UCI Olympic Central

Final Statistics

LONDON --- UC Irvine alum Ryan Bailey scored three goals as the U.S. Olympic men's water polo team earned a hard-fought, 10-8 win over Romania in group play Tuesday.

Bailey drew the Americans even at 5-5 on an extra-man goal with 5:58 left in the third quarter and he put the U.S. ahead for good at 6-5 on another power-play score with 1:56 remaining in the third.

He netted his third goal of the game with 50 seconds left in the fourth period to give Team USA a three-goal cushion at the time.

Peter Varellas also scored three goals for the U.S. and Adam Wright added two.  Cosmin Radu led Romania with a game-high four goals.

The U.S. next faces Great Britain Thursday at 10:20 a.m. (PT).  The Americans and Serbia are currently tied atop Group B with 2-0 records and will face each other Saturday at 11:40 a.m. (PT).  Team USA will close out group play next Monday against Hungary at 7:30 a.m. (PT).

Bailey, a four-time All-American at UCI and 1998 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Year, is one of the first two male athletes (along with Tony Azevedo) in USA Water Polo history to compete in four Olympics. UCI alum Jeff Powers is making his third appearance in the Olympics and Tim Hutten his second. They were members of the 2008 American squad that won silver in Beijing.

In Tuesday's win over Romania, Powers had three shot attempts in 18 minutes of action and Hutten one shot in six-plus minutes.

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