From May 17-19, 2019 the AVP had their second stop of the 2019 season in Austin, Texas. The two men's teams I'll be covering are #5 ranked Tim Bomgren and Troy Field as the first men's team along with #1 ranked Taylor Crabb and Jake Gibb as the second men's team I'll be covering.
Up first is the #5 ranked team of Bomgren and Field. After making it to the semifinals in Huntington Beach, the pair really wanted to make it to the finals so stay tuned to see what they do to make that happen. Their first match was against the #12 ranked team of Duncan Budinger, Chase Budinger's older brother, and Kyle Friend. The first set ended 21-18 with Bomgren and Field taking that set. the second set ended 21-15 with Bomgren and Field taking that set as well and getting a 2-0 sweep over Budinger and Friend. The next match they played was against #4 ranked Jeremy Casebeer and Chaim Schalk. The first set ended 21-19 with Casebeer and Schalk taking that set. The second set ended 21-14 with Casebeer and Schalk taking that set as well and getting a 2-0 sweep over Bomgren and Field, sending them to the contender's bracket. While in the contender's bracket, the first team they played there was the #10 ranked pair of Michael Brunsting and Ty Loomis. The first set ended 21-19 with Brunsting and Loomis taking that set. The second set ended 21-17 with Bomgren and Field taking that second set and causing a third set to happen. The third set ended at 15-12 with Bomgren and Field taking the third set and moving on. Their next game was against the #14 ranked team of Skyler del Sol and Bruno Amorim. The first set ended 21-14 with Bomgren and Field taking the first set. The second set ended at 21-16 with Bomgren and Field taking that set as well and knocking another team out of the tournament. Their next match was against #3 ranked team of Ed Ratledge and Rafu Rodriguez, the 2018 AVP San Francisco Open champions. the first set was close, ending at 23-21 with Bomgren and Field taking that set. The second set ended 21-18 with Ratledge and Rogriguez winning that set and causing a third set to happen. the third set ended 15-6 with Bomgren and Field winning the game and knocking the #3 ranked team out of the tournament. Their next game was against #4 Casebeer and Schalk for the second time at this tournament, because it was the semifinals that game will be covered in a later blog when I cover the semifinals and finals of the men's and women's teams competing in Austin.
Tim (black hat) and Troy (pink hat) celebrate after making it to their second consecutive semifinal of the 2019 AVP season and only their second tournament together. Don't forget to follow them on Instagram to keep up with their 2019 season: @troyfield_beach and @timbomgren
The second men's team I'll be covering is the #1 ranked team of Jake and Taylor. Their first match was against the #16 ranked team of Paul Lotman and Gabriel Ospina. The first set ended 21-18 with Taylor and Jake taking the first set. The second set was much closer, ending at 23-21 with Lotman and Ospina taking that set and causing a third set to happpen. That third set ended 15-13 with Lotman and Ospina taking that set and knocking Jake and Taylor into the contender's bracket. Taylor and Jake's next game was against the unranked pair of Mark Burik and Ian Satterfield. Taylor and Jake won the first set 21-19 as well as the second set at 21-18 and moving on while Burik and Satterfield got knocked out of the tournament. Their next game was against#6 Eric Zaun and Avery Drost. The first set ended 21-16 with Taylor and Jake winning that set as well as winning the second set 21-13 and knocking Drost and Zaun out of the tournament. the next team they played was against #7 ranked Chase Frishman and Piotr Marciniak. The first set ended 21-17 with Taylor and Jake taking that set. The second set ended 21-19 with Frishman and Marciniak taking that set and causing a third set to happen. The third set ended at 15-10 with Taylor and Jake winning the set and knocking Frishman and Marciniak out of the tournament. Their next match was against #9 Sean Rosenthal and Ricardo Santos. This game was tough because this would determine who would be in the semifinals. The first set of the match ended 21-19 in favor of Rosenthal and Santos. The second set ended 21-18 with Taylor and Jake getting their revenge and causing a third set. The third set ended 15-12 with Taylor and Jake winning the set and moving on to the semifinals as well as knocking Rosenthal and Santos out of the tournament. Taylor and Jake's next game is against the #2 ranked team of Phil Dalhuasser and Nick Lucena. With this game being the semifinals, you'll have to wait until the blog talking about the semifinals and finals comes out to see how that game went.
This is Taylor and Jake's reaction after making it to the semifinals after defeating Rosenthal and Santos. Don't forget to follow both of these on Instagram: @jakesgibb and @trcrabbs
That concludes the men's tournament from the 2019 AVP Austin Open. Don't forget to check out my previous blogs covering some of the teams that competed at the 2019 AVP Huntington Beach Open back in early May. Stay tuned for my next blog when I cover some of the female teams that competed there at the 2019 AVP Austin Open. Until next time, Miller out
~J. Miller
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