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AVP Tour
$250,000 Bud Light Santa Barbara Open
May 18 - 21, 2006

(10) 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 Santa Barbara Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
1992	Did not play	Owen McKibbin - 9th
2001	Carl Henkel - 25th	Rob Heidger - 7th
2002	Did not play	Dax Holdren - 2nd
2004	Phil Dalhausser - 9th	Mike Lambert - 1st
2005	Kevin Wong - 17th	Mike Lambert - 5th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	5/5-7/2006	Tempe Open	7	13th	108	$1,550.00
AVP	3/31-4/2/2006	Fort Lauderdale Open	13	3rd	270	$8,500.00

Santa Barbara Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Fri, 5/19/2006

Winner 1

Chip McCaw / Matt Prosser (23)

Lost 19-21, 21-16, 14-16

1:01

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	25	15	2	0.520	3	4	2	3
	1	11	6	2	0.364	1	2	0	0
	2	12	8	0	0.667	1	2	2	1
	3	2	1	0	0.500	1	0	0	2
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	30	19	5	0.467	2	4	0	2
	1	9	5	1	0.444	1	2	0	2
	2	8	5	1	0.500	1	2	0	0
	3	13	9	3	0.462	0	0	0	0

Fri, 5/19/2006

Contender 1

Brad Keenan / John Mayer (26, Q7)

Won 21-17, 22-20

0:40

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	25	17	1	0.640	2	6	1	4
	1	11	10	1	0.818	0	1	0	3
	2	14	7	0	0.500	2	5	1	1
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	22	13	5	0.364	0	6	1	2
	1	9	6	1	0.556	0	1	0	1
	2	13	7	4	0.231	0	5	1	1

Sat, 5/20/2006

Contender 2

Paul Baxter / Fred Souza (9)

Won 21-16, 22-24, 18-16

1:18

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	46	25	4	0.457	2	20	2	4
	1	14	6	1	0.357	1	8	2	1
	2	15	11	2	0.600	0	6	0	2
	3	17	8	1	0.412	1	6	0	1
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	26	11	3	0.308	5	18	0	2
	1	10	5	0	0.500	2	8	0	2
	2	10	4	1	0.300	3	5	0	0
	3	6	2	2	0.000	0	5	0	0

Sat, 5/20/2006

Contender 3

Matt Heath / Jason Lee (16)

Won 21-19, 11-21, 15-13

1:07

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	32	25	0	0.781	0	9	0	0
	1	15	11	0	0.733	0	3	0	0
	2	8	6	0	0.750	0	3	0	0
	3	9	8	0	0.889	0	3	0	0
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	31	22	0	0.710	0	11	0	0
	1	14	10	0	0.714	0	3	0	0
	2	8	5	0	0.625	0	4	0	0
	3	9	7	0	0.778	0	4	0	0

Sat, 5/20/2006

Contender 4

Ty Loomis / Ed Ratledge (14)

Lost 21-19, 19-21, 14-16

1:09

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	17	10	2	0.471	1	9	0	3
	1	8	6	1	0.625	1	2	0	2
	2	4	3	0	0.750	0	4	0	1
	3	5	1	1	0.000	0	3	0	0
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	56	26	9	0.304	3	11	0	1
	1	14	8	1	0.500	2	1	0	0
	2	24	10	4	0.250	0	7	0	1
	3	18	8	4	0.222	1	3	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	145	92	9	0.572	8	48	5	14
Eric Fonoimoana	165	91	22	0.418	10	50	1	7
Total	310	183	31	0.490	18	98	6	21
Opponents	314	185	28	0.500	21	86	4	18

Head to Head Results
Blanton/Fonoimoana lead the series against the field 7-5 (Lead 6 Series, Trail 5 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 # 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 # 6 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 # 9 Baxter/Souza 1-0
5/20/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 2	Blanton/Fonoimoana	10	Baxter/Souza	9	21-16, 22-24, 18-16	1:18
Trail the series against # 14 Loomis/Ratledge 0-1
5/20/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 4	Loomis/Ratledge	14	Blanton/Fonoimoana	10	19-21, 21-19, 16-14	1:09
Trail the series against # 15 Ceman/Olson 0-1
5/6/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Contender 2	Ceman/Olson	18	Blanton/Fonoimoana	7	36-34, 16-21, 19-17	1:30
Lead the series against # 16 Heath/Lee 1-0
5/20/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 3	Blanton/Fonoimoana	10	Heath/Lee	16	21-19, 11-21, 15-13	1:07
Lead the series against # 17 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
Trail the series against # 23 McCaw/Prosser 0-1
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Winner 1	McCaw/Prosser	23	Blanton/Fonoimoana	10	21-19, 16-21, 16-14	1:01
Lead the series against # 26, Q7 Keenan/Mayer 1-0
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 1	Blanton/Fonoimoana	10	Keenan/Mayer	26, Q7	21-17, 22-20	0:40