{"id":190559,"date":"2024-01-23T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=190559"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:37:32","slug":"historic-win-wahine-water-polo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/23\/historic-win-wahine-water-polo\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic win: Wahine water polo defeats No.1 Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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No. 5 ranked University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa women’s water polo<\/a> team capped a thrilling opening day of the 2024 season with a historic victory over No. 1 Stanford at the Fresno State Polo-Palooza in California.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Wahine went to overtime in both of their matches on January 20, and pulled out a 14-11 win over No. 13 Michigan The \u2018Bows faced two-time defending national champion Stanford and earned the program’s first win in 37 meetings with the Cardinal with a 9-7 victory.<\/p>\n

Bonamusa Boix scored a team-high of four goals against Stanford. Senior goalie Emma Gurasich made a clutch save with 37 seconds left in the fourth quarter to send the game into overtime. Gurasich posted six saves (.462) and a steal in her UH<\/abbr> debut. Jordan Wedderburn stepped up in a big way, scoring the game-winning shot in the first overtime period. Doyle came up with a steal with 27 seconds left and Wedderburn scored into the empty net to secure the victory.<\/p>\n

For more visit HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The water polo Rainbow Wahine make history as they reign victory after 37 meetings against two-time defending national champion Stanford. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,911,714,9,550,1575],"class_list":["post-190559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-water-polo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t