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CASTAWAYS, Antigua, January 22, 2016 – The cream of the crop in
the zonal associations of CAZOVA and ECVA will do battle over
the next three days when the 12-team Second Round of NORCECA
Men’s Beach Volleyball Continental Cup qualifiers to the 2016
Rio Olympic Games takes place from Friday until Sunday at
Castaways Beach, Jolly Harbour, Antigua.
The tournament features the top six teams comprising two pairs
each from the first round of qualification held last year in
CAZOVA and ECVA regions competing in best-of-five
double-elimination series through the finals.
Should the teams be locked at 2-2 at the end of the first four
matches, the winner will be determined by a “Golden Set”, up to
15 points, or a two-point advantage.
At the end of the tournament, the top eight teams will qualify
to the Third Round of NORCECA qualifiers where they will be
joined by the top four teams from the Central American
Volleyball Federation (AFECAVOL).
The teams competing in Antigua are the host country, St Kitts &
Nevis, Dutch St Maarten, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Dominica
and ECVA Round One winners St Lucia as well as CAZOVA First
Round champions, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados,
Suriname, U.S. Virgin Islands and Curacao.
Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica, the top two teams from the first
round of CAZOVA qualifiers, and St Lucia and Antigua, the top
two in the ECVA were given first round byes on Friday.
Trinidad & Tobago will get its first taste of action against the
winner of the match between Barbados and Dominica; Antigua will
play the Curacao-St Vincent and The Grenadines winner; Jamaica
tackles the Suriname-St Kitts & Nevis victor; and St Lucia will
come up against the USVI-Dutch St Maarten winner in the winners’
draw. The losers of the first round matches will then enter
Losers Draw.
Second Round teams:
Suriname-A
(Furgil Ong A Fat/Keven Sporkslede), Suriname-B (Antonie
Vilet/Jermain Lo Kioeng); U.S. Virgin Islands-A (Jake Die
Trich/Marc Lomeli), U.S. Virgin Islands-B (Brian
Kwasny/Dillon Lusniak); Curacao-A (Darwin Colina/Norandy
Bonafasia), Curacao-B (Henrich Daal/Giandro Tokaay);
Dominica-A (Kerwin George/Yahn Florent), Dominica-B
(David Toussaint/Arden Elmes); Jamaica-A Triston
Hitchman/Christopher Walters), Jamaica-B (Mark Lewis/Ryck
Webb-Mc Kenzie); St Vincent and The Grenadines-A (Cassius
Franklyn/Welcome Delshun); St Vincent and The Grenadines-B
(Asmond Franklyn/Ronaldo Franklyn); St Kitts & Nevis-A
(St Clair Hodge/Kemroy Percival); St Kitts & Nevis-B
(Stedroy Collins/Rohan Jeffers); Dutch St Maarten-A
(Shiovanni Levenstone/Lincoln Arrundell), Dutch St Maarten-B
(Riegmar Valies/Shawn Gumbs); Barbados-A (Elwyn
Oxley/Ronald Rice), Barbados-B (Kyle Browne/Shaquille
Barker); Trinidad and Tobago-A (Daneil Williams/Fabien
Whitfield); Trinidad and Tobago-B (Christian
Francois/Simon Blake); St Lucia-A (Joseph
Clercent/Augustin Faulkner); St Lucia-B (Tevin St
Jean/Darnel Eudoxie); Antigua & Barbuda-A (Collin
Thomas/Jamarie James); Antigua & Barbuda-B (Adrian
Constant/Rixon Joseph). |
