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Yorktown man, college teammate advance in AVP Contender Series event in Virginia Beach – The Virginian-Pilot
Ayden Keeter of Yorktown and Carson Barnes of Ocean View, Delaware, beat a pair of higher-seeded teams Saturday to earn their way into the men’s elimination bracket of the Association of Volleyball Professionals’ Contender Series event at Virginia Beach’s Oceanfront. Play will resume Sunday morning. The women’s quarterfinals are at 9 a.m., the semifinals at […]
Ayden Keeter of Yorktown and Carson Barnes of Ocean View, Delaware, beat a pair of higher-seeded teams Saturday to earn their way into the men’s elimination bracket of the Association of Volleyball Professionals’ Contender Series event at Virginia Beach’s Oceanfront.
Play will resume Sunday morning. The women’s quarterfinals are at 9 a.m., the semifinals at 11 a.m. and the championship match at 1:30 p.m.
The men’s quarterfinals are at 10 a.m., the semifinals at noon and the final at 2:45 p.m.
Keeter and Barnes have been college beach volleyball teammates for Webber International in central Florida. Seeded 16th in the main draw of 24 men’s pairs, they beat No. 9 Chase Frishman and Ian Satterfield 20-22, 21-13, 15-9 and No. 4 Marcus Carvalhaes and David Wieczorek 21-14, 24-22.
Keeter and Barnes were to face No. 11 Ian Bicko and Jacob Landel in the round of 16.
The winners and runners-up in the $60,000 event at 12th Street and Atlantic Avenue will gain wild-card berths into the AVP’s Manhattan Beach Open in California in August. There’s $30,000 in the prize pool for men and women.
Former Cox High and University of Hawaii player Brett Rosenmeier of Virginia Beach and Nick Drooker of Henrico, who qualified into the bracket, went 0-2 in their pool and were eliminated. They fell 21-15, 21-16 to No. 1 seeds Derek Bradford and Evan Cory and 21-13, 28-30, 15-11 to No. 13 Guille Jimenez and Charlie Siragusa.
Keeter’s younger sister, former Grafton High star Alexis Keeter, competed in women’s pool play with Florida Gulf Coast teammate Elaina Millaway of Greenwood, Delaware. They fell 21-11, 21-15 to second seeds Marine Kinna and Chloe Loreen and 21-14, 23-21 to No. 14 Reilly Allred and Kristi Tekavec.
Qualifiers Mariana Feliciano and Taylor Pierce, the lowest-seeded pair, upended top-seeded Maya Gessner and Jacinda Ramirez 18-21, 21-19, 15-12 to open pool play, though Gessner and Ramirez then won to ensure their spot in the final 16.