While San Marcos captured the Channel League Boys Water Polo title, both Dos Pueblos and Santa Barbara High competed on Thursday as well.
The Chargers, who will be competing in the CIF playoffs, came away with a third-place matchup win while the Dons fell to Rio Mesa in a tightly-contested battle.
THIRD PLACE: Dos Pueblos 9, Buena 4
The Chargers jumped out to an early lead and never surrendered for the rest of the game, taking down Buena 9-4 and clinching third place in the Channel League.
Dos Pueblos got a trio of goals within the first three minutes of the game from Aden Bishop, Andrew Kline and Lucas Neushul to go up 3-0 quickly.
The Bulldogs cut it to 3-2 at the end of the first quarter, but that was as close as it got for the rest of the game.
Bishop and Neushul each added on another goal later in the game while Jaden Moore also had a pair of goals to share the team lead.
CONSOLATION: Rio Mesa 11, Santa Barbara 10
The Dons had their comeback effort fall just short against Rio Mesa, rounding out the tournament with an 11-10 loss.
Santa Barbara fell behind 6-1 in the second quarter, but Jack Drown led an offensive surge late in the quarter with three goals of his own and the team followed with a pair of scores in the final 10 seconds of the half to take it into halftime tied 6-6.
The Dons led for the majority of the second half, but Rio Mesa took the lead with 18 seconds remaining and eventually sealed it with a game-winner.
Drown’s four goals was a team-high while Calvin Nelley, West Graham and Shane Davis each netted a pair. Defensively, Nikita Kolosov had eight saves and five steals.
