Nicole Branagh and Youngs as well proceed

Reigning Olympic beach volleyball gold medalists Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers motivated during Friday play invincible at the AVP Crocs Tour Huntington Beach Open. Top-seeded Dalhausser/Rogers bang 32nd-seeded Pepe Delahoz and Scott Lane, 21-18, 21-13, and16th-seeded Jose Loiola as well as Larry Witt, 21-17, 22-20, to budge into Saturday’s third round. Dalhausser/Rogers will play ninth-seeded Ed Ratledge, who stays in Huntington Beach and Ryan Mariano at 10:30 a.m. Top-seeded women’s team Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs moreover stimulated on safe and sound. They strike 32nd-seeded Patti Cook and Jill Muhe, 21-11, 21-12, and 16th-seeded Diane Pascua and Alicia Polzin, 22-20, 21-19, to go on. Branagh/Youngs will play 8th-seeded Priscilla Lima and Tatiana Minello at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Branagh and Youngs, winners of three of the year’s first four tournaments, currently have a 21-1 match proof this time. In cooperation second seeds - Jake Gibb/Sean Rosenthal and Jen Kessy/April Ross - also stirred on unbeatable. Going on both sides of depict, the twelfth-seeded team distress the fifth seeds. On the women’s side, twelfth-seeded Stacy Rouwenhorst/Whitney Pavlik overwhelmed No. 5 seeds Carrie Dodd/Dianne DeNecochea 21-19, 22-24, 15-13. On the men’s, twelfth-seeded Ty Loomis/Casey Patterson took away fifth-seeded Brad Keenan/Nick Lucena 21-15, 18-21, 17-15. The AVP Crocs Tour Huntington Beach Open is a charming place at the Huntington Beach Pier all the way through Sunday.