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McPeak & Youngs Notch 60th Pro Beach Volleyball 2002 Match Win
Final Eight Women's Teams Seek $20,000 First-Place Prize Saturday's

MANHATTAN BEACH CA (August 9, 2002) Top-seeded Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs continued their winning ways on the 2002 Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) Tour here Friday (August 9) by improving their season match mark to 60-3 during the opening Main Draw rounds of the The AVP 2002 Michelob Light Manhattan Beach Open, presented by Xbox.

While McPeak (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Youngs (Durango, Colo.), the No. 2-ranked team on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with three Gold Medal finishes this season, led the AVP Manhattan Beach "elite eight" into Saturday's final rounds, the 48-team men's competition played two Main Draw rounds.

The $175,000 event will be televised by NBC Sunday from 4-6 p.m. (EDT). It is the first of two national broadcasts for the 2002 AVP Tour. The men's final Sunday will be aired "live" while the women's title match from Saturday will be taped and aired following the men's championship match. Saturday's winning women's team will share the $20,000 first-place prize.

[Source: Tim Simmons, 303/678-8484; 303/678-7474 (FAX), www.bvbinfo.com]