For the women, NorCal held on despite losing to Texas as Texas fell one court short of winning the tie-breaker when they lost a court in their last match, Midwest won their flight 3-0 losing just 3 courts, SoCal went 3-0 but won each match 3-2, and Caribbean won their flight 3-0.
So the semis have NorCal vs SoCal and Midwest vs Caribbean.
For the men, NorCal won the 5 team flight 4-0 losing just 3 courts, Caribbean flew through theirs 3-0 losing just 2 courts, SoCal won their flight 3-0, and PNW won theirs losing just 3 courts.
This sets up semis of NorCal vs SoCal, and Caribbean vs PNW.
It was a fun weekend with great competition. One thing I will mention... The PNW men's captain was pretty unsportsmanlike. He was yelling c'mon after his opponents would make unforced errors, including double faults and even a missed first serve. It's hard to tell if he always does that or if he was just increasing the intensity for nationals. I hope for his sake that it was the latter.
ReplyDeleteIt was an awesome weekend for our team. We played--and won ---6 matches in 52 hours to claim the title. Some of the guys on PNW were a bit rowdy, but we got to know them (two have even joined our 2015 team in San Francisco) and they are really great guys and strong competitors. They were my pre tourney favorite along with perennial powerhouse Caribbean and Texas who we barely edged in our 5 team flight ---which was the toughest flight of the weekend.
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