Jeremy Casebeer prepares to serve a ball during AVP qualifying tournament. Casebeer and partner Andy McGuire lost their last match and didn’t advance to the main draw at the Santa Barbara Open.
It was a tough day for the seeded local men?s teams in the AVP Qualifier on Thursday at West Beach.
Second-seeded Jeremy Casebeer and Andy McGuire and No. 3 Will Montgomery and Avery Drost fell one victory short of advancing to today?s main draw for the AVP Santa Barbara Open.
Will Montgomery passes a ball during qualifying match at the AVP Santa Barbara Open.
Casebeer (Santa Barbara High alum) and McGuire (UCSB alum) lost to Russ Marchewka and Derek Olson, 21-16, 21-14. Montgomery (SBHS alum) and Avery Drost (Westmont) fell to Mike Placek-Austin Rester, 22-20, 21-14.
The other two qualifiers are Brian Bomgren-Tim Bomgren and Bill Strickland-Aaron Wachtfogel. The top-seeded qualifying team of Matt Olson and Ed Ratledge was knocked out in the second round of play on Thursday.
The women?s qualifiers are Olaya Pazo-Kendra Van Zwieten, Sarah Day-Kaitlin Nielsen, Erin Gray-Heather Lowe and Andrea Peterson-Tanya White. Peterson-White get to play Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross in the first round Friday.
In the completion of the St. Petersburg, Fla. final, second-seeded Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson, beat seventh-seeded Theo Brunner (UCSB) and Nick Lucena, 22-20, 21-19. The teams picked up the match in the second set. Gibb-Patterson were leading when severe weather in Florida forced the final to be suspended.
