Carlos Duran

@ocvarsity @ocvarsityguy USA Water polo should really look at the culture it is brewing. This should never happen.

Water polo abuse allegations detailed in civil suit filed against Harvard-Westlake trib.al/6J6rtpN

COACHES CORNER: It’s postseason time for the JSerra Girls Water Polo team, as the Lions will kick off the CIF-SS Open Division Playoffs on Wednesday with a road showdown against defending champion Oaks Christian in Westlake Village. Girls Water Polo Head Coach Ethan Damato discusses the Lions’ growth and strong play to close out the regular season (including a memorable comeback against one of their upcoming playoff opponents), the team’s mentality heading into the postseason, and starting the playoffs against the defending champs.

The JSerra Girls Water Polo team and the visiting Foothill Knights went toe-to-toe in a back-and-forth nonleague thriller on Tuesday, with the Knights slipping past the Lions 9-8 in golden goal overtime at JSerra Catholic High School. JSerra is now 8-3 on the season. Behind two goals from senior Kamryn McCord and a goal apiece from senior Sloane Paulson and sophomore Aubrey Cardoza, the Lions held a 4-3 lead after the first period. The Knights responded with two goals in the second period to take a 5-4 halftime, but the Lions answered in the third period, as freshman Dani Ku found the back of the net twice to give JSerra a 6-5 lead. Senior goalie Sayre Duran was sensational in the period, producing six of her 11 total saves in the quarter to help the Lions maintain their lead. Senior Maddie Weston put the Lions ahead 7-5 with her lone score of the contest with 5:35 remaining, but the Knights battled back and scored the game-tying goal with one second remaining in regulation to send the game into overtime tied at 7-7. Paulson tallied her second goal in the first overtime period, but the Knights countered with the equalizer with 41 seconds remaining. The game stayed tied 8-8 heading into golden goal overtime, where Foothill produced the game-winner with six seconds remaining in the first sudden death period.

@ocvarsityguy @JSerraAthletics @JSGirlsBBall Well done ladies. #lionnation

👀New #1 girls basketball team in OC? ⁦@JSerraAthletics⁩ ⁦@JSGirlsBBall⁩ Next rankings out Tuesday!

@ocvarsityguy What happened to Kirra?

End of 1st: Newport 3, MD 2, Kirra Pantaleon not playing for Monarchs

We are 7-2 headed to winter break. Let’s go lions!!! Took one to the face and check out my laser for the score. Not too bad for a goalie!! #senioryear #class2026 #lionnation

@espn Notre Dame always sucks and always will. So lame not to play. Bunch of spoiled babies.

Breaking: Notre Dame is withdrawing its name from consideration for a bowl game and will not play again this season. The decision comes after the Fighting Irish did not make the 12-team CFP.

@ocvarsityguy Let’s go!!!

End 1st; JSerra 6, OLu 0, Tessa Russell pick-6

@ocvarsityguy Wow!! Way to get back up and keep fighting.

Mater Dei leads 36-33, 22 sec left 3rd, PAT fail

@ocvarsityguy @JSerraAthletics @USAWP #lionnation

Breaking girls water polo: JSerra has hired Ethan Damato as its new coach, school principal Eric Stroupe confirms Major coaching hire for the Trinity League school, Damato guided Laguna Beach into a SoCal power @JSerraAthletics @USAWP

@ocvarsityguy Wow. Great game

Laguna Beach and San Clemente going sudden-death OT! Tied 9-9

@ocvarsityguy Wow

We’re going double sudden death OT! 11-11

@ocvarsityguy Man great win for oaks and at MD

Girls water polo: Cheers from the stands at OCC as it’s someone announces that Oaks Christian upsets Mater Dei 12-11, that’s a big-time stunner

Let’s go girls. It’s going to be a tough road game.

Nice win girls!!!

Let’s go lions. CIF next

Let’s go!!!

A tightly contested nonleague battle in the pool between the JSerra Girls Water Polo team and Foothill saw the Knights pull out a 7-4 victory on Saturday at Foothill High School in Santa Ana. Foothill forged an early 2-0 lead in the first period, but JSerra battled back. Junior Sayre Duran scored the Lions’ first goal of the game at the mark of the period with shot the deflected off the Knights goalie and into the back of the net. After the Knights re-established a two-goal lead, junior Maddie Weston drew a penalty, and fellow junior Kamryn McCord converted the five-meter penalty shot with left in the period to bring the Lions back within a goal. Duran supplied the game-equalizer in spectacular fashion at the halftime buzzer, as she received a pass from sophomore Cece Schneider and rocketed a shot from the right side of the pool that twisted just past the right hand of the Knights goalie and into the upper far post corner of the goal. Foothill seized momentum with two goals in a 22-second span in the third period and increased the lead with a goal 34 seconds into the fourth period. Junior Sloane Paulson tallied the final score of the game for the Lions in the fourth period. JSerra is now 11-3 overall.

@ocvarsityguy They all know where everyone is going to be and they all know where they should be. Brenda rules

👀End of 3rd OLu 10 CdM 3, Lancers’ counterattack just different