Bucknell's Kinney Natatorium the Site of Saturday's Women's Water Polo Southern Championships
April 17, 2008
Southern Championships Schedule & Results LEWISBURG, Pa. - The Bucknell women's water polo team and Kinney Natatorium will host the Southern Championships this Saturday, April 19. The one-day, four-team tournament will feature No. 20 Bucknell, Princeton, Maryland and George Washington. The Bison are the top seed after a regular season in which they won a program-record 24 games and went 5-1 in conference play. Play begins Saturday morning at 9 a.m. with Bucknell hosting George Washington. The championship is slated for 6 p.m. on a day full of home Bison athletic events. The Bison women's rowing, women's lacrosse, men's and women's track and field, softball, baseball and men's lacrosse teams will be competing at home along with the women's water polo squad. Bucknell Women's Water Polo Notebook (24-7, 5-1 CWPA) • Bucknell broke into the national rankings once again on Wednesday when it showed up tied for 20th with Brown. The Bison have been ranked as high as No. 19 this year. • Bucknell is looking for its first-ever Southern Championships title. The best the Bison have finished at the Southern Championships is second in 2005. Bucknell has placed among the top four each of the last four years after finishing better than fifth once in the first five years of the program's existence. • Bucknell has lost just three times since March 13. All three of those losses have come by one goal. The largest deficit the Bison have lost by this year is five (13-8) to then-No. 6 San Diego State.
• Bucknell has not lost more than two games in a row at any point this season. • The last time the Southern Championships were held at Kinney Natatorium was 2005. The Bison defeated George Washington (4-2) and Maryland (10-2) before falling to Princeton (8-3) in the championship game. • Bucknell is 36-10 all-time at Kinney Natatorium and 7-0 at home this year. The Bison have won 12 of their last 13 contests at Kinney. • Bucknell is 2-5 against ranked foes this season. It faced 11 ranked opponents in 2007. • This weekend's Southern Championships will determine two automatic berths into next weekend's Eastern Championship. The top two teams in the Southern, Northern and Western Championships earn automatic berths into Easterns, while two additional squads will be awarded at-large berths. • Freshman Kandis Canonica is on the verge of breaking the Bucknell single-season points record. She enters the weekend with 99 points, four shy of Meagan Gins' record of 103 she set in 2006. With one point, Canonica will become the sixth member of the current Bison squad with at least 100 career points. • Junior Aubrey Rowe could break the Bison single-season steals record this weekend. She had 13 in three games last week to bring her team-high total to 74. Paige Cull holds the seven-year-old record with 80 steals. Career Record Watch Season Record Watch Bucknell vs. Possible Weekend Opponents 2008 Bucknell Weekly Honors Up Next Women's Water Polo Southern Championships Schedule |
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