Got Beer? got first

Jon Cramer and company reached the top of the mountain on Thursday as Got Beer? saddened You’re My Boy Blue! by taking two of three sets to earn their fifth win of the season as the 2005 Miller Lite Four-Person Beach Volleyball League continued to thrill on the sand courts behind the Pacific Islands Club.

After taking the first set on the chin to Dale Roberts and the Blue, 11-3, Got Beer? poured on the points to take the next two 11-8 and 11-6 to earn bragging rights from Roberts’ raiders. After starting the season favored for the playoffs, You’re My Boy Blue! fell to 3-3 and just out of the post-season picture.

Got Beer? isn’t all too worried about missing the playoffs, and neither is their first place counterparts from America F@&# Yeah!, as they sullied the Sugoi Seven to improve to 5-1 on the season as well.

Mark McDonald was at his best, Chris Nelson was launching fireballs over the net, and Heather Hull was a setting machine as the Americans took the first two sets by a combined 22-7 to clinch the win.

With the victory already in hand, the liberators were unable to complete the sweep as the Sugoi Seven rose to the occasion to stave off the shutout with a narrow 12-10 victory in the final set.

Aschaabw also denied a shutout in their loss to Palaksi, as they fell to 2-4 despite a strong showing on the San Antonio sand. Dustin Rhode, Robert Jordan, Hank Magofña, and Sheila Francisco were unable to thwart Rannel Calexterio’s band of merry men as Palaksi took the first and final sets by a combined 22-9, but the games were much closer than the score indicated.

Not all were able to keep the brooms at bay as the kids from Saipan International School were smoked by Puff, Puff, Pass in straight sets, 11-3, 11-0, and 11-5. Just a few days after playing in the Private Schools Volleyball League playoffs, the SIS Geckos took a thumping to the 3 Ps, but the most surprising sweep came in the following game between Pugua Time! and Lick It, Stick It, Smack It.

Taula and Kadya Peter wasted no time sending Rachel Bandelin’s squad to the ranks of the beaten as they stormed out to take the opening sets 11-5 and 11-4. The Puguans were nearly unstoppable as they caked on the Belau lime to win the third and final set, 11-4.

The win lifted Pugua Time! into the final playoff slot at 3-2 and dropped Lick It, Stick It, Smack It to sixth place at 4-2 with Puff, Puff, Pass.