{"id":1410,"date":"2021-10-24T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:35:15","slug":"2nd-average-joes-kelley-invitational-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/24\/2nd-average-joes-kelley-invitational-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Average Joes Kelley invitational recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ulliman-Kyle-r2sports-home-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1411\"\/><figcaption>Ulliman with the win.  Photo courtesy of Kyle via r2sports home page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While some of us were in Vegas, others in Atlanta \u2026 the Kelley brothers had 20 of their closest east coast (and beyond) friends up in Jersey for a quick two-day shootout. Here&#8217;s the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In the play ins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PA&#8217;s Simon Totive took out fellow PA native Glenn Sincovich<\/li><li>CT&#8217;s Tony Prater took out Jersey&#8217;s Matt Mertz Plumbing, Inc.<\/li><li>Jamie Ferrera took out NY&#8217;s Abraham Mercado<\/li><li>Jersey&#8217;s Julio Infante upset NY&#8217;s Aaron Dardani.<br><br><br>In the 16s:<\/li><li>#1 Kyle Ulliman took out Totive.<\/li><li>#9 Josh Shea with the upset over #8 Jersey native David Austin (who in the preview I mistakenly thought was Austin Cunningham: apologies to both).<\/li><li>#12 host Sam Kelley with the upset win over #5 Brennen Jennings, showing that home court advantage does exist.<\/li><li>#4 Dylan Pruitt cruised past qualifier Prater 4,0<\/li><li>#3 Victor Migliore advanced past qualifier Ferrera<\/li><li>#6 Alex zamudio got a solid win over NY veteran #11 Jason Silvester<\/li><li>#7 Ben Bleyer held serve against CT veteran #10 Jose Flores Jr.<\/li><li>#2 co-host Joe Kelley cruised past qualifier Infante.<br>So, two upsets in the opening round, and some top level talent moving on.<br><br><br>In the quarters:<\/li><li>#1 Ulliman took out the junior from NY Shea<\/li><li>#4 Pruitt held serve against his host Sam to move on<\/li><li>#3 Migliore took out the Floridian Zamudio<\/li><li>#7 Bleyer had the big upset of the round, taking out his host and defending champ Joe Kelley.<br><br><br>In the semis, it was Ohio versus Maryland in both matches:<\/li><li>#1 Ulliman defeated Pruitt<\/li><li>#3 Migliore over Bleyer.<br><br><br>In the final, #1 Kyle lived up to his seeding and defeated Migliore in an all-Ohio final.<br>Congrats to the Kelley brothers once again for putting on a fun event.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some of us were in Vegas, others in Atlanta \u2026 the Kelley brothers had 20 of their closest east coast (and beyond) friends up in Jersey for a quick two-day shootout. Here&#8217;s the results. In the play ins: PA&#8217;s Simon Totive took out fellow PA native Glenn Sincovich CT&#8217;s Tony Prater took out Jersey&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/24\/2nd-average-joes-kelley-invitational-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2nd Average Joes Kelley invitational recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,98],"tags":[52,842,845,804,841,798],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur","category-singles","category-usa","tag-david-austin","tag-glenn-sincovich","tag-julio-infante","tag-matt-mertz","tag-simon-totive","tag-tony-prater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}