FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, September 28, 2000
Contact: Carlton White - Assistant SID/410-516-0638
JHU WATER POLO TAPPED AT FOURTH IN THE CWPA POLLS
BALTIMORE, MD -- The Johns Hopkins men's water polo team remained in fourth place in the latest Collegiate Water Polo Association Division III Top 10 poll released on Wednesday, September 27. The Blue Jays, despite going 1-4 last weekend playing primarily against Division I opponents, picked up 34 points in the voting. JHU is 4-9 overall after defeating George Washington, 11-7, in D.C. on Wednesday evening.
Senior All-American Zaman Mirzadeh (Davis, CA/Davis) leads all JHU scorers with 33 goals. Sophomore Ryan Ford (Almaden, CA/Leland) follows with 19, and freshman Geoffrey McCann (Menlo Park, CA/St. Francis) has 17 goals. Junior tri-captain Mark McCoy (Santa Barbara, CA/Dos Pueblos) (9), sophomore Paul Ramaley (Greenwich, CT/Greenwich) (5), freshman Daniel Herr (Encino, CA/Harvard-Westlake) (3), and Mark McGory (Sr., Danville, CA/San Ramon) (2) have all scored goals. Parker Emmott (Fr., Hillsborough, CA/Menlo), tri-captain Adam Kinsey (Sr., Milford, OH/Milford) and Anuj Mittal, round out the list of scorers for Hopkins with one each.
The Blue Jays host the Eastern Division III Tournament on Saturday and Sunday. Schools participating in the event include Grove City College, Penn State Behrend, Washington & Jefferson, and Villanova. Saturday's matches begin at 10:00 a.m. Johns Hopkins faces Grove City at 2:00 p.m. and tackles Washington & Jefferson at 8:30 p.m. Sunday's contests start at 9:30 a.m. with the Blue Jays against Penn State Behrend. Sunday's final game has Johns Hopkins battling Villanova at 2:00 p.m.
Collegiate Water Polo Association (D III)
|
Rank |
Team |
Previous Rank |
Points |
|
1. |
University of La Verne |
1 |
50 |
|
2. |
University of Redlands |
2 |
45 |
|
3. |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
3 |
36 |
|
4. |
Johns Hopkins University |
4 |
34 |
|
5. |
MIT |
5 |
30 |
|
6. |
Whittier College |
6 |
26 |
|
7. |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges |
7 |
22 |
|
8. |
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges |
8 |
14 |
|
9. |
Chapman University |
9 |
11 |
|
10. |
Washington & Jefferson College |
NR |
3 |
