#TBT to AVP Gold Series Championships 2018: Day 2

Dear Readers~


My latest #TBT blog covers Day 2 of the AVP Gold Series Championships in Chicago, that happened on September 1, 2018, for the third stop of the Gold Series and the final sop for the regular season. The stop for Gold Series #1 was in New York City followed by stop #2 being in Manhattan Beach, California just a few weeks before Chicago. Now it's time to introduce the teams for Day 2 and their results.

The first team is Taylor Crabb and Jake Gibb. The pair played two games on Saturday. The first game was at 2:30 and the second game was at 5:00. The 2:30 game was against Jeremy Casebeer and Reid Priddy. The first set was in favor of Crabb and Gibb. the set ended 22-20. The Third set is where Casebeer and Priddy got their revenge by winning the set 21-19 and leading to a third set. Casebeer and Priddy won the third set 18-16 and giving Crabb and Gibb a lost game. Crabb and Gibb played their second game at 5:00 against Piotr Morciniak and Eric Zaun. Crabb and Gibb got their revenge from the Casebeer and Priddy game by winning both sets. The first set ended 21-18 and the second set ended 21-16. Crabb and Gibb will go on to play at 11:15 on Day 3 against Ed Ratledge and Rafu Rodriguez in the semifinals.
The second team is Alix Klineman and April Ross. The pair played only one game on Day 2. That game was against Brittany Howard and Kelly Reeves at 3:30. Ross and Klineman would later go on to win both sets. The first set was21-16 but the second set was a little closer at 21-18. Klineman and Ross would go on to play Kelly Claes and Brittany Hochevar at 9:15 on Day 3 in the semifinals.

The third team is Casebeer and Priddy. They played 1 game and since that one game was against Taylor Crabb and Jake Gibb, I won't restate what I previously said. I will say that by winning that game, the pair moved to Day 3 at 12:15 where they will later play against Tim Bomgren and Chaim Schalk in the semifinals.

The fourth and final team in today's blog are Kelly Reeves and Brittany Howard. The pair played 2 games. Game 1 was at 3:30 against Alix Klineman and April Ross while game 2 was against Terese Cannon and Sarah Sponcil. I won't state the results of the 3:30 game since I already did that in the above listing under Klineman and Ross but I will list the results of the 6:00 game against Cannon and Sponcil. Reeves and Howard would go on to win the first set 21-16 but Cannon and Sponcil would get their revenge by winning the second set 23-121 and forcing a third set. The third set would end 16-14 in favor of Sponcil and Cannon. That game knocked Howard and Reeves out of the tournament and moved Cannon and Sponcil to the semifinals.

Those are the four teams that were chosen to be shared about. Three of the four advanced to Day 3 but one team fell short.


~J. Miller