GOLETA — For the second time this season, a Corona del Mar High girls' water polo game came down to a fraction of a second at the end of regulation.
Dos Pueblos senior Kodi Hill, who had led the Chargers' stirring second-half rally, was a split-second away from ending it all Saturday. Not just the game, but the Sea Kings' season.
She was a blink of the eye from shocking top-seeded CdM and keeping alive Dos Pueblos' quest for a fourth straight CIF Southern Section Division 1 title. But, in a tie game, Hill's goal into the left corner of the net at the end of regulation was waved off. The referees ruled she had shot it just after the buzzer.
For that brief moment, CdM's players thought their season could have ended. It stunned the player who provided the first split-second moment, when she scored full-court at the end of the Battle of the Bay.