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AVP Tour
$125,000 Manhattan Beach Open Presented by Bud Light
June 4 - 6, 2004

(2) Sean Rosenthal/Larry Witt

Sean Rosenthal

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 19, 1980 (44 yrs old)

Home Town:

Redondo Beach, CA

Height:

6'4"

Seasons:

Tournaments:

282

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$1,357,265.00

Larry Witt

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 13, 1979 (45 yrs old)

Home Town:

Santa Ynez, CA

Height:

6'6"

College(s):

Stanford

Seasons:

Tournaments:

105

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

$194,770.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	CQ	Money
AVP	33	2	3	7	0	6	7	6	1	1	0	0	$201,010.00
FIVB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	US$3,500.00
Overall	35	2	3	7	0	6	7	6	1	1	1	1	US$204,510.00

Previous Manhattan Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
1999	Did not play	Devin Poolman - 25th
2000	Jeff Carlucci - 41st	Brent Frohoff - 9th
2001	Mark Williams - 17th	Andy Witt - 13th
2002	Mark Williams - 7th	Did not play
2003	Larry Witt - 7th	Sean Rosenthal - 7th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	5/28-30/2004	Huntington Beach Open	1	2nd	324	$9,750.00
AVP	4/30-5/2/2004	Austin Open	3	5th	216	$3,500.00
AVP	4/23-25/2004	Tempe Open	1	17th	72	$500.00
AVP	4/2-4/2004	Fort Lauderdale Open	6	1st	360	$14,500.00
FIVB	3/16-21/2004	Brazil Open		Country Quota	0	US$0.00
FIVB	9/18-21/2003	United States Grand Slam	32	25th	60	US$3,500.00
AVP	9/4-6/2003	Las Vegas AVP Shootout	3	3rd	324	$7,500.00
AVP	8/28-31/2003	Chicago Open	4	7th	216	$3,000.00
AVP	8/14-17/2003	Huntington Beach Open	5	3rd	324	$6,990.00
AVP	8/7-10/2003	Manhattan Beach Open	6	7th	216	$3,000.00
AVP	7/25-27/2003	Belmar Open	8	1st	360	$14,500.00
AVP	6/13-15/2003	San Diego Open	7	9th	144	$1,600.00
AVP	6/6-8/2003	Hermosa Beach Open	5	5th	260	$4,200.00

Manhattan Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 6/5/2004

Winner 1

Casey Patterson / Dennis Roberts (31, Q22)

Won 22-20, 21-15

0:40

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Sean Rosenthal	Total	19	10	4	0.316	0	13	2	2
	1	13	7	4	0.231	0	9	1	1
	2	6	3	0	0.500	0	4	1	1
Larry Witt	Total	22	9	1	0.364	1	9	1	1
	1	10	2	1	0.100	0	4	0	1
	2	12	7	0	0.583	1	5	1	0

Sat, 6/5/2004

Winner 2

Matt Heath / Adam Roberts (15)

Won 22-20, 21-17

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Sean Rosenthal	Total	12	9	1	0.667	1	5	1	2
	1	6	4	0	0.667	0	2	0	1
	2	6	5	1	0.667	1	3	1	1
Larry Witt	Total	31	23	4	0.613	0	5	1	4
	1	17	14	2	0.706	0	4	1	1
	2	14	9	2	0.500	0	1	0	3

Sat, 6/5/2004

Winner 3

Canyon Ceman / Mike Whitmarsh (7)

Lost 22-24, 16-21

0:47

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Sean Rosenthal	Total	17	10	2	0.471	2	11	0	3
	1	9	7	1	0.667	2	4	0	2
	2	8	3	1	0.250	0	7	0	1
Larry Witt	Total	30	22	2	0.667	0	5	2	1
	1	17	10	2	0.471	0	3	2	0
	2	13	12	0	0.923	0	2	0	1

Sat, 6/5/2004

Contender 4

Paul Baxter / Scott Wong (13)

Won 21-16, 21-15

0:45

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Sean Rosenthal	Total	14	9	0	0.643	2	6	4	4
	1	8	5	0	0.625	0	5	4	1
	2	6	4	0	0.667	2	1	0	3
Larry Witt	Total	27	19	4	0.556	2	3	0	3
	1	16	9	3	0.375	2	2	0	2
	2	11	10	1	0.818	0	1	0	1

Sun, 6/6/2004

Contender 5

Dain Blanton / Jeff Nygaard (3)

Lost 22-20, 19-21, 9-15

0:58

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Sean Rosenthal	Total	28	10	7	0.107	3	7	1	4
	1	7	2	3	-0.143	0	2	0	2
	2	12	5	2	0.250	2	3	0	1
	3	9	3	2	0.111	1	2	1	1
Larry Witt	Total	31	20	2	0.581	1	9	2	2
	1	15	11	0	0.733	0	3	1	2
	2	10	5	2	0.300	1	4	1	0
	3	6	4	0	0.667	0	2	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Sean Rosenthal	90	48	14	0.378	8	42	8	15
Larry Witt	141	93	13	0.567	4	31	6	11
Total	231	141	27	0.494	12	73	14	26
Opponents	246	133	28	0.427	9	59	7	24

Head to Head Results
Rosenthal/Witt lead the series against the field 22-16 (Lead 8 Series, Trail 3 Series, 3 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Ring/Roumain 0-1
5/30/04	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Finals	Ring/Roumain	3	Rosenthal/Witt	1	21-12, 21-16	0:47
Series tied with # 3 Blanton/Nygaard 3-3
6/6/04	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Contender 5	Blanton/Nygaard	3	Rosenthal/Witt	2	20-22, 21-19, 15-9	0:58
5/30/04	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 4	Rosenthal/Witt	1	Blanton/Nygaard	4	19-21, 21-18, 15-10	0:58
9/6/03	AVP	Las Vegas AVP Shootout	Semi-Finals	Blanton/Nygaard	7	Rosenthal/Witt	3	21-17, 21-18	0:37
8/31/03	AVP	Chicago Open	Contender 5	Blanton/Nygaard	8	Rosenthal/Witt	4	18-21, 21-12, 19-17	0:53
8/16/03	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 5	Rosenthal/Witt	5	Blanton/Nygaard	7	21-18, 21-18	0:38
4/5/03	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Contender 4	Rosenthal/Witt	26	Blanton/Nygaard	12	21-19, 21-12	0:39
Lead the series against # 4 Kiraly/Lambert 2-0
5/30/04	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Semi-Finals	Rosenthal/Witt	1	Kiraly/Lambert	2	22-20, 21-19	0:40
4/4/04	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Contender 5	Rosenthal/Witt	6	Kiraly/Lambert	2	18-21, 24-22, 15-11	1:01
Lead the series against # 5 Hyden/Witt 2-0
5/28/04	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 3	Rosenthal/Witt	1	Hyden/Witt	9	21-10, 21-12	0:41
4/3/04	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 2	Rosenthal/Witt	6	Hyden/Witt	11	19-21, 21-18, 15-9	0:53
Series tied with # 6 Fuerbringer/Jennings 4-4
5/1/04	AVP	Austin Open	Winner 3	Fuerbringer/Jennings	6	Rosenthal/Witt	3	21-19, 21-19	0:42
4/4/04	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Finals	Rosenthal/Witt	6	Fuerbringer/Jennings	3	21-17, 21-14	0:50
4/3/04	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 3	Fuerbringer/Jennings	3	Rosenthal/Witt	6	21-15, 19-21, 15-13	1:03
3/16/04	FIVB	Brazil Open	Country Quota	Fuerbringer/Jennings		Rosenthal/Witt		22-20, 21-17	0:42
9/4/03	AVP	Las Vegas AVP Shootout	Winner 1	Rosenthal/Witt	3	Fuerbringer/Jennings	6	21-19, 18-21, 15-12	0:56
7/27/03	AVP	Belmar Open	Finals	Rosenthal/Witt	8	Fuerbringer/Jennings	4	21-16, 18-21, 15-12	1:06
7/27/03	AVP	Belmar Open	Winner 4	Rosenthal/Witt	8	Fuerbringer/Jennings	4	21-19, 21-18	0:43
6/14/03	AVP	San Diego Open	Contender 4	Fuerbringer/Jennings	6	Rosenthal/Witt	7	16-21, 22-20, 15-12	0:57
Trail the series against # 7 Ceman/Whitmarsh 0-2
6/5/04	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 3	Ceman/Whitmarsh	7	Rosenthal/Witt	2	24-22, 21-16	0:47
8/30/03	AVP	Chicago Open	Winner 3	Ceman/Whitmarsh	5	Rosenthal/Witt	4	24-26, 21-17, 15-10	0:56
Lead the series against # 8 Gibb/Jewell 2-1
5/2/04	AVP	Austin Open	Contender 5	Gibb/Jewell	12	Rosenthal/Witt	3	17-21, 29-27, 15-12	1:13
8/16/03	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 2	Rosenthal/Witt	5	Gibb/Jewell	11	21-18, 24-22	0:46
7/26/03	AVP	Belmar Open	Winner 2	Rosenthal/Witt	8	Gibb/Jewell	9	21-17, 17-21, 15-13	1:03
Lead the series against # 9 Fonoimoana/Wong 2-1
5/2/04	AVP	Austin Open	Contender 4	Rosenthal/Witt	3	Fonoimoana/Wong	5	21-14, 21-19	0:42
8/17/03	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 6	Rosenthal/Witt	5	Fonoimoana/Wong	6	20-22, 21-18, 15-10	1:05
8/9/03	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Contender 6	Fonoimoana/Wong	7	Rosenthal/Witt	6	21-17, 21-17	0:50
Lead the series against # 13 Baxter/Wong 1-0
6/5/04	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Contender 4	Rosenthal/Witt	2	Baxter/Wong	13	21-16, 21-15	0:45
Series tied with # 14 Mowrey/Ratledge 1-1
5/1/04	AVP	Austin Open	Winner 2	Rosenthal/Witt	3	Mowrey/Ratledge	14	21-12, 18-21, 15-13	1:08
4/24/04	AVP	Tempe Open	Winner 2	Mowrey/Ratledge	17	Rosenthal/Witt	1	21-19, 22-24, 15-3	0:59
Lead the series against # 15 Heath/Roberts 3-2
6/5/04	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 2	Rosenthal/Witt	2	Heath/Roberts	15	22-20, 21-17	0:34
5/28/04	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 2	Rosenthal/Witt	1	Heath/Roberts	16	21-18, 21-12	0:38
4/24/04	AVP	Tempe Open	Contender 1	Heath/Roberts	18	Rosenthal/Witt	1	24-22, 21-18	0:38
6/14/03	AVP	San Diego Open	Winner 1	Heath/Roberts	26, Q1	Rosenthal/Witt	7	21-16, 11-21, 15-8	0:47
6/7/03	AVP	Hermosa Beach Open	Winner 1	Rosenthal/Witt	5	Heath/Roberts	28, Q1	21-18, 21-19	0:39
Trail the series against # 18 Clark/Davenport 0-1
4/5/03	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 2	Clark/Davenport	10	Rosenthal/Witt	26	21-19, 21-17	0:40
Lead the series against # 31, Q22 Patterson/Roberts 1-0
6/5/04	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 1	Rosenthal/Witt	2	Patterson/Roberts	31, Q22	22-20, 21-15	0:40
Lead the series against # Q50 Allen/Tramblie 1-0
5/28/04	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 1	Rosenthal/Witt	1	Allen/Tramblie	32, Q66	21-14, 21-14	0:32