DALHAUSSER GETS HIS POINT ACROSS REPEATS WITH ROGERS AT MANHATTAN BEACH.Byline: PHIL COLLIN Staff Writer MANHATTAN BEACH Manhattan Beach, city (1990 pop. 32,063), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1912. It is a residential and beach community with an oil refinery and nearby factories that produce transportation and electrical equipment, computers, and pottery. -- For two-plus games, Sean Scott Sean Scott (born September 25, 1978) is an Arena Football League wide receiver/linebacker for the Philadelphia Soul. He went to Millersville University. He is now a member of the CW Road Crew. and Dax Holdren Dax Holdren (born September 4, 1972 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American professional beach volleyball player. Holdren is currently on the AVP tour playing with Jeff Nygaard. would have paid to have Phil Dalhausser Phil Dalhausser (born January 26 1980) is an American beach volleyball player. At 6'9", Dalhausser led the 2005 AVP tour in blocks and was sixth in kill percentage. As of 2006, Dalhausser teams up with Todd Rogers. Dalhausser has previously teamed up with Nick Lucena. serve it up against them. Then suddenly, they paid the price, and it was painful. They discovered the sand of Manhattan Beach was no place to have Dalhausser serving at a crucial juncture. Sure enough, just like on championship point a year ago, Dalhausser discovered his form and he and Todd Rogers Todd Rogers (born September 30, 1973 in Santa Barbara, California) is a top professional beach volleyball player on the AVP Professional Beach Volleyball Tour. Born in Santa Barbara, he attended San Marcos High School (Santa Barbara, California) After a successful one year career became the first team in 14 years to repeat as AVP AVP arginine vasopressin. Manhattan Beach Open winners. Trailing by a point in the final game of the match, Dalhausser -- with nine service errors in the match -- hit his zone, booming serves that knocked Holdren and Scott off the court in a 20-22, 21-16, 15-11 victory Sunday. "His serve was off the first two games, he'd be the first to tell you that, and then all of a sudden in the third game he got on a run," Rogers said. "He and a handful of other people ... are capable of doing that out here." It was the only loss of the weekend for Holdren and Scott, who were playing together in only their third tournament of the season. They were on the threshold of becoming only the fifth team to win in the past 27 AVP events. "We played well," Holdren said. "Phil couldn't find his serve on the court for 21/2 games, and miraculously he pulled it out with three good ones in a row. That's why they're winning tournaments." It was career win No. 30 for Rogers, who has won 17 with Dalhausser. He has also won five with Scott and eight with Holdren, his childhood friend from Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. . The last team to repeat in Manhattan was Karch Kiraly Charles Frederick Kiraly, better known as Karch Kiraly (born November 3, 1960 in Jackson, Michigan), is an American volleyball player who is the only person to have won Olympic gold medals in both the indoor and beach versions of the sport. and Kent Steffes Kent Steffes (born June 23, 1968 in Pacific Palisades, California) is an American beach volleyball player. He was a gold medalist in the 1996 Summer Olympics along with Karch Kiraly. He attended Stanford, and later transfed to UCLA. He graduated with a degree in Economics. , who won three consecutive times from 1991-93. Down by 4-5 in the final game, Dalhausser picked up a point with a hit down the line. Then his serves began to take a toll, with Scott hitting out from a tough set. The 6-foot-9 Dalhausser then blocked Scott for a point and followed with a serve that glanced off the tape and dropped straight to the sand. It was reminiscent of his tournament-winning serve in 2006. Holdren and Scott had seen enough and called a timeout. When they returned, Dalhausser cracked an ace down the line, then hit a booming serve that turned into an easy chance for Dalhausser, who hit off Scott's block for another point and a 10-5 lead. Holdren and Scott could get no closer than three points after that. "I kept telling him, 'Hey, go for it.' He missed, I felt, a couple where he didn't go for it," Rogers said. "Hey, if you're going to miss, you might as well go for it." While Dalhausser struggled early, Holdren and Scott were steady in the first game and exploited their final chance, with Holdren hitting off the block and Scott blocking Rogers to break a 20-20 tie. "You could tell Phil had low energy level," Rogers said, "and I was trying to keep mine as high as I could just because it's the Manhattan Beach Open finals." phil.collin@dailybreeze.com (310) 540-4201 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Phil Dalhausser, left, gets his glasses knocked off as he blocks a shot from Dax Holdren on Sunday in Manhattan Beach. Sean Hiller/Staff Photographer |
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