News Beach volleyball 12/07/2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships enter elimination phase Porto, Portugal, July 12,2013 - Six teams in the men’s competition of the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19World Championships in Porto advanced to the elimination phase on Friday withthree straight wins. Duos from Poland, Austria,Russia, Germany, Norway and USA advanced without set loss. In the women’s five teams didthe same, including Poland’s U21 champions Kociolek and Gruszscynska and U23silver medallist Eduarda and her partner Taina. Brazil’s Eduarda (14): If allgoes well, we will be the championsShe is still one of theyoungest players at the FIVB U19 World Championships in Porto, but 14-year oldEduarda Santos Lisboa certainly plays above her age. She already won gold inthe School World Championships in Italy and silver at the FIVB Beach VolleyballU23 World Championships this year. On Friday, on the last day ofpool play at the FIVB U19 World Championships, Eduarda and her partner TainaSilva Bigi won their pool with three straight wins. More American MVP’s enjoy the sand in PortoTorey DeFalco and Lucas Yoder are both celebratedvolleyball players in the Junior Nationals in the US, but are doing not so badeither on the sand in Porto. They topped their pool with three straight wins atthe FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships. After 2-0 wins over Zimbabwe and Austria they defeated local heroes BernardoMartins and Francisco Pombeiro 21-14 21-18 on Friday. More Italy’s Concetti andZuccarelli beat Russia to top the pool Italy’s Gaia Concetti andAgata Zuccarelli topped their pool on Friday at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19World Championships after a very tight 2-1 (21-16 16-21 21-19) win overRussia’s Daria Myshonkova and Valeriya Shvedova. Both teams booked twostraight wins on Thursday and the final match would bring forth the poolwinner. After winning a set each, the lead in the tiebreak went back and forthuntil the Russians had their first match point at 14-13. After four more matchpoints for Russia and two for Italy, Concetti decided the game with a killblock. More Venezuela take first loss,but still eye a medalAfter finishing 25th in Umagat the FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships just a few weeks agoRonald ‘Bolivar’ Fayola and Jose Gregorio ‘Tigrito’ Gomez from Venezuela havetheir eye on a medal here in Porto at the U19 edition in Porto. Their 2-0 (21-9 21-18) lossto pool winners Mateusz Lysikowski and Tomasz Wierzbicki on Friday did notchange anything to the original plan. More The U19 event continues onSaturday with both men and women playing three rounds of elimination. Only fourteams per gender will remain to compete in the semifinals and medal matches onSunday. The FIVB U19 WorldChampionships in Porto are the final of three FIVB age group events this year.Porto hosted the U19 World Championships before in 2010. FIVB BeachVolleyball U19 World Championships Tournament PageFIVBBeach Volleyball U19 World Championships Girls’ ResultsFIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships Boys’ ResultsFIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships Twitter AccountFIVB Beach Volleyball Facebook Account Print this Page News {{item.LocalShortDate}} {{item.Title}} All the News