Saturday, November 2, 2019---USC Men's Water Polo Senior Day and Match vs Stanford
Trojan Candy arrived at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center about 45 minutes early just in time to get my favorite seat on the south side of the water polo pool. I saved three seats for my sister Patti Poon, my brother-in-law Dudley Poon and myself. Then I quickly walked downstairs to the pool. SID Darcy Couch let me take pictures of the Senior Day Celebration.
The first pictures I took were of the five posters of the Seniors.
The posters were of #12 Troy Furniss.
#7 Luka Karaman.
#6 Marin Dasic.
#10 Matt Maier.
Then the Senior Dads---Branimir Dasic, Bruce Furniss, Brian Slobodien, Tony Karaman, and Kurt Maier.
I was just starting to take a picture of each Senior family when the ceremony started abruptly. I did take this picture of the Furniss family.
Then I rushed over to take their picture with Troy at his poster.
Senior #7 Luka Karaman was introduced second.
This video shows the USC player introductions and hand slaps of the two teams.
The match started with USC's #9 Jacob Mercep winning the sprint. Then, at 7:28 Senior #6 Marin Dasic scored on a 6 on 5 to put USC ahead 1-0.
Trojan Candy was able to take a picture or video of some of the USC goals throughout the match. I just have to be lucky.
In the first period, USC's #18 Marcus Longton gets ready to shoot.
At 3:39 Marcus Longton scores to tie the match at 2-2!
Marcus Longton scored again at 1:15 to make the score USC 3 - Stanford 2.
The Spirit of Troy supported the team and kept USC spirits energetic.
During a timeout in the second period, the big screen featured our USC Seniors.
In the second period at 5:59, #6 Senior Marin Dasic scored to make the score USC 4 - Stanford 2.
USC Coach Marko Pintaric huddled with his Trojans.
Stanford Coach John Vargas also huddled with his Cardinals.
USC's Jacob Mercep scored at 3:37 to make the score USC 5 - Stanford 2.
Stanford scored the next two goals to close the score at halftime to USC 5 - Stanford 4.
In the third period, Stanford opened the scoring to tie the match at 5-5.
USC's #16 Chris Sturtevant scored two goals at 5:43 and 3:27 to put USC ahead at 7-5.
At 0:28.7 of the third period, USC's #8 Jake Ehrhardt scored his goal to make the score increase the lead to 8-5.
Stanford kept coming back. What proved to be the winning goal was scored at 2:12 in the fourth period by #6 Senior Marin Dasic.
The final score was USC 9 – Stanford 8.
My last video shows the end of the match and the hand slaps of the two teams.
Our team had a winning huddle on the pool deck.
Next, Trojan Candy ran down the stairs to the pool side. I saw Daily Trojan reporter Amanda Sturges interviewing our Goalie #1 Nic Porter. Nic had a phenomenal 20 saves!
Now, it was time to take more Senior pictures. Here is Sam Slobodien with friends.
Then Sam with his parents Brian and Joanne.
Here is Freshman #20 Chris Agliozzo posing with his dad Joe and his mother Jennifer.
Next, family and friends joined Sam Slobodien.
Parents finally helped Trojan Candy gather all five Seniors together for this picture. Marin Dasic, Troy Furniss, Sam Slobodien, Luka Karaman and Matt Maier.
Troy Furniss posed with his dad
Bruce (2/21/2014) and mom Sharon.
Then, the rest of Troy's family joined him.
Luka Karaman smiled for Trojan Candy by his poster.
Then, Luka's family joined him. Here is his mom Suzana, brother Marko, sister Dora, Luka and his dad Tony.
Both Marin Dasic's and Luka Karaman's families posed together by Marin's poster.
Next, Marin Dasic posed with Suzana and Tony Karaman.
Marin posed by his poster.
Then, Luka joined Marin for a picture.
Matt Maier's family posed with him at his poster. Here is Matt's mom Lisa, Matt, his dad Kurt and brother Corey.
Matt Maier posed by his poster.
Luka Karaman and Marin Dasic put their posters together for this next picture.
Their moms joined Luka and Marin. Here are Suzana and Luka Karaman and Anita and Marin Dasic.
The last Senior, Sam Slobodien, posed by his poster.
