For those that have seen my blog covering the men's side of the 2019 AVP Austin Open, you'll know that from May 17-19, 2019 the AVP had their second stop of the 2019 season be in Austin, Texas. In the first blog about Austin I covered the men's teams of #5 ranked Tim Bomgren with Troy Field along with #1 ranked Taylor Crabb with Jake Gibb. In this blog I'll be covering the female teams. The teams I chose were #10 ranked Falyn Fonoimoana with Nicolette Martin and #2 ranked Geena Urango with Caitlin Ledoux. Now it's time to cover some of the women's teams competing at Austin.
Up first is the #2 ranked team of Ledoux and Urango. Their first match was against #15 ranked Meghan Mannari and Taylor Nyquist. The first set ended 21-19 with Meghan and Taylor taking that set. The second set ended 21-12 with Ledoux and Urango winning that second set and causing a third set. The third set was close, ending at 16-14 with Meghan and Taylor taking that set and knocking the #2 ranked team into the contender's bracket after their very first match of the tournament. While in the contender's bracket, Ledoux and Urango's next match was against the #7 ranked team of Corinne Quiggle and Amanda Dowdy. The first set eneded 21-14 with Corinne and Amanda taking that set. The second set was much closer, ending at 22-20 with Corinne and Amanda taking that set as well and knocking the #2 ranked team of Ledoux and Urango out of the tournament after playing only 2 matches at that tournament in Austin and going in ranked #2.
Austin was rough for Urango (left) and Ledoux (right) Seattle and New York went much better for the pair
The other female team was the #10 ranked pairing of Falyn and Nicolette. Their first match was against the #7 team Corinne Quiggle and Amanda Dowdy. The first set ended 21-18 with Nicolette and Falyn taking that set. The second set ended 21-19 with Corinne and Amanda taking that set and causing a third set. The third set ended 15-9 with Nicolette and Falyn taking that set and putting Corinne and Amanda in the contender's bracket against Ledoux and Urango. Their next match was against the #15 ranked team of Mannari and Nyquist, the same team that put Ledoux and Urango in the contender's bracket. The first set ended 21-17 in favor of Nicolette and Falyn. The second set ended 21-16 with Meghan and Taylor taking that set and causing a third set to happen. The third set ended 16-14 with Taylor and Meghan winning and knocking Nicolette and Falyn into the contender's bracket. Their next match after that game was against the #12 team of Priscilla Pianta dosi-Lima and Bree Scarbrough. The first set ended 21-18 with Nicolette and Falyn taking that set. The second set ended 24-22 with Nicolette and Falyn taking that set as well and moving on through the contender's bracket. Up next the pair played the #1 ranked team of Emily Day and Betsi Flint. The first set ended 21-17 with Day and Flint taking that set. The second set ended 21-14 with Nicolette and Falyn taking that set and causing a third set to happen. The third set ended at 15-12 with the #10 ranked team of Nicolette and Falyn knocking the #1 ranked team of Betsi and Emily out of the tournament. Their next match was against the #9 ranked team of Janelle Allen, wife to Billy Allen on the men's side, and Kerri Schuh. the first set ended 21-13 with Nicolette and Falyn taking that set. The second set ended at 21-14 with Nicolette and Falyn taking that set as well and knocking Allen and Schuh out of the tournament. By defeating the #9 team, Nicolette and Falyn made it to their first semifinal. They played against the #14 ranked team of Kimberly Hildreth and Sarah Scharmerhorn. Stay tuned for the blog covering the semifinals and finals for how that game went.
The look on their faces shows how excited Nicolette (left) and Falyn (right) were to compete in their first AVP semifinal
That concludes the blog covering 2 of the women's teams competing so stay tuned when the blog covering the finals and semifinals is released to see if Nicolette and Falyn can beat Sarah and Kimberly to advance to the finals or if the pair will fall short and take third place. Until next time, Miller out
~J. Miller
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