Former Los Alamitos water polo star Rachel Fattal (LAHS ’11) scored four goals to lead the United States women’s national water polo team to a 10-4 win over Italy, on the opening day of the Dutch Trophy in Rotterdam, Netherlands on Wednesday.
Fattal scored two more goals when the US women downed Hungary 17-9, but went scoreless in an 18-8 win over host Netherlands, in the tourney finale.
VOLLEYBALL
Fattal’s former Los Al volleyball teammate, Justine Wong-Orantes (LAHS ’13) was named to the final roster for the US National Womens volleball team for the Pan-American Cup currently being played in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She plays libero.
So far Team USA has defeated Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico and lost a five set match to Cuba, but still advanced to the knock-out brackets where they downed Columbia to advance to the semi-finals.
They will play the winner of the Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico match. Canada and Brazil have already advance to the semifinals as the top two pool finishers among the three four-team pools. All matches can be watched live on flovolleyball.tv in the United States.
