Hudsonville, MICH - The Zeeland Women's Water Polo team defeated rival West Ottawa 9-3 on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the District Tournament.  The win automatically qualifies the team for the Regional Tournament next weekend.  West Ottawa scored the first goal of the game before Zeeland tied it at 1-1 to end the first period scoring.  Zeeland led 2-1, 3-2, and finally took the lead at 4-3 going into the half and scored the final 6 goals of the game (5 in the second half).  Morgan Beers was once again stellar in goal with 15 saves.

Zeeland had 7 different goal scorers.  Katie Agar and Rylee Fowler each scored 2 and Chelsea Engelsman, Peyton Elenbaas, Kayleigh Brown, Jobvie Poest, and Kelsy Toth each added one.  Kelsy Toth led the team with 4 steals and Peyton Elenbaas drew 3 exclusions.

"We started out a little tight tonight.  Our depth really showed in this game and helped us survive the first half.  We came out really strong in the second half with a lot of energy.  Morgan was great in goal and really helped us fuel our offense with her great passes all game long." - Coach Dave Vruggink