INTERNATIONAL STARS DOMINATE

A.P., Key Largo, FL, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005
(Gary Calder reporting)

The 2005, 6th Annual America Outdoors Campground Beach Volleyball Tournament had a decidedly international flair yesterday as stars from London and Prague led strong foursomes into the finals of the 64 player, 16 team match-ups on the beach court.

The "All The Marbles" championship trophy was won in a lopsided, dominant
15 - 2 victory by the "SNAPPERS" over a dazed "LOST MARBLES" contingent.

Tournament MVP Kevin Combs, a former King's College, S.C. basketball player, playing in his first tourney here, teamed with another rookie, Prague test pilot Chip Erwin, to play textbook dig-set-spike volleyball and overwhelm the mostly "hit 'n hope" styles of the other 15 teams.

Fourteen-year-old female-phenom, Taryn Lewis, out of Cincinnati, put on a digging demonstration that befuddled most of her elder competitors and garnered her Rookie-of-the-Year as well as "Best-Digger" honors.
 

London's James "Touchy" Fealey added a measure of long absent finesse to the sand venue in a valiant but losing Finals effort, while "Best All-Around Athlete" Dave Bliss out of Cornell ('63 - '66 basketball) showed the crowd the veterans could still "bring-it."

With the permanent closing of America Outdoors at the end of March, 2006 the tournament moves to a new locale' next year probably at the Miami Everglades Campground. Watch for the announcement at: http://www.florida.davidlpark.com or e-mail david@davidpark.com  for more info.