No. 20 Water Polo Downs Johns Hopkins, Comes Up Short vs. No. 5 Fordham, Wagner

Thursday, October 9

Baltimore, MD

7:00 PM

George Washington University

Johns Hopkins

No. 20 Water Polo Downs Johns Hopkins, Comes Up Short vs. No. 5 Fordham, Wagner

10/11/2025 7:34:00 PM | Water Polo

No. 20 GW water polo defeated Johns Hopkins on Thursday night, 19-16, before suffering its first two MAWPC losses of 2025 on Saturday, dropping tight contests to both No. 5 Fordham and Wagner. GW is now 10-10 overall with a 5-2 record in the MAWPC, and it will meet both of Saturday's opponents again on Sunday, Nov. 2, at The St. James in Springfield, Va.

No. 20 GW 19, Johns Hopkins 16
The Buff & Blue rose up to the challenge in its midweek, non-conference contest against Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The Revolutionaries outscored the Blue Jays in each of the first three quarters, and brought a 15-9 lead into the fourth, before weathering a fourth-quarter Johns Hopkins' comeback attempt to survive with a 19-16 win.

Eight different Revolutionaries scored as GW matched its second-best scoring total of the season. Adonis Vlassis and Antonio Florena paced the pack with four apiece, while Andrea Forno and Gabriel Molfino both added three scores.

No. 20 GW 12, Wagner 16
GW held pace early but ultimately dropped its first conference game of the season to Wagner. GW led 4-3 after the end of the first quarter, but Wagner regained an edge by outscoring GW 5-2 in the second to bring an 8-6 lead into halftime. A back-and-forth third kept Wagner's lead to two at 11-9 entering the fourth quarter, then the Seahawks kept pressing and dropped another five goals in the fourth to secure the win, 16-12.

Vlassis, Florena and Forno carried most of the offense, combining for ten of the team's 12 goals, with Vlassis leading the way with five. Vasilije Marinkovic finished the game with nine saves and two steals.

No. 20 GW 14, No. 5 Fordham 16
GW was matching up against the top-ranked team in the MAWPC and looking for its first win against the Rams since 2019. GW didn't have the start it needed, knocked down 5-0 as Fordham dominated the first six minutes. Those first six minutes proved costly, as GW stormed back to eventually tie the game in the fourth, but despite outscoring the Rams after its slow start, Fordham escaped with a 16-14 victory.

GW closed in on the Rams at the end of the third quarter, tearing off a four-goal run to close the third before tying the game with an early fourth-quarter score. Fordham took the lead back with a two-goal flash with just under three to go, but after coming back within one, another two goals for the Rams in quick succession put the game away.

Vlassis (seven goals, two assists) and Florena (five goals, three steals) carried the load, combining for 12 of GW's 14 tallies, while Forno made his impact felt, drawing seven Fordham exclusions.

UP NEXT
GW breaks from conference play for the last time in the regular season next weekend for four games at the Harvard Invitational. The Buff & Blue will challenge Brown (11:00 a.m.) and LIU (4:00 p.m.) on Saturday in Providence, R.I., before going to battle vs. Harvard (10:00 a.m.) and MIT (2:00 p.m.) in Cambridge, Mass., on Sunday.