WATER POLO ROUNDUP: H.-W. CONTROLS ALL BUT SCORE.

Byline: Daily News

When the shots seemed to go everywhere but in, the Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood boys' water polo team also ended up on the outside.

The Wolverines controlled the ball most of the game and outshot Foothill of Santa Ana 37-17, but with most of those shots being off target, Harvard-Westlake was eliminated from the Southern Section Division I playoffs with an 8-5 loss to the Knights in Tuesday's quarterfinal at Harvard-Westlake.

Ted Zepfel and Andrew Herr both scored two goals and Will Noll added another for the unseeded Wolverines (19-6), but few other shots required Foothill goalkeeper Ian Eliott's attention. Eliott needed to make just one save to shut out Harvard-Westlake in the third quarter, even though the Wolverines took seven shots.

``I'm disappointed with the shooting,'' said Wolverines coach Rich Corso, who couldn't remember another game in which his team shot so poorly. ``When you live with the ball, which is a Harvard player's trademark, you have to shoot better than we did.''

Harvard-Westlake and third-seeded Foothill (18-11) met twice during the regular season with each team winning a game by one goal.

``The ball and the crossbar were our friend the last time,'' Corso said. ``The last two games we had a lot more success shooting.''

Zepfel scored the game's first goal with 1:51 left in the first quarter, but Foothill's Wes Fox scored the first of his two goals 17 seconds later and the Wolverines never led again.

``We had some great looks,'' Corso said. ``The ball just wouldn't go in.''

- Heather Gripp

In other water polo action:

--Glendale 14, La Canada 11: Zareah Galastyan scored four goals, including three in the third quarter, and Sasoon Haghverdi had six saves, two in the final minute, as the visiting Dynamiters (23-5) upset defending section champion and No. 1-ranked La Canada (14-12) in a Southern Section Division III quarterfinal match at Pasadena City College.

Glendale got three goals each from John Lee and Matt Hann, and Jerry Sung had six saves at the Dynamiters battled back from a 6-3 deficit and hung on for the victory.

Joe Ondrejka and Phil Webster each had three goals for La Canada and Rob Lowe had five saves.

- Jack Pollon

--Crescenta Valley 11, La Serna 10 (2 OT): David Mulcahey's game-winning goal from mid-pool with just over two minutes remaining in the second overtime lifted the No. 3 seeded Falcons (23-4) over the visiting Lancers (17-10) in a Southern Section Division III quarterfinal match.

Jeff Little scored five goals and Steve Han and Mulcahey added two goals each for Crescenta Valley, which will face Mira Costa in the semifinals. Mira Costa was a 9-8 winner over South Pasadena.

Senior Mike Hoy recorded 18 saves in goal for the Falcons, which led 6-4 after two quarters and had to dodge two shots from four meters by the Lancers in the second overtime.

- George Vranau

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Photo: Ricky Offsay of Harvard-Westlake looks to defend a Foothill p layer during Tuesday's game.

Eric Grigorian/Staff Photographer