IRVINE, Calif. --- UC Irvine was stunned by a seven-goal barrage from top-ranked UCLA in the first quarter as the Bruins went on to defeat the 'Eaters, 15-8, in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game at Anteater Aquatics Complex Sunday.
The undefeated Bruins (21-0, 5-0 MPSF) jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Pablo Carballo put UCI on the board with 3:34 left in the opening period.
After UCLA extended the lead to 7-1, the Anteaters' Chris Swieca scored with 16 seconds remaining to cut the deficit to 7-2 after one.
Patrick Fellner scored a power-play goal to put UCLA up 8-2 with 6:26 left in the second quarter before Carballo answered at the 4:51 mark for UCI's lone score of the period. The Bruins tacked on two more goals to take a 10-3 lead at halftime.
UCLA built a 12-3 margin late in the third quarter before UCI's Matt Skinner scored with 2:07 left to make it 12-4 entering the final period.
The Anteaters' Jared Osborn scored back-to-back goals at the 6:36 and 5:33 marks to slice the deficit to 12-6, but UCLA answered with two straight scores to take a 14-6 lead.
Osborn notched his third goal of the quarter with 1:46 remaining before UCLA's Max Irving and UCI's Lovre Milos traded goals in the final two minutes.
Seventh-ranked UCI, 11-7 overall and 1-3 in the MPSF, travels to UC Santa Barbara Saturday before hosting Stanford next Sunday in league games at noon.
UCLA 7-3-2-3 --- 15
UC Irvine 2-1-1-4 --- 8
UCLA: Max Irving 4, Patrick Fellner 3, Anthony Daboub 3, Ryder Roberts 2, Daniel McClintick, Gordon Marshall, Jack Grover.
UCI: Jared Osborn 3, Pablo Carballo 2, Chris Swieca, Matt Skinner, Lovre Milos.
Saves: Garrett Danner (UCLA) 14, Alex Wolf (UCLA) 1; Dylan Peterson (UCI) 0, Byron Rivers (UCI) 10.
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