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Showdown in the sand rescheduled
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Posted on Feb 08 2006
The top women’s beach volleyball teams will have to wait before deciding once and for all the CNMI’s representatives in the 2006 Micronesian Games as the best-of-three showdown between the two tandems was postponed late Tuesday evening.
Top seeded Laurie Peterka and Heather Kennedy were set to take on Melissa Halaby and Lena Guzman at the Pacific Islands Club last night, but both squads agree to push back the date due to scheduling difficulties.
Now Peterka-Kennedy will face half of last year’s Mini Games team that went to Palau and the Private Schools League MVP this Saturday morning at 10am at the PIC for the title of the Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association’s top guns.
After emerging from four rounds of NMIVA’s qualifying tournaments with 100 points, Peterka-Kennedy earned the top spot in the final showdown with a pair of firsts, a second, and a fifth place tournament finish.
Halaby-Guzman was second best with 84 points in the qualifying series with a second, two thirds, and a fifth place finish.
While a cast of rising stars and cagey veterans competed to march behind the latte stone, star, and mwarmwar this summer, only the top two earned the bid. Stephanie Arnold and Jazmine Anastacio finished third in the race with 66 points, while veterans Benylynn Mettao and Sia Maui Dela Cruz came in fourth with 44 points.
