Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 SAN DIEGO, Calif. - After falling to Division I USC and UC Davis in its first two games at the Triton Invitational, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's water polo team used a 5-0 fourth quarter to defeat Division III rival Pomona-Pitzer on Saturday afternoon. 

CMS now stands at 2-5 on the year, with all of its losses coming to Division I teams, and knocks off the Sagehens in a battle of the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the nation in Division III. The Sagehens earned the Division III national title over the Athenas last season, but CMS is able to get the early upper hand in the Sixth Street Rivalry with potentially four more games still to come. 

Grace Clark had three goals and Valerie Wraith had two, while Natalie Stearns played the second half in goal and had six saves and allowed just one goal to get the win. 

CMS trailed 5-4 late in the third, but Sydney Kroonen knotted the score at 5-5 with 59 seconds left. Caitlin Muñoz then gave CMS the lead to go 1:12 into the fourth quarter to make the score 6-5. With 4:15 to go, Clark extended the lead to 7-5, and then Wraith scored on the next possession to make it 8-5. 

Another Clark goal pushed the lead to 9-5 with 2:29 left, and Isabel Del Villar capped off the game-ending 6-0 run with a goal with 1:36 left to make the final score 10-5. Christina Marlow and Adrienne Medak added goals in the first quarter for CMS. 

Earlier on Saturday, CMS dropped a 12-5 decision to UC Davis, with Clark and Muñoz each scoring twice and Jordan LaCour adding a goal. Yesterday, CMS opened the tournament with a 23-4 loss to USC, with Del Villar scoring twice, and Tatum Dwyer and Wraith each adding one. 

CMS will close out the tournament tomorrow at 10:20 a.m. against UC Santa Barbara.