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Volleyball As we speak: NORCECA gold, silver for USA; Hamburg Elite16; A Staff; LiMu Emu on the seashore

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Volleyball As we speak: NORCECA gold, silver for USA; Hamburg Elite16; A Staff; LiMu Emu on the seashore
The USA males win the NORCECA Males’s Ultimate Six/NORCECA picture

This volleyball replace contains two USA groups in gold-medal NORCECA matches, how Individuals fared in professional seashore tournaments in Germany and Canada, The A Staff hanging out in Italy, and LiMu Emu is a seashore volleyball star.

Zach Rama assaults in opposition to Canada/NORCECA picture

USA males win NORCECA Ultimate Six

The defending champion USA defeated Canada 25-19, 17-25, 25-20, 25-22 Sunday in Gatineau, Quebec, to win the NORCECA Males’s Ultimate Six.

Cooper Robinson led the USA with 16 factors on 9 kills, 4 blocks and three aces. Zach Rama and Will Rottman had 13 factors every.  The Individuals completed 5-1 within the event.

Canada, which went 4-2, acquired 12 factors from Reeve Gingera.

“We had a match earlier within the event in opposition to Mexico the place we needed to come again and win that in 5, so we had been prepped to struggle again,” USA libero Mason Briggs informed NORCECA. “We had been prepped for them (Canada) to return out sizzling, and our purpose is simply to have enjoyable and play collectively.

“I feel we gained a whole lot of confidence over the event. Everybody did their job, and I feel the group simply actually got here collectively to play the most effective volleyball that we may on the finish of the event.”

Click on right here for extra from USA Volleyball, together with the whole event outcomes and roster.

Will Rottman hits in opposition to the Canada triple block/NORCECA picture

USA ladies take NORCECA Pan American Cup silver

Argentina made it back-to-back NORCECA Ladies’s Pan American Volleyball Cup golds with a 25-18, 25-20, 25-19 win over the USA in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, on Sunday.

Argentina completed 7-1 with its solely loss coming to the USA within the preliminary spherical. The Individuals had been 6-0 heading into the ultimate.

Roni Perry led the USA with 13 factors and  Kendall Kipp and Serena Grey added 10 factors every.

Click on right here for extra from USA Volleyball, together with the whole event outcomes and roster.

Sorum-Mol, Huberli-Brunner win Hamburg Elite16 titles

Christian Sorum and Anders Mol of Norway swept Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira of Spain on Sunday to win the Volleyball World Professional Seaside Tour Elite16 in Hamburg, Germany.

The ladies’s title went to Switzerland’s Tanja Huberli and Nina Brunner, who gained in three to disclaim Svenja Muller and Cinja Tillmann of Germany from profitable on residence soil.

Mol and Sorum, who gained 21-15, 25-11, notched their twenty fourth worldwide victory because the Norwegians grew to become the second-most profitable males’s group within the historical past of the game.

The event was powerful for Individuals. The one USA males, Hagen Smith and Logan Webber, gained their first qualifier match however misplaced their second.

The USA pair of Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles, recent off a second-place end at AVP Manhattan Seaside Open, went 2-1 to get out of pool play however acquired knocked out within the spherical of 16 by Germans Laura Ludwig and Louisa Lippman. They misplaced their subsequent match to Mjuller and Tillman, marking the tip of Ludwig’s legendary worldwide profession.

The one different USA pair, Kim Hildreth and Teegan Van Gunst, misplaced their first qualifier match.

Hamburg Elite16 podium/Volleyball World picture

USA sturdy at Volleyball World Futures Halifax

The group of Madelyne Anderson and Brook Bauer gained the ladies’s title Sunday, whereas Garrett Peterson and Caleb Kwekel defeated countrymen Urrutia and Avery Drost to take males’s bronze.

Anderson and Bauer downed Canada’s Marie-Alex Belanger and Lea Monkhouse 21-18, 17-21, 17-15.  There have been fairly a number of different Individuals within the ladies’s subject. Anderson and Bauer knocked out Xolani Hodel and Jade Race within the quarterfinals. Piper Ferch and Lindsey Sparks, who additionally misplaced within the quarters, bounced the USA’s Carly Kan and Devanne Souther within the first spherical of the winners bracket.

Peterson and Kewkel gained the boys’s third-place match 21-17, 14-21, 15-11. Individuals Zephyr Dew and Derek Bradford misplaced to Peterson and Kwekel within the quarterfinals.

The A Staff on Lake Como

April Ross, who teamed with Alix Klineman to win Tokyo Olympics gold and who’re again on the AVP Tour, had fairly a visit after the Manhattan Seaside Open. Ross  posted on her Fb web page from Lake Como in Italy:

Going to want a number of days at residence to get better from the festivities 🫠😂 #worthit

April Ross, left, and Alix Klineman/April Ross Fb

Liberty Mutual seashore volleyball

When you haven’t seen the Liberty Mutual Insurance coverage seashore volleyball commercials with the man they name Doug and LiMu Emu, properly, they’re freakin’ hilarious.

And right here they’re to your viewing pleasure, and, no, I don’t have Liberty Mutual protection:

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