Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss, Chase Budinger and Miles Evans, and Andy Benesh and Miles Partain obtained by means of pool play Friday on the Volleyball World Seashore Tour Elite16 in Espinho, Portugal, as three of the 4 USA groups left made it to Saturday’s single-elimination bracket.
Fifth-seeded Kloth and Nuss obtained out of pool play with a 21-15, 21-12 victory over Twelfth-seeded Ines Castro and Beatriz Pinheiro of Portugal. They went 1-1 Thursday.
However the different People left within the ladies’s subject, second-seeded Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, didn’t get out of pool play after shedding 21-17, 29-27 to Swiss Olympians Joana Mader and Anouk Verge-Depre, who have been seeded fifteenth after coming by means of the qualifier.
Now on Saturday, Kloth and Nuss will play Verge-Depree and Mader within the winners bracket. The loser goes house, whereas the winner is within the quarterfinals towards top-seeded Brazilians Ana Patricia and Duda.
Budinger and Evans, the thirteenth seed who made it by means of the qualifier and went 1-1 Thursday, superior with a 21-19, 21-14 victory over fourth-seeded Brazilians Andre Loyola and George Wanderly.
Budinger and Evans drew one of many 4 byes into the quarterfinals and await the winner of the match between ninth-seeded Benesh and Partain vs. sixth-seeded Germans Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler.
After shedding their match Thursay, Benesh and Partain went 1-1 Friday to advance. They thumped Sixteenth-seeded Mathias Berntsen and Hendrik Mol of Norway 21-14, 21-14, however then misplaced to eight-seeded Matthew Immers and Steven van de Velde of the Netherlands 21-15, 16-21, 15-7.
