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Ninth leg of the NORCECA BVB Circuit spikes off Friday
PIGEON POINT, St Lucia,
October 10, 2013 - The ninth leg of the 2013 NORCECA Beach
Volleyball Circuit spikes off here on Friday morning.
Sixteen men’s pairs, as
well as fifteen women’s pairs will do battle for honours in the
three day tournament which culminates on Sunday.
Heading up the men’s play
is the Mexican duo of Ulises Ontiveros and Tomas Aguilera, while
the USA’s A team combination of Heather Hughes and Lane Carico
is the ranked number one among the women.
When the eighth leg was
staged last week in California, USA, Hughes and Carico saw off
fellow Americans Sarah Day and Kaitlin Nielsen of USA-B, 2-0, to
take the gold medal at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula
Vista.
In the process, the duo earned the Americans’ 17th
gold medal on the NORCECA Beach Volleyball circuit. There, they
played unbeaten winning all ten sets in their five matches.
In this St Lucia outing, Carico will be looking to make it three
straight win, as she teamed up with Sara Hughes in the seventh
leg to win gold in Puerto Rico last month.
Thirty matches, using the
three courts are set for Friday and will all teams in action
including the top seeds.
Ontiveros and Aguilera
take on Costa Rican pair of Zlatko Piskulih/Alex Villegas and St
Kitts and Nevis’ Kemoroy Percival / St Clair Hodge. Among the
women, Hughes and Carico face off with Brenda Allen and Shanicia
Dyer of St Kitts and Nevis.
Friday’s matches will
sandwich the opening ceremony which is scheduled for 6:30 pm.
Men’s Teams
ARU
(Mitchel Daniel/Eargenell De Cuba), CAN-A (Andrew
Hinchey/Ryan Vandenburg), CAN-B (Cameron Wheelan/Michael
Plantiga), CRC (Zlatko Piskulich/Alex Villegas), DOM
(Luis Castillo/William Sánchez), GUA (Andy Leonardo/Erick
Garrido), GRN (Jonel Phillip/Darron Oxford), LCA-A
(Julian Bissette/Joseph Clercent), LCA-B (Coen Caesar/Gillan
Octave), MEX: (Ulises Ontiveros/Tomás Aguilera), PUR
(Víctor Rivera/Erick Haddock), SKN (St Clair Hodge/Kemoroy
Percival), TRI (Fabien Whitfield/Daneil Williams),
USA-A (John Hyden/Tri Bourne), USA-B (Davie
McKenzie/Austin Rester), VIN (Cassius Franklyn/Kemaul
Lee).
Women’s Teams
CAN-A
(Claudia Seguin/Brandie Wilkerson), CAN-B (Megan
McNamara/Nicole McNamara), CRC (Katherine Quesada/Eugenia
Ramírez), DOM (Diana Peguero/Nairobi Agramonte), GRN
(Thornia Williams/Renisha Stafford), LCA-A (Samantha
Mann/Diana Hamilton), LCA-B (Jamilla Lansiquot/Kerin
Neptune), MEX (Martha Revuelta/Bibi Candelas), PUR
(Eva Torruella/Lina Bernier), SKN (Brenda Allen/Shanicia
Dyer), TRI-A (Nancy Joseph/Ayana Dyette), TRI-B (Elki
Phillip/Pauline Woodroffe), USA-A (Heather Hughes/Lane
Carico), USA-B (Sarah Day/Kaitlin Nielsen), VIN
(Nikita Campbell/Shanique DeShong).
Men’s Pools
Pool A:
MEX, GUA, CRC, SKN. Pool B: PUR, LCA-A, ARU, CAN-B.
Pool C: CAN-A, DOM, VIN, USA-B. Pool D: USA-A, TRI,
GRN, LCA-B.
Women’s Pools
Pool A:
USA-A, SKN, LCA-A.
Pool B:
CAN-A, TRI, USA-B, VIN. Pool C: MEX, PUR, GRN, LCA-B.
Pool D:
DOM, CRC, TRI, CAN-B. |
