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

(1) Mike Lambert/Stein Metzger

Mike Lambert

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Apr 14, 1974 (50 yrs old)

Home Town:

Kaneohe, HI

Resides:

Costa Mesa, CA

Height:

6'6"

College(s):

Stanford

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

$507,437.50

Stein Metzger

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Nov 17, 1972 (51 yrs old)

Home Town:

Honolulu, HI

Resides:

Redondo Beach, CA

Height:

6'3"

College(s):

UCLA

Seasons:

Tournaments:

213

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$906,393.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
AVP	32	9	6	11	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	$467,525.00
FIVB	10	0	0	2	0	3	0	1	1	3	0	US$105,800.00
Overall	42	9	6	13	0	6	1	2	1	4	0	US$573,325.00

Previous Huntington Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2000	Did not play	Brent Doble - 5th
2001	Collin Smith - 4th	Did not play
2002	Lee LeGrande - 7th	Kevin Wong - 3rd
2003	Did not play	Dax Holdren - 9th
2004	Karch Kiraly - 3rd	Did not play
2005	Karch Kiraly - 1st	Jake Gibb - 3rd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	5/18-21/2006	Santa Barbara Open	1	3	390	$12,000.00
AVP	5/5-7/2006	Tempe Open	1	3	270	$8,500.00
AVP	3/31-4/2/2006	Fort Lauderdale Open	1	2	324	$13,400.00

Huntington Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 1

Billy Allen / Jon Mesko (32, Q60)

Won 21-17, 21-14

0:32

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	21	13	2	0.524	1	3	0	2
	1	13	8	1	0.538	0	3	0	2
	2	8	5	1	0.500	1	0	0	0
Stein Metzger	Total	15	11	0	0.733	1	7	0	1
	1	8	4	0	0.500	1	4	0	1
	2	7	7	0	1.000	0	3	0	0

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 2

Kevin Wong / Scott Wong (16)

Won 22-20, 21-15

0:40

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	20	11	4	0.350	3	6	1	2
	1	17	10	3	0.412	0	3	1	2
	2	3	1	1	0.000	3	3	0	0
Stein Metzger	Total	25	16	4	0.480	0	8	0	0
	1	10	6	1	0.500	0	3	0	0
	2	15	10	3	0.467	0	5	0	0

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 3

Hans Stolfus / Aaron Wachtfogel (8)

Won 21-17, 21-12

0:41

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	25	12	5	0.280	8	2	1	2
	1	10	4	4	0.000	4	1	0	2
	2	15	8	1	0.467	4	1	1	0
Stein Metzger	Total	22	10	1	0.409	0	11	0	1
	1	16	7	1	0.375	0	8	0	1
	2	6	3	0	0.500	0	3	0	0

Sun, 5/28/2006

Winner 4

Matt Fuerbringer / Casey Jennings (4)

Won 21-17, 21-18

0:46

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	11	7	1	0.545	6	0	0	2
	1	7	5	0	0.714	4	0	0	1
	2	4	2	1	0.250	2	0	0	1
Stein Metzger	Total	36	20	4	0.444	0	9	1	2
	1	16	10	2	0.500	0	3	0	2
	2	20	10	2	0.400	0	6	1	0

Sun, 5/28/2006

Semi-Finals

Brent Doble / Ryan Mariano (14)

Lost 21-14, 17-21, 20-22

1:11

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	48	26	8	0.375	2	3	0	2
	1	10	4	0	0.400	1	1	0	1
	2	15	7	5	0.133	0	1	0	1
	3	23	15	3	0.522	1	1	0	0
Stein Metzger	Total	34	20	3	0.500	0	17	1	0
	1	15	8	0	0.533	0	9	0	0
	2	13	9	2	0.538	0	5	1	0
	3	6	3	1	0.333	0	3	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	125	69	20	0.392	20	14	2	10
Stein Metzger	132	77	12	0.492	1	52	2	4

Head to Head Results
Lambert/Metzger lead the series against the field 16-5

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Series tied with # 2 Dalhausser/Rogers 1-1
5/20/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Winner 4	Lambert/Metzger	1	Dalhausser/Rogers	4	21-16, 18-21, 15-13	1:04
5/7/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Winner 4	Dalhausser/Rogers	4	Lambert/Metzger	1	21-19, 21-18	0:50
Trail the series against # 3 Gibb/Rosenthal 1-2
5/7/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Semi-Finals	Gibb/Rosenthal	2	Lambert/Metzger	1	21-18, 21-18	0:49
4/2/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Finals	Gibb/Rosenthal	2	Lambert/Metzger	1	25-23, 21-16	0:58
9/10/05	AVP	Las Vegas Shootout	Finals	Lambert/Metzger	1	Gibb/Rosenthal	3	21-18, 21-18	0:51
Lead the series against # 4 Fuerbringer/Jennings 1-0
5/28/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 4	Lambert/Metzger	1	Fuerbringer/Jennings	4	21-17, 21-18	0:46
Lead the series against # 5 Holdren/Scott 1-0
4/2/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Semi-Finals	Lambert/Metzger	1	Holdren/Scott	3	18-21, 21-19, 15-13	1:07
Trail the series against # 7 Hyden/Nygaard 0-1
5/21/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Semi-Finals	Hyden/Nygaard	7	Lambert/Metzger	1	21-17, 21-10	0:40
Lead the series against # 8 Stolfus/Wachtfogel 3-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 3	Lambert/Metzger	1	Stolfus/Wachtfogel	8	21-17, 21-12	0:41
5/7/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Contender 5	Lambert/Metzger	1	Stolfus/Wachtfogel	15	22-20, 21-18	0:44
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 2	Lambert/Metzger	1	Stolfus/Wachtfogel	16	21-12, 21-17	0:42
Lead the series against # 9 Baxter/Souza 1-0
5/6/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Winner 3	Lambert/Metzger	1	Baxter/Souza	8	19-21, 23-21, 15-10	1:08
Lead the series against # 10 Lucena/Roumain 1-0
5/20/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Winner 3	Lambert/Metzger	1	Lucena/Roumain	8	21-16, 21-16	0:37
Lead the series against # 11 Blanton/Fonoimoana 1-0
4/2/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 4	Lambert/Metzger	1	Blanton/Fonoimoana	13	18-21, 21-11, 15-9	1:00
Series tied with # 14 Doble/Mariano 1-1
5/28/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Semi-Finals	Doble/Mariano	14	Lambert/Metzger	1	14-21, 21-17, 22-20	1:11
5/6/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Winner 2	Lambert/Metzger	1	Doble/Mariano	16	21-19, 23-25, 15-12	1:10
Lead the series against # 16 Wong/Wong 1-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 2	Lambert/Metzger	1	Wong/Wong	16	22-20, 21-15	0:40
Lead the series against # 17 Heath/Lee 1-0
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Winner 2	Lambert/Metzger	1	Heath/Lee	16	21-15, 21-17	0:37
Lead the series against # 31, Q45 Thornton/Zimet 1-0
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Winner 1	Lambert/Metzger	1	Thornton/Zimet	32, Q86	22-20, 21-17	0:43
Lead the series against # 32, Q60 Allen/Mesko 1-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 1	Lambert/Metzger	1	Allen/Mesko	32, Q60	21-17, 21-14	0:32
Lead the series against # Q15 VanZwieten/VanZwieten 1-0
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 1	Lambert/Metzger	1	VanZwieten/VanZwieten	32, Q18	21-17, 21-19	0:38