The Ventura College Pirates’ water polo team showed off their potent offensive attack, absolutely obliterating the winless Santa Monica City College Corsairs 21-6 Wednesday afternoon.

The game featured goals from seven different Pirates players, including four goals from sophomore Mike Crowley.

Crowley believed that it was easy to move the ball around offensively, and that this contributed to a successful offensive attack.

“It was easy to control the offense,” Crowley said. “Our offense was really flowing.”

The Pirates did seem to be able to easily move the ball around, scoring their first goal 45 seconds into the game.

A goal by Spencer McGrath gave the Pirates a commanding 4-1 lead less than four minutes into the game.

The Corsairs were never able to recover, and trailed the Pirates by six after the first period.

The Pirates truly shined offensively, taking twice as many shots on goal as the Corsairs. That meant the Pirates scored an astonishing 71 percent of the time by putting in 20 of 28.

Crowley added another goal in the third period to put the Pirates up 9-1, before the Corsairs finally got a goal from No. 15. But this proved to only make the blow out seem less eminent, as the Pirates took an 11-4 lead at the half, and a 17-5 lead after three periods.

Pirates head coach Mike Schmidt was pleased with the way his team played this afternoon, and complimented their ability to work together as a team.

“For the most part, we did what we wanted to do,” he said. “We made a lot of good passes and played together real well.”

Despite the easy win for the Pirates, and the obvious talent level that overmatched the Corsairs, the win was still important to the Pirates.

“It was still a big win for us,” Schmidt said. “[The win] secures a top seed in the conference tournament.”

At 17-4 (4-0 Western State Conference), the victory clinched the Pirates a number one seed in the WSC tournament, which will be held this Friday and Saturday at Valley Glen College.