Mater Dei beats No. 1 Laguna Beach, snaps Breakers’ 44-game winning streak

Mater Dei’s girls water polo team finally got past nemesis Laguna Beach on Saturday.   The second-ranked Monarchs used strong play in the second and third periods to defeat the No, 1 Breakers, 6-5, in a nonleague match at Mater Dei.
Laguna Beach, the reigning CIF-SS Division 1 champion, led, 3-1, after the first period but the Monarchs outscored the Breakers 4-1 in the middle quarters to take a 5-4 lead into the fourth.
Mater Dei (11-2) snapped Laguna Beach’s 44-match winni