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AVP Tour
$183,000 Toyota Hermosa Beach Open presented by Bud Light
June 9 - 11, 2006

(2) 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 Hermosa Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
1997	Did not play	Wayne Seligson - 13th
1997	Mike Diehl - 17th	Sean Scott - 13th
1998	Did not play	Eduardo Bacil - 9th
1999	Did not play	Matt Unger - 17th
2000	Did not play	Ian Clark - 7th
2001	Wayne Seligson - 29th	Kevin Wong - 3rd
2002	Lee LeGrande - 13th	Kevin Wong - 2nd
2003	Did not play	Kevin Wong - 5th
2004	Karch Kiraly - 2nd	Dax Holdren - 7th
2005	John Hyden - 9th	Jake Gibb - 3rd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	5/31-6/4/2006	Croatia Open	19	3	480	US$16,000.00
AVP	5/26-28/2006	Huntington Beach Open	1	3	270	$8,500.00
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

Hermosa Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 6/10/2006

Winner 1

Kyle Denitz / Arri Jeschke (31, Q28)

Won 21-16, 21-10

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	12	8	1	0.583	4	7	4	3
	1	6	2	1	0.167	2	2	3	2
	2	6	6	0	1.000	2	5	1	1
Stein Metzger	Total	20	15	1	0.700	0	5	0	0
	1	12	9	1	0.667	0	3	0	0
	2	8	6	0	0.750	0	2	0	0

Sat, 6/10/2006

Winner 2

Albert Hannemann / Mark Williams (15)

Won 21-13, 21-17

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	15	11	1	0.667	5	2	3	3
	1	6	5	0	0.833	3	2	2	0
	2	9	6	1	0.556	2	0	1	3
Stein Metzger	Total	17	13	2	0.647	0	7	0	2
	1	10	8	1	0.700	0	3	0	1
	2	7	5	1	0.571	0	4	0	1

Sat, 6/10/2006

Winner 3

Brent Doble / Ryan Mariano (10)

Won 24-22, 21-17

0:50

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	21	17	2	0.714	3	7	1	5
	1	12	9	2	0.583	0	5	1	3
	2	9	8	0	0.889	3	2	0	2
Stein Metzger	Total	27	15	2	0.481	0	10	0	0
	1	15	7	0	0.467	0	4	0	0
	2	12	8	2	0.500	0	6	0	0

Sun, 6/11/2006

Winner 4

Jake Gibb / Sean Rosenthal (3)

Won 21-19, 9-21, 20-18

1:01

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	17	5	3	0.118	2	3	1	6
	1	7	2	1	0.143	1	1	0	2
	2	2	0	0	0.000	0	1	0	2
	3	8	3	2	0.125	1	1	1	2
Stein Metzger	Total	58	28	14	0.241	0	11	0	1
	1	20	11	2	0.450	0	4	0	1
	2	18	7	8	-0.056	0	1	0	0
	3	20	10	4	0.300	0	6	0	0

Sun, 6/11/2006

Semi-Finals

Brad Keenan / John Mayer (27, Q3)

Won 21-12, 21-15

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	13	9	3	0.462	4	0	6	4
	1	5	3	1	0.400	1	0	3	1
	2	8	6	2	0.500	3	0	3	3
Stein Metzger	Total	15	12	1	0.733	0	4	0	2
	1	8	7	1	0.750	0	2	0	1
	2	7	5	0	0.714	0	2	0	1

Sun, 6/11/2006

Finals

Phil Dalhausser / Todd Rogers (1)

Lost 21-19, 12-21, 15-17

1:26

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	Total	18	10	4	0.333	8	3	1	7
	1	9	4	3	0.111	4	1	0	5
	2	5	4	1	0.600	0	1	0	1
	3	4	2	0	0.500	4	1	1	1
Stein Metzger	Total	46	22	11	0.239	0	9	0	2
	1	17	10	1	0.529	0	3	0	1
	2	15	7	6	0.067	0	5	0	1
	3	14	5	4	0.071	0	1	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike Lambert	96	60	14	0.479	26	22	16	28
Stein Metzger	183	105	31	0.404	0	46	0	7

Head to Head Results
Lambert/Metzger lead the series against the field 18-7

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Dalhausser/Rogers 1-3
6/11/06	AVP	Hermosa Beach Open	Finals	Dalhausser/Rogers	1	Lambert/Metzger	2	19-21, 21-12, 17-15	1:26
6/3/06	FIVB	Croatia Open	Semi-Finals	Dalhausser/Rogers	13	Lambert/Metzger	19	21-16, 16-21, 15-11	0:54
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
Series tied with # 3 Gibb/Rosenthal 2-2
6/11/06	AVP	Hermosa Beach Open	Winner 4	Lambert/Metzger	2	Gibb/Rosenthal	3	21-19, 9-21, 20-18	1:01
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
Trail the series against # 4 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 # 5 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 # 6 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
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 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 # 10 Doble/Mariano 2-1
6/10/06	AVP	Hermosa Beach Open	Winner 3	Lambert/Metzger	2	Doble/Mariano	10	24-22, 21-17	0:50
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 # 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
Lead the series against # 14 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 # 15 Hannemann/Williams 1-0
6/10/06	AVP	Hermosa Beach Open	Winner 2	Lambert/Metzger	2	Hannemann/Williams	15	21-13, 21-17	0:36
Lead the series against # 16 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 # 27, Q3 Keenan/Mayer 1-0
6/11/06	AVP	Hermosa Beach Open	Semi-Finals	Lambert/Metzger	2	Keenan/Mayer	27, Q3	21-12, 21-15	0:36
Lead the series against # 31, Q28 Denitz/Jeschke 1-0
6/10/06	AVP	Hermosa Beach Open	Winner 1	Lambert/Metzger	2	Denitz/Jeschke	31, Q28	21-16, 21-10	0:34
Lead the series against # Q35 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