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AVP Tour
$245,000 AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open
May 26 - 28, 2006

(11) 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 Huntington Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
USAV 1999	Eric Fonoimoana - 9th	Dain Blanton - 9th
2002	Carl Henkel - 13th	Dax Holdren - 1st
2003	Jeff Nygaard - 7th	Kevin Wong - 5th
2004	Jeff Nygaard - 3rd	Did not play
2005	Kevin Wong - 5th	Albert Hannemann - 13th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	5/18-21/2006	Santa Barbara Open	10	9th	208	$3,300.00
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

Huntington Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 1

Aaron Boss / Albert Hannemann (22)

Won 21-14, 21-19

0:47

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	17	12	0	0.706	1	6	1	4
	1	8	5	0	0.625	1	3	0	1
	2	9	7	0	0.778	0	3	1	3
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	22	15	2	0.591	2	7	2	0
	1	9	7	1	0.667	1	5	2	0
	2	13	8	1	0.538	1	2	0	0

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 2

Karch Kiraly / Larry Witt (6)

Lost 18-21, 18-21

0:48

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	41	25	9	0.390	1	8	1	2
	1	20	13	3	0.500	1	5	1	1
	2	21	12	6	0.286	0	3	0	1
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	14	4	4	0.000	0	9	2	1
	1	7	2	2	0.000	0	3	0	0
	2	7	2	2	0.000	0	6	2	1

Sat, 5/27/2006

Contender 2

Brad Keenan / John Mayer (28, Q10)

Won 21-18, 22-20

0:44

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	15	8	1	0.467	1	3	3	3
	1	9	6	1	0.556	0	1	2	2
	2	6	2	0	0.333	1	2	1	1
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	26	9	6	0.115	0	4	1	4
	1	10	4	1	0.300	0	2	1	2
	2	16	5	5	0.000	0	2	0	2

Sat, 5/27/2006

Contender 3

Brent Doble / Ryan Mariano (14)

Lost 19-21, 16-21

0:54

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	Total	21	7	3	0.190	1	10	1	1
	1	13	4	2	0.154	1	7	1	0
	2	8	3	1	0.250	0	3	0	1
Eric Fonoimoana	Total	39	14	5	0.231	0	7	0	1
	1	19	9	3	0.316	0	4	0	0
	2	20	5	2	0.150	0	3	0	1

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Dain Blanton	94	52	13	0.415	4	27	6	10
Eric Fonoimoana	101	42	17	0.248	2	27	5	6
Total	195	94	30	0.328	6	54	11	16
Opponents	198	101	32	0.348	11	61	6	14

Head to Head Results
Blanton/Fonoimoana lead the series against the field 9-7 (Lead 7 Series, Trail 6 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 # 3 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 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 2-1
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 2	Kiraly/Witt	6	Blanton/Fonoimoana	11	21-18, 21-18	0:48
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 # 13 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 # 14 Doble/Mariano 0-1
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 3	Doble/Mariano	14	Blanton/Fonoimoana	11	21-19, 21-16	0:54
Lead the series against # 17 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
Trail the series against # 18 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 # 21 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
Lead the series against # 22 Boss/Hannemann 1-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 1	Blanton/Fonoimoana	11	Boss/Hannemann	22	21-14, 21-19	0:47
Trail the series against # 25 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 # 28, Q10 Keenan/Mayer 2-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 2	Blanton/Fonoimoana	11	Keenan/Mayer	28, Q10	21-18, 22-20	0:44
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 1	Blanton/Fonoimoana	10	Keenan/Mayer	26, Q7	21-17, 22-20	0:40