GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL: GENE'S TEAM SLIPS IN POOL-PLAY FINALE.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News By virtue of winning its first five matches at the U.S. Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships, Gene's Team allowed itself some margin for error Tuesday in its pool-play finale against Illinois' Celtic Force Green. Hall of Fame coach Gene Selznick can only hope his players don't find themselves in a similar situation today, because another stumble could cost them a shot at winning the 17-under Open Division title. Gene's Team, featuring four area standouts, relinquished a two games- to-one lead against Celtic Force and suffered a 25-23, 21-25, 14-25, 25-22, 15-11 setback at the Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. in Atlanta. The loss created a first-place tie between Gene's Team, based in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). , and the Milwaukee Sting. Selznick's group owned the tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie -- and the automatic berth in today's Gold Division quarterfinals -- based on a 25-22, 25-18, 25-12 victory Monday over Milwaukee. Gene's Team and Milwaukee will compete in the Gold Division, which begins its single-elimination playoffs at 5a.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT . Gene's Team -- led by Jesse Yeager (Oak Park/Pennsylvania) and seniors Cathy Quilico (Westlake), Tori Boden (Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. ) and Deanna Elias (Thousand Oaks) -- faces the Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). Power, which beat Kansas' ASICS ASICS Anima Sana in Corpore Sano (Japanese shoe manufacturer; Latin: a sound mind in a sound body) Mavs in four games in its challenge match. A victory by Gene's Team -- ranked fourth nationally in the 17-under division by PrepVolleyball.com -- over its 12th-ranked opponent would set up a semifinal match at 8:30a.m. PDT against No. 2 Club Fusion or No. 16 First Alliance, both from Illinois. Top-ranked Kaepa Northern Lights (Minnesota) faces No.13 Circle City (Indiana) and ninth-ranked Milwaukee takes on No. 11 ASICS Kiva kiva (kē`və), large, underground ceremonial chamber, peculiar to the ancient and modern Pueblo. The modern kiva probably evolved from the slab houses (i.e. Red (Kentucky) in the other two quarterfinals. The championship match is set for 3 p.m. PDT. In the 18-under American Division, San Gabriel Roshambo -- featuring six area players -- dropped both its qualifying pool matches Tuesday morning, and despite a victory in a challenge match later in the day, will compete in the Bronze Division semifinals today. San Gabriel -- led by fourplayers from Flintridge Sacred Heart of La Canada Flintridge, Morgan Anderson (La Canada/Birmingham Southern) and Laura Boyd (Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta/Stetson) -- faces San Antonio's Bexar County at 6a.m. PDT, with a victory matching it up against Illinois' Sky High Red or La Verne's Club West Elite in the Bronze final at 10 a.m. erik.boal@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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