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Aquatics: Capistrano Valley’s DeShon, Beck make commitments

April 16th, 2013, 11:10 am by DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com

Capistrano Valley swimmer Spencer DeShon and swimmer/water polo player Jon Beck have made college decisions.

DeShon has committed to Stanford from the Pac-12 while Beck has committed to Loyola Marymount for water polo. LMU competes in the Western Water Polo Association.

At Stanford, DeShon will join fellow Capistrano Valley senior, Jack DesCombes, who also will swim for the Cardinal.

Beck’s sister, Mackenzie, is one of the top scorers on LMU’s women’s water polo team.

DeShon, Beck and DesCombes are key members of the Cougars’ reigning CIF Division 1 championship swim team.

Capistrano Valley’s boys swim competes the Palm Springs invite on Saturday.

Please send water polo and swimming news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com

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Boys water polo: SET 18-and-unders claim silver at Junior Olympics

August 2nd, 2012, 11:19 pm by DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com

SET’s 18-and-under boys water polo team — loaded with Orange County products and high school players to watch in 2012 — claimed the silver medal at the recent Junior Olympics at Stanford.

The squad based at El Toro High fell in the final to Northern California’s Lamorinda, 9-4.

Coach Justin Johnson said his team was led on offense by left-hander Joey Fuentes (El Toro, headed to UCLA) and Samer Alkateb (Laguna Beach, headed to UC Santa Barbara), on defense by goalie Erik Henrikson (Laguna Beach, headed to Johns Hopkins) and James Rude (El Toro, headed to Santa Clara) and by the two-way play of Joey Colton, a senior at El Toro.

Here’s the rest of the SET roster from JOs:

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