letting Gracie Morgan score her fourth for the match.
Australia's Tess Jenkins had the final say, scoring an outside shot with 7 seconds left on the clock.
CDM waited out the time, and then jumped in the pool to celebrate their 3-6 victory over the Australian Gold Born '98s.


Eliza Britt was named Most Valuable Player after scoring two goals in the final!

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