After taking second place last year to the tandem of Laura Burley and Linda Anastacio, the dynamic duo of Aleta Glaze and Erika Komatsu resurfaced to take the BSEA Two-Player Grass Volleyball Tournament at American Memorial Park in Garapan.<\/p>\n
Volleyballs filled the air on Saturday as the area\u2019s top men and women dueled on the verdant carpet a stone\u2019s throw from the Philippine Sea, and Glaze-Komatsu capitalized on their skills and patience to sail through the tournament with impressive wins that lead to their dispatching of Anastacio and new teammate Benylynn Mettao, 15-11.<\/p>\n
Glaze-Komatsu wasted little time in the daylong affair, but they started out with a first-round bye that gave them a slight advantage in the nine-team bracket. The duo earned its first win in the double-elimination tournament when they dispatched the powerful pairing of Kelley Butcher and Kadya Peter, 15-9.<\/p>\n
Their second win didn\u2019t come easy as they had to rally from a 13-5 deficit to beat Laurie Peterka and Heather Kennedy by scoring 10 unanswered points to advance further, 15-13. Glaze-Komatsu then faced their first battle with Mettao-Anastacio, in which they won with a convincing 15-7 score before eliminating them from the tournament in their rematch in the finals.<\/p>\n
Mettao-Anastacio had to work a little harder for a spot in the championship, but the duo advanced into the second round of the tournament with a first-round bye. They followed that up with a win over the talented team of Nikki Shryack and Rika Matsumoto, 15-5, before nearly falling to Private Schools Volleyball League MVP Lena Guzman and 2005 CNMI Mini Games player Melissa Halaby, 15-12.<\/p>\n
From there Mettao-Anastacio fell to the losers\u2019 bracket after there first meeting with Glaze-Komatsu, 15-7, but they rebounded with a narrow 16-14 victory over indoor stars Frances Somorang and Sheila Francisco to earn a rematch in the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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