MANHATTAN BEACH OPEN: TIGHT FINISH IN WOMEN'S FINAL.Byline: Sean Martin Sean Martin may refer to:
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. - Misty May-Treanor Misty May-Treanor (born July 30, 1977) is an American professional beach volleyball player. She was born and grew up in Santa Monica, California and graduated from California State University, Long Beach, where she won a national championship, received the Athlete of the Year Award and Kerri Walsh returned to the winners' circle Saturday at the Association of Volleyball Professionals The AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) was founded in 1983 by Leonard Armato. The organization started its own American beach volleyball mens tour in 1984. By the late 80's, the tour was experiencing tremendous growth, in part through the promotion of the sport by Manhattan Beach Open. May-Treanor and Walsh defeated Elaine Youngs and Rachel Wacholder 21-23, 22-20, 15-11 in the women's final. It was the victors' second victory at the Wimbledon of beach volleyball. The final was a rematch of last week's title match at Huntington Beach, which Wacholder and Youngs dominated 21-15, 21-16. They are the only team to defeat May-Treanor and Walsh this season, beating the Athens gold medalists in two finals. Youngs, who teamed with Holly McPeak to win this tournament last year, and Wacholder had plenty of opportunities to win Saturday and add another chapter to a developing rivalry. They held a 4-1 lead in the decisive third game, but May-Treanor and Walsh won nine of the next 10 points. ``They were playing extremely well, so to come back from that, we had to do things extra (well),'' May-Treanor said. ``We had to give more and make the plays that maybe we weren't making in the first set or maybe last week. ``We made a couple changes, but it was just a matter of having nothing to lose. They're inspired and going for it. We just had to go out and be aggressive.'' Wacholder and Youngs won the first game Saturday and tied the score at 20 in the second game before Youngs made a costly error, serving into the net. May-Treanor and Walsh won the next point to force a third game. ``I kicked myself about that afterward,'' said Youngs, a former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX star. ``I just eased up and didn't go for it like I usually do.'' The closeness of the match demonstrated that May-Treanor and Walsh, winners of eight of 10 AVP AVP arginine vasopressin. tournaments this season, no longer are guaranteed victors. ``I feel like every time we come out there, we think we can win,'' Wacholder said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that they think they're going to win every time, either, and everyone watching isn't thinking, 'Oh God, here it goes again, they're going to win,' and it's good.'' That point was made in the semifinals, too. May-Treanor and Walsh squeaked by McPeak (UCLA) and Jen Kessy (USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. ) 21-19, 22-24, 15-13. The teams were tied 13-13 in the third game. Phil Dalhausser, the tallest player on tour at 6-foot-9, and Nick Lucena advanced to today's men's semifinals; so did Dax Holdren and Jeff Nygaard (UCLA). The men's final today begins at 1 p.m. Sean Martin, (818) 713-3607 sean.martin(at)dailynews.com |
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