Robust day for People at Espinho Elite 16 seaside volleyball tourney

What a tough Thursday for USA Volleyball on the Volleyball World Seashore Tour Espinho Elite16.

On the boys’s aspect, the pair of Chase Budinger and Miles Evans got here away with a victory, thought it got here after shedding earlier within the day. Andy Benesh and Miles Partain misplaced their solely match.

On the ladies’s aspect, Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth gained a match however then misplaced, and Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes misplaced their solely match.

Pool play finishes forward of Saturday’s single-elimination play.

Budinger and Evans, seeded Thirteenth after coming by means of the qualifier, misplaced to fifth-seeded Evandro Goncalves and Arthur Mariano 17-21, 21-15, 15-13. Then they gained 21-17, 21-17 over Twelfth-seeded Hugo Campos and Joao Pedrosa of Portugal. 

Friday, Budinger and Evans play fourth-seeded Brazilians Andre Loyola and George Wanderley.

Benesh and Partain, seeded No. 9, misplaced to top-seeded David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden 21-16, 23-21.

Benesh and Partain play twice Friday, in opposition to Sixteenth-seeded Mathias Berntsen and Hendrik Mol of Norway after which in opposition to eighth-seeded Matthew Immers and Steven van de Velde of the Netherlands.

Nuss and Kloth, seeded fifth, beat Thirteenth-seeded Victoria Lopes and Taina Silva of Brazil 24-22, 22-20. However then they misplaced to fourth-seeded Raisa Schoon and Katja Stam of the Netherlands 17-21, 23-21, 15-9.

Nuss and Kloth play Twelfth-seeded Ines Castro and Beatriz Pinheiro of Portugal on Friday.

Second-seeded Cheng and Hughes misplaced 21-12, 21-16 to Tenth-seeded Germans Svenja Muller and Cinja Tillmann.

Friday, they play seventh-seeded Xinyi Xia and Chen Xue of China after which Fifteenth-seeded Joana Mader and Anouk Verge-Depre of Switzerland.

High-seeded Duda Lisboa and Ana Patricia Silva gained each their matches, 21-18, 22-20 over Nina Brunner and Tanja Huberli of Switzerland and 21-18, 14-21, 15-10 over Latvians Tina Graudina, the previous USC nice, and Anastasija Samoilova.