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$245,000 AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Fort Lauderdale Open
March 31 - April 2, 2006

(13) Dain Blanton/Eric Fonoimoana

Dain Blanton

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Nov 28, 1971 (52 yrs old)

Home Town:

Laguna Beach, CA

Height:

6'3"

College(s):

Pepperdine

Seasons:

Tournaments:

256

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$720,032.75

Eric Fonoimoana

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 7, 1969 (55 yrs old)

Home Town:

Manhattan Beach, CA

Height:

6'3"

College(s):

California-Santa Barbara

Seasons:

Tournaments:

293

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$1,000,809.50

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
AVP	46	3	7	9	2	7	7	4	3	2	2	$272,387.00
BVA	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$12,500.00
FIVB	31	1	1	1	3	3	3	10	5	4	0	US$194,400.00
USAV	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$13,750.00
Overall	81	5	8	12	5	10	10	15	8	6	2	US$493,037.00

Previous Fort Lauderdale Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2003	Jeff Nygaard - 9th	Dax Holdren - 1st
2004	Jeff Nygaard - 9th	Kevin Wong - 9th
2005	Kevin Wong - 3rd	Adam Jewell - 13th

Recent Results Have not played together in the last year

Fort Lauderdale Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 4/1/2006

Winner 1

AJ Mihalic / Chad Mowrey (20)

Won 13-21, 21-15, 15-13

1:08

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	31	16	3	0.419	1	7	0	3
	1	13	5	1	0.308	0	2	0	1
	2	11	7	1	0.545	0	5	0	0
	3	7	4	1	0.429	1	0	0	2
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	30	12	5	0.233	5	1	0	3
	1	14	5	2	0.214	1	1	0	0
	2	7	2	1	0.143	2	0	0	2
	3	9	5	2	0.333	2	0	0	1

Sat, 4/1/2006

Winner 2

Karch Kiraly / Larry Witt (4)

Won 21-18, 21-18

0:42

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	31	22	3	0.613	0	11	1	3
	1	14	9	2	0.500	0	6	0	2
	2	17	13	1	0.706	0	5	1	1
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	18	10	2	0.444	3	9	1	1
	1	13	7	2	0.385	3	5	1	1
	2	5	3	0	0.600	0	4	0	0

Sat, 4/1/2006

Winner 3

Matt Fuerbringer / Casey Jennings (5)

Won 21-18, 21-16

0:46

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	34	14	8	0.176	2	9	1	1
	1	20	8	5	0.150	1	1	0	0
	2	14	6	3	0.214	1	8	1	1
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	13	8	1	0.538	4	3	1	1
	1	4	2	1	0.250	4	2	1	1
	2	9	6	0	0.667	0	1	0	0

Sun, 4/2/2006

Winner 4

Mike Lambert / Stein Metzger (1)

Lost 21-18, 11-21, 9-15

1:00

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	25	11	5	0.240	2	12	0	2
	1	13	9	1	0.615	0	5	0	1
	2	8	2	1	0.125	1	4	0	1
	3	4	0	3	-0.750	1	3	0	0
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	50	19	10	0.180	0	14	0	0
	1	14	8	1	0.500	0	7	0	0
	2	22	6	5	0.045	0	5	0	0
	3	14	5	4	0.071	0	2	0	0

Sun, 4/2/2006

Contender 6

Karch Kiraly / Larry Witt (4)

Won 26-28, 21-19, 15-13

1:29

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	48	26	6	0.417	3	13	0	0
	1	22	14	4	0.455	1	5	0	0
	2	14	7	2	0.357	1	4	0	0
	3	12	5	0	0.417	1	4	0	0
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	34	19	3	0.471	1	16	1	5
	1	10	7	1	0.600	1	3	1	1
	2	17	11	1	0.588	0	9	0	3
	3	7	1	1	0.000	0	4	0	1

Sun, 4/2/2006

Semi-Finals

Jake Gibb / Sean Rosenthal (2)

Lost 18-21, 13-21

0:43

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	17	3	7	-0.235	0	5	1	1
	1	4	1	1	0.000	0	3	0	1
	2	13	2	6	-0.308	0	2	1	0
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	33	14	2	0.364	0	5	0	2
	1	19	10	2	0.421	0	4	0	1
	2	14	4	0	0.286	0	1	0	1

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	186	92	32	0.323	8	57	3	10
Eric Fonoimoana	178	82	23	0.331	13	48	3	12
Total	364	174	55	0.327	21	105	6	22
Opponents	343	177	46	0.382	23	120	6	24

Head to Head Results
Blanton/Fonoimoana lead the series against the field 4-2 (Lead 3 Series, Trail 2 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Lambert/Metzger 0-1
4/2/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 4	Lambert/Metzger	1	Blanton/Fonoimoana	13	18-21, 21-11, 15-9	1:00
Trail the series against # 2 Gibb/Rosenthal 0-1
4/2/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Semi-Finals	Gibb/Rosenthal	2	Blanton/Fonoimoana	13	21-18, 21-13	0:43
Lead the series against # 4 Kiraly/Witt 2-0
4/2/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Contender 6	Blanton/Fonoimoana	13	Kiraly/Witt	4	26-28, 21-19, 15-13	1:29
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 2	Blanton/Fonoimoana	13	Kiraly/Witt	4	21-18, 21-18	0:42
Lead the series against # 5 Fuerbringer/Jennings 1-0
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 3	Blanton/Fonoimoana	13	Fuerbringer/Jennings	5	21-18, 21-16	0:46
Lead the series against # 20 Mihalic/Mowrey 1-0
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 1	Blanton/Fonoimoana	13	Mihalic/Mowrey	20	13-21, 21-15, 15-13	1:08