Mon. - Day Two of Competition

Day 2 of competion was hot and exciting as everyone progressed through pool play qualification brackets. Today's high was 109 degrees outside, but, many of our courts inside provided some exceptional volleyball. The highlight of the day was the 16-1's as they progressed through pool play beating the #5th overall seed in 3 sets and taking their position into day three. The top 16, after tomorrows 3rd round, go on to compete in the Gold Championship Division. Seeds 17-32 progress to the Silver Division. Tuesday will prove to be another exciting day of Festival volleyball. The 16-2's also faired well matching up vs. some very good teams in their pool. They held their seed again this evening starting Tuesday at 99th and setting up for postitioning day for Friday's divisional finals.

The 12-1's started the day as the 14th seed playing the 4th and 20th seeded team's in a couple of hard fought matches, however, slid slightly to 20th overall. Tomorrow's competition will set up for their final day of divsional playoffs on Wednesday.

The 14's played well again and competed against some of the top teams in the tournament with the 14-1's holding their seed at 47, the 14-2's @ 88, and the 14-3's @ 102. Tuesday's and Wednesday's pool play will set up final positioning for the divisional finals on Friday.

In this afternoon's pool play our 15's teams it was the 15-3's that took advantage of some better play and moved up 24 spots from 87 to 63 seed to start off round 3 of divisional positioning. Our 15-2's started the day at 81 slipping slightly to 88th, while the 15-1 and 15-4's holding their seeds at 69 and 94 respectively. Tomorrow, our 15-2's and 15-4's will compete against each other in a 5 team pool to set up the remainder of the tournament divisionals.

It was another long and hot day in the desert and we're not quite to the halfway mark. Thank you for the support of many of the parents that are here in Phoenix. Many more will be coming in tomorrow to join us to spectate the largest amatuer event in the world, the Volleyball Festival.

Take to you again on day 3.............