Touch It! Smackey, the No. 2 seed in the Gold Division, beat the Pink Flamingos 25-15, 24-26, 25-22 on March 12 to advance to the Gold Division championship match to be played on March 19.
Smackey (Lynnette Chen, Sean Mackey, Marcus Haynes, and JJ O'Connell) will play the winner from the other half of the playoff bracket: top seed McCreakersons (Ann Lee Yuan, Tom Narath, Jim Findura, and Roman Bulowski) plays No. 8 Spike U at 7:30, with Brooks, the fifth seed, waiting to play the winner in the semifinals. The championship match will follow.
JJ led Smackey with 23 kills in the victory over the Flamingos, while Marcus had 18 kills and 3 aces and Sean chipped in 16 kills. Lynnette did the setting.
A key play in the third game was a diving save by Marcus, into the bleachers, on a long rally that was eventually ended with a kill by JJ that made the score 19-17 in favor of the Flamingos. The Flamingos also led 21-18 after Eric Krick's third ace of the match, but Smackey took advantage of Eric being in the back row to tie the game at 21-21.
After a kill by Scott Doyle (7 in the match) gave Flamingos a 22-21 lead, Smackey scored the last 4 points on a kill by Marcus, an ace by Marcus, a kill by JJ, and another ace by Marcus.
Eric finished with 22 kills for the Flamingos, while Chris Jenkins added 3 kills, 3 blocks, and an ace. Setter Linda Delancy had 3 kills and 3 aces.
In the Silver Division playoffs, Team Ultra (Edna Cetina, Jeff Shirtz, Jim Elliott and Alex Desau) and the Flying Squirrels (Mellissa Eckoff, Scott Shaw, Mark Menadier, and AJ Prentice) will play in the championship match on March 19.
Ultra, the top seed, beat Team 5 in the quarterfinals, 25-9, 25-7. They beat the Scarlett Pimpernels 25-15, 18-25, 15-5 in the semis.
The Squirrels, the sixth seed, beat No. 3 Stu's Crew 25-22, 25-18 in the quarterfinals, then beat No. 7 Cupsaw 28-26, 25-17 in the semifinals.
(edited to fix Marcus' last name misspelling).
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