{"id":1502,"date":"2022-01-13T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2022-01-13T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:07:17","slug":"3wallball-socal-outdoor-season-kickoff-invitational-shootout-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/13\/3wallball-socal-outdoor-season-kickoff-invitational-shootout-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"3WallBall SoCal Outdoor Season Kickoff Invitational Shootout Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Danny Lavely powered his team to victory in the season opening shootout. Photo via Outdoor Nats 2021\/Steve Fitzsimons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To kick off the 2022 season, on January 8th 2022\u00a03Wall Ball<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0MC Vegas<\/a>\u00a0hosted an invitational Outdoor shootout at the courts of West Newport Park, right on Highway 1 in Newport Beach, California. These 3-wall\/mid-wall courts are Rocky Carson ‘s favorite, his “home courts” that he practices on most frequently, and he was part of one of nine top-level teams invited to play in this shootout. Some of the players were rusty; it had been several weeks of inaction for most of the competitors, but eight games of round robin cleared off the dust by day’s end for everyone. And the shootout featured a great collection of top talent from SoCal and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a recap of the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nine teams played a pure round-robin, one-game to 11 against the other eight teams, making for a ton of racquetball on the day. The top 6 teams from the RR stage advanced to a knockout round. Two teams dominated in the RRs (Geis\/Rich and Lavely\/Solis) going 8-0 and 7-1 respectively, and looked to be the favorites for the cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how the knockouts went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the quarters:
– #5 @Tom Durham and @Matt Barserian upset #4 @Tony Berg and @Scott Sinclair 15-10. This is a great result for the relatively unknown Barserian, who (like Micah Rich) is a great player who plays recreationally and can put up results when he’s in practice.
– #3 Rick Koll<\/a> (aka “Soda Man”) and Emmett Coe took out the home-court playing Carson and his regular partner @Jesus Ustarroz 15-11. Soda Man traveled to LA with Coulter from Vegas and teamed up with the ever-tough Paddleball champion Coe to take out the two-time Outdoor National champs Carson & Jay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the semis:
– #1 @Jason Geis and @Micah Rich, your 2021 Outdoor National champs and Vegas 3WB pro finalists, topped Durham\/Barserian 15-5 to move into the final.
– #2 @Greg Solis, WOR Hall of Fame inductee in 2018, and partner @Danny Lavely crushed Koll & Coe 15-2 to move into the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final, Lavely got hot and made the best adjustments to the fast penn ball being used, took advantage of some tiring arms after a long day, and pushed his team to the upset win over #1 Geis\/Rich 15-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to @Mike Martinez and @prokennex for stopping by, thanks to 3WB and other sponsors, thanks to Coulter as always for his support of the sport, and thanks to the players for putting on a show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photos courtesy of Mike Coulter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To kick off the 2022 season, on January 8th 2022\u00a03Wall Ball\u00a0and\u00a0MC Vegas\u00a0hosted an invitational Outdoor shootout at the courts of West Newport Park, right on Highway 1 in Newport Beach, California. These 3-wall\/mid-wall courts are Rocky Carson ‘s favorite, his “home courts” that he practices on most frequently, and he was part of one of … <\/p>\n

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