ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- The Grove City College women's water polo team opened play at the 2025 Collegiate Water Polo Association Division III Championships with a 15-3 setback against No. 2 seed Macalester in Friday afternoon's first round at Augustana College. 

Senior Riley McCullough (Spring, Texas/Oak Ridge), junior Kiley Sill (Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne) and freshman Frances Baksa (Longwood, Fla./Lake Mary) all scored for the seventh-seeded Wolverines. Baksa also tallied an assist, as did sophomore Shastyn Tihansky (Hazleton, Pa./Hazleton) and freshman Emma Strahorn (Harleysville, Pa./North Penn). 

Baksa and Tihansky both recorded three steals. In goal, junior Lea Steen (Schaumburg, Ill./Schaumburg) made six saves. 

Grove City returns to action Saturday at 11 a.m. Eastern, when the Wolverines face Carthage at Augustana's Anne Greve Lund Natatorium.