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Hey Les and Shelly,
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Salmon Bay School
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In the finale that pitted two teams that know each other very well in front over an overflow center court crowd of over 6,000 enthusiastic fans, USA’s top-seeded Dalhausser/Rogers controlled the gold medal match from start to finish over USA’s fourth-seeded Fuerbringer/Lucena, earning their third straight championship in this event, 21-17, 21-18 in 44 minutes. Dalhausser/Rogers will split in the will each split $30,000 for winning the gold medal and their friendly rivals will receive $21,000 for their silver medal.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first FIVB-sanctioned event (Rio de Janeiro in 1987), the international beach volleyball circuit began for the fourth consecutive season with the Brasília Open was held on The Esplanada dos Ministérios in Quadrante 1 as the Brazilian capital celebrated its 52nd anniversary on Saturday in the area surrounding the venue.
It was the 13th time in the history of the FIVB SWATCH World Tour that two teams from the United States met in the gold medal match. The last time was July 24, 2011 in Quebec, Canada when the same two teams met and Dalhausser/Rogers defeated Fuerbringer/Lucena. It was also only the fourth time in 34 FIVB events held in Brazil and first since 1991 that there was an all-USA gold medal match.
In the first tournament for Dalhausser/Rogers since Rogers injured his knee last August in Aland, Finland, as Rogers showed no ill effects from the surgery in Brazil. After losing in the second round on Thursday, Dalhausser/Rogers have won seven straight matches to finish the Brasília Open with an 8-1 record. Fuerbringer/Lucena lost in the third round on Friday and ended with a 6-2 record in this tournament. On the FIVB SWATCH World Tour, Dalhausser/Rogers now have a 6-1 record against Fuerbringer/Lucena. This was the third time the two teams have met in a FIVB gold medal match and Dalhausser/Rogers have won all three.
USA’s Dalhausser/Rogers, the 2008 Beijing Olympic champions, were playing in their 50th FIVB SWATCH World Tour event as a team made it to their 39th final four. They have now played in 29 gold medal matches and have earned a gold medal in 22 of them. Individually, the veteran Rogers has played in 97 FIVB events and Dalhausser has 53 on his resume. They have made the final four in all three of their appearances in this event with three gold medals and one fourth place as they join the rest of the field in the quest for a spot in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
USA’s Fuerbringer/Lucena have played in 24 world tour events as a team and have made it to their fifth final four without a gold medal but they do have two silver medals as a tandem. Individually, Their best finish in this event was a fifth place last year. Fuerbringer has played in 61 FIVB events and Lucena has been in 35.
“We love play in Brazil, we love playing Americans and we love winning in Brazil and it certainly showed this week,” said Rogers following his team’s gold medal triumph. “We had a tough week, especially losing in the second round and having to come back in our first tournament of the year and me coming off a serious knee injury. In the second set I was tired and made a couple of mistakes and they got back in the game. We had a long way to go to win the title, including beating four teams from Brazil, which isn’t easy, and we had to play nine games in the tournament which doesn’t happen often. We know Matt and Nick so well we have a lot more rallies than against most opponents, but I can say any questions I had about our off time from the tour are gone.”
USA vs. USA by sets
Setting the tone early, Dalhausser blocked Lucena’s kill attempt in the first set and the only tie was a 1-1 as Dalhausser/Rogers made few errors and scored on several blocks and cut shots by both players. Fuerbringer/Lucena did mount a rally to close to 13-15, but the Olympic champions pulled away from there to win the set that ended a serve by Lucena that went long.
The second set was closer in a set of runs, tied at 6-6 when Dalhausser/Rogers ran off three straight points, only to see Fuerbringer/Lucena come back with two points of their own. The last tie in the set was at 12-12, when Dalhaausser had another of his massive blocks followed by a Rogers poke cut shot for a point and they rallied for four points. After several long rallies which seemed to wear on both teams in the heat, Dalhausser/Rogers led 20—16 before another by Fuerbringer/Lucena closed it to 20-18 before the set and match ended another colorful Brasília Open when Lucena’s serve went long
Brazil vs. Spain bronze medal match
In Sunday’s bronze medal match, Brazil’s third-seeded Ricardo Santos/Pedro Cunha pleased their packed-house, home-country fans on center court by defeating Spain’s fifth-seeded Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, 21-18, 21-14 in 39 minutes. The first set was played very close up to 12-12 before the Brazilian pulled ahead by two points with strong play at the net by both Ricardo and Cunha. In the final set, Cunha started the Brazilian roll and he and Ricardo never trailed and there were no ties as the closest Gavira/Herrera got was 4-5 before the Brazilians took off and kept about a five point margin until they scored the final two points for the seven-point victory margin. Ricardo/Cunha will split $15,000 for the bronze and Gavira/Herrera will receive $11,200 for their fourth place finish. Both teams finished with 4-2 records in this event.
It was the first meeting between the two teams, but not between Ricardo and Herrera. Herrera, playing with Javier Bosma, lost to Ricardo and Emanuel Rego in the gold medal match at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
“It is very important for our team to start the international season with a podium placement,” said Ricardo. “The FIVB SWATCH World Tour is our top priority this season and with this result we are close to achieving our biggest goal of representing Brazil in the Olympics. We earned important points, which will improve our position in the ranking and that will help us in the next tournaments. I am glad as we are having the results we expected.”
Brazil’s Ricardo/Cunha, both veterans, were playing in only their sixth FIVB SWATCH World Tour event together and made it to their third final four. Ricardo has played in 177 FIVB tournaments with 53 gold medals while Cunha has played in 87 tournaments overall with eighth gold medals, including two since forming the partnership with Ricardo. This was the team’s first bronze medal.
Spain’s Gavira/Herrera were playing in their 33rd world tour event as a team and they now have 11 final four appearances but are still striving for their first FIVB gold medal. This was the second event back for the team as Herrera injured his knee last July in the grand slam in Gstaad, Switzerland and returned for the last event of the season where the team had a fifth place finish. In two previous tournaments here, they finished ninth both in 2010 and last year.
Brazil’s big beach history
Brazil has staged a FIVB SWATCH World Tour event every year since the start of the international series for men in 1989 and women in 1992. This was the 34th men’s event and 29th women’s tournament on the FIVB SWATCH World Tour held in Brazil. It was also the 14th time that the FIVB SWATCH World Tour had its season-opening event in Brazil and fourth consecutive year the tour came to Brasília.
Road to London
Nearly 140 teams from 35 countries were part of this year’s The women’s competition ended Friday with China’s Chen Xue/Xi Zhang defeating Brazil’s Maria Antonelli/Talita Antunes for the gold medal. With the season-opening event on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour calendar in Brazil, the road to the 2012 London Olympic Games has resumed as 16 of the 24 teams in each gender will be determined through year-long Olympic rankings on the FIVB SWATCH World Tour. This event was the first of nine double-gender events on the 2012 world tour schedule. Beach Volleyball at the London Olympic Games will run from July 28 to August 9.
Busy schedule ahead
After the Brasília stop, the 2012 FIVB SWATCH World Tour continues with events on four consecutive weeks. The genders split venues next week for open events with the women in Sanya, China and the men in Myslowice, Poland. Following those events will be consecutive double-gender grand slam events in Shanghai, China (April 30-May 6) and Beijing, China (May 7-13) and a men’s event in Prague, Czech Republic (May 22-27).
Hi guys, Patrick from the Winona, MN YMCA. Loving the Cobra indoor volleyball net systems we got from you. They are AWESOME! I need to order two of the black handled (knobbed) floor bolts. Can you invoice us for the two bolts?
Thanks again for such a great product. -Patrick Patrick Menton Program Director WINONA FAMILY YMCA 207 WINONA STREET, WINONA MN 55987
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Mal Pais, Costa Rica, February 8, 2012 – Teams from 10 countries representing Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua) and the Caribbean (Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao, Jamaica and Cayman islands) will battle from February 10 to 12 at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Cup Women’s Inter Zonal tournament, the penultimate phase of the qualifying process for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Starting on Friday, El Salvador meet Cayman Islands while Nicaragua take on Jamaica in the first series of a double-elimination competition which will see the top four in the standings moving on to the finals against teams from the Central Region from June 19 to 24 in Nayarit, Mexico.
Barbados and hosts Costa Rica, the top ranked teams, will play the winners of those best-of-five series in a second round that also features contests between Panama and Curacao as well as Trinidad and Tobago and Guatemala.
"We are anticipating a very exciting competition as teams are really hungry for the chance to compete in the final stage of the tournament,” Arnaldo Sanchez, technical director said on Wednesday after arriving in Mal Pais the previous night. “It has been a long process for some of these teams, especially those from the Caribbean who have survived two zonal tournaments before getting here.”
The experienced duo of Ingrid Morales and Natalia Alfaro (Costa Rica A), bronze medallists in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico during last year’s NORCECA Circuit, were the first to arrive in Mal Pais, a surfers’ paradise located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
Most of the teams are expected to arrive late Wednesday and early Thursday.
Morales and Alfaro helped Costa Rica clinch first place in the Central America Zonal Tournament when they won their two matches over the teams of Panama last year at Montelimar, Nicaragua.
“We are very optimistic about our chances of claiming the first place playing at home,” Morales said. “We have been training hard in preparation for this event and it is great to welcome all the teams taking part in the competition.”
Barbados’ teams of Anthazia Mason and Shari Matthews and Sharon Bovell and Mona Crawford are fresh from two three-set victories over Trinidad and Tobago last December in the Cayman Islands to claim the top position among the countries from the Caribbean region.
Cuba, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico claimed the top four places of the Central Zone at last year’s zonal event held in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic.
The NORCECA Control Committee held a joint-meeting with the local organisers on Wednesday to review all details before 28 matches across three different courts begin on Friday morning.
The Control Committee is led by Marta Centeno de Sajche as NORCECA delegate, Sanchez as technical director, Miguel Ramirez, referee manager, Bienvenido Mateo, BVIS delegate and Roosevelt Comarazamy, press delegate.
Caribbean Zone Teams
Barbados A (Anthazia Mason/Shari Mathews), Barbados B (Sharon Bovell/Mona Crawford), Cayman Islands A (Jennifer Bily/Cristin Alexander), Cayman Islands B (Taylor Burrowes/Stefania Gandolfi), Curacao A (Samira Luis/Christine Anthony), Curacao B (Kionna Gregorius/Christal Gregorius), Jamaica A (Cherine Richards/Cheryl Daley), Jamaica B (Tsahai Williams/Nardarake Hutchinson), Trinidad and Tobago A (Ayana Dyette/Elki Phillip), Trinidad and Tobago B (Pauline Woodroffe/Malika Charles).
Central America Teams
Costa Rica A (Ingrid Morales/Natalia Alfaro), Costa Rica B (Ivette Alas/Marianela Alfaro), El Salvador A (Diana Romero/Marcela Avalos), El Salvador B (Nadia Soler/Laura Molina), Guatemala A (Susana Alvarado/Anna Ramírez), Guatemala B (Rut Gómez/Stefany Bolaños), Nicaragua A (Amalia Hernández/Lolette Rodríguez), Nicaragua B (Elia Torrez/Swan Mendoza), Panamá A (Katherine Tajú/Jazmín Rojas), Panamá B (Carina Corella/Dionelys Delgado).
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