CdM Aquatics wins Turbo Cup

The CdM Aquatics 14U girls' water polo team won the Turbo Orange County Cup gold division championship game Sunday.

CdM defeated Riverside WPC, 8-4, in the title match. The eighth annual Turbo OC Cup was played at pools around Orange County and included boys' and girls' teams at the 10U, 12U, and 14U age-group levels.

CdM won two games on Saturday and one on Sunday morning to advance to the final. In Saturday's opening match CdM defeated Los Alamitos, 14-3. In the second game, the CdM girls beat Rose Bowl "B" 14-6 to advance to Sunday morning's semifinal match against the Trojan WP Club. In a well-played game, CdM outscored the Trojan girls, 10-5.

Riverside beat South Coast WP, Anteater WPC and VC Premier on its way to the final before falling to CdM.

Matilda Bress, Eliza Britt, Heather Feibleman, Shannon Frome, Georgina Laube, Grace Morgan, Kelly Morgan, Maddie Musselman, Sammie Pratt, Heidi Ritner, Emily Ritner and Bridget Storm all contributed to the weekend victories.

The CdM Aquatics girls' water polo club practices and plays games at the Marian Bergeson Aquatics Complex on the campus of Corona del Mar High.

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Anteater takes first and third

The Newport Beach-based Anteater Water Polo Club's 10-and-under boys' group jumped up a division to 12U silver and grabbed the first-place blue-ribbon medals in the Turbo Orange County Cup. The Anteater 8- and 9-year-olds took third place in the 10U coed gold division.

The trip to winning the U12 silver boys' division included a 22-3 victory over tournament host Kahuna Blue of Irvine, a 20-2 win against Newport White, a 17-4 win over South Bay and a 9-5 championship victory over Laguna in the final.

What was initially planned as a tune-up training run for the upcoming Junior Olympics this summer, turned into a pleasant drive to the gold medals for this group playing up an age-group division.

Coached by Jesse Briggs and Marc Hunt, the roster included Triton Scott, Shane Papa, Warren Loth, Connor McManigal, Cole Fisher, Brannon Syler, Kaveh Moadelli, Michael Paduano, Makana Sanita, Wyatt Genc, Spencer Wardwell and Caden Strauss.