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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, November 28, 2005

ISLE FILE
Stanley leads U.S. to silver

Advertiser Staff

Honolulu's Clay Stanley had 10 kills, two aces and a block yesterday to lift the U.S. men's national volleyball team to a 25-16, 25-21, 25-18 victory over China to win the silver medal at the World Grand Champions Cup in Tokyo.

Brazil finished 5-0 to win the gold. The United States was 4-1 and Italy finished third at 3-2.

Stanley, a Kaiser High and University of Hawai'i alum, was third among all scorers in the tournament with 82 points (65 kills, 9 blocks and 8 aces).

METZGER, GIBB THIRD

Punahou alum Stein Metzger and Jake Gibb defeated David Klemperer and Kjell Schneider, 21-14, 28-26, to finish third and split $16,000 at the South Africa Open, the finale of the Swatch-FIVB Beach Volleyball Tour in Cape Town, yesterday.

Marco Araujo and Fabio Magalhaes won the championship.

Gibb and Metzger finished the year with a 92-33 match record and $318,650 in domestic and international earnings.


SAILING

PUNAHOU'S ROBB 2ND

Punahou School senior Drew Robb finished second in the full rig division of the National High School Single-handed Championships off Waikiki yesterday.

Juan Maegli of Portsmouth Abbey (R.I.) won the two-day, 11-race full rig series with 35 points. Robb scored 55. Mitch Hall of Seminole High School, Fla., won the radial rig series with 36 points.

Thirty-four sailors from 15 states competed in the meet.