SPOILER: U.S.A. Women's Water Polo Update

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The women's U.S.A water polo team snuck away with the win Tuesday in a thriller against the two-time gold medalists from Australia Tuesday in overtime. The team, with natives Lauren Silver and Lauren Wenger, scored 11-9 Tuesday, and will play for gold this Thursday at noon. 

Australia, trailing 9-8 with one second left in regulation, ran a play to inbound the ball when U.S.A coach Adam Krikorian called an erred timeout. Because his team did not have the ball it was, by-rule, a penalty shot. Australia scored and sent the game into overtime. 

Krikorian was bailed out, however, in the first three-minute overtime by two goals from Maggie Steffens and Kami Craig. Australia was shut out in both overtimes.

“I thought Betsy had grabbed it [the ball] with two hands so I called timeout. Obviously not a smart decision, but it’s a team sport and even the coach makes mistakes,” said Krikorian on the last second call. He went on to add that the team players salvaged the call during overtime. 

Team U.S.A. has been to three straight gold medal games, in Sydney, Athens and Beijing. They look to earn their first win and gold medal Thursday afternoon.

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