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Dalhausser does it again
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Posted on Jun 02 2006
One of the tallest people to walk off of a plane at the Francisco C. Ada International Airport continued his success run on the AVP Tour this season as Phil Dalhausser and teammate Todd Rogers won the AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open last weekend by knocking off the tandem of Brent Doble and Ryan Mariano in the finals.
Dalhausser and Rogers emerged from the 89 team competition to face their foes in the finals and swept them with 21-17 and 21-18 wins that brought home the $50,000 purse after three days on the beach from Thursday, May 26, to Saturday, May 28, at Huntington Beach, Orange Country, California.
Dalhausser put the finishing touches on the first set when Rogers set him up for a kill that deflected off of Mariano’s hands and he did it again in the second set when he scored the final point with a roller down that went down the line for the championship point.
The win was Dalhausser’s third in a row on the AVP Tour with teammate Rogers and is the fourth if you figure in his win during the 2006 Marianas Cup at the Pacific Islands Club.
In February, Dalhausser joined forces with one of the military’s top guns when he and Jonathan Rosetti defeated local beach king Tyce Mister and Japanese professional Taichi Morikawa in back-to-back sets to take the Marianas Cup Beach Volleyball Festival finals at the PIC.
The tower-like 6’9” Dalhausser and the hard-hitting Rosetti scored 21-11 and 21-16 wins to take the best-of-three finals as the AVP Pro Tour’s leading blocker from 2005 proved to be too much for the competition.
