CASR TOURNAMENT PREVIEW
Camarillo El Grande #1 8/27-8/28
The California Roundnet 2022 season continues this Saturday (8/27) in the small town of Camarillo! Big shout out to Camarillo Roundnet for helping us put this one together. Camarillo Coast Roundnet Club popped up during covid with Warner Curtis and Jacob Payer doing great things in the area with their consistent pickups and trivia nights. A lot is on the line this weekend with players in the 4.0-4.5 Contender Division getting the chance to earn Expert Status which allows them to play in our top divisions. The 5.0-5.5 Expert Division and 4.0-4.5 Women’s Division will have CASR State team points and prize money up for grabs.
#CaliRoundnetcommunity Shoutout
Big shoutout to Jacob Payer & Warner Curtis of Camarillo Roundnet for helping with field/after party
Big shoutout to Perrin York for help organizing the Women's division and Co-Ed division
Big shoutout to our sponsors
NOTES
Big shoutout to 4 California players who will be heading to Worlds in September: Karah Hui (USA), Max Huang (Brazil), Archie Powell(Great Britain), and Buddy Hammon (USA)
48 total teams competing (13 teams in Expert, 14 teams in Contender, 7 teams in Women’s, and 15 teams in Co-Ed on Sunday)
2nd Women's division of 2022 CASR Main Series
Top 2 teams of the Contender Division will qualify for the Expert division
Will anyone take down Trevor Barbosa/Matt Ortlip?
Top Players
(Competing in Expert/Womens/Coed)
Mens
CA #4 Trevor Barbosa (Expert/Coed)
CA #5 Matt Ortlip (Expert)
CA #7 Ryan Oswalt (Expert/Coed)
CA #9 Jacob Martinez (Expert/Coed)
CA #10 Allan Iwamoto (Expert)
CA #11 Jacob Payer (Expert/Coed)
CA #12 Josh Fragiacomo (Expert)
CA #14 Drew Cummins (Expert)
CA #15 Dean Wasil (Expert/Coed)
Womens
CA #1 Karah Hui (Expert/Coed)
CA #2 Kayla Wu (Coed)
CA #5 Mey Helm (Womens/Coed)
CA #6 Perrin York (Womens/Coed)
CA #7 Ashley Ortlip (Womens)
CA #8 Malia Sato (Womens/Coed)
CA #11 Sebastiani Kim (Womens/Coed)
CA #12 Stacey Grimes (Womens)
CA #14 Kayla Ngai (Coed)
CA #15 Christine Chang (Womens/Coed)
CO #2 Joelle Nguyen (Coed)
PREVIEW
5.0-5.5 Expert Division
Big things are happening in the Expert division! California power ranked #4 Trevor Barbosa from Shifty, who is also ranked 19th in the Open Division for STS will be joining forces with Matt Ortlip, who is California power ranked #5 and from Fibonacci Roundnet in the open division. This team will have a deep arsenal of serves, and will be getting touches on most anything you try to put away. We expect them to be in the finals and win the whole thing. Thomas Nishimoto agrees and states, “Trevor and Matt will not drop a game and none of their games will go to extras. Clear cut favorite IMO”. Matt has other thoughts “Whichever team plays the cleanest will come away with 1st”. Trevor and Matt will be taking the 1 seed in the division with 1925 Points. Trailing behind them with 1300 points are California Elite player Nate Schrag and GCU/Cali player Ryan McCarger. They are here to show everyone that after their dominance in norcal, that they can hang with all the socal locals. “Ryan and I are extremely excited to be competing this weekend not only for the CASR points but to help us become as solidified as some California Spikeball household names.” This team is fighting 2 other teams for that finals spot, and they “are most excited for Texas Sucks (Andrew Kosche and Dean Wasil) because of a long running bet between Andrew and Ryan that if Ryan beats Andrew in a series, Andrew owes Ryan $100 and I know this is the tournament to do it in. Watchout for the Electro monkey's baby.” Clearly this will be an exciting match to watch and one for the ages. Another team in the running is CA #9 Jacob Martinez a California OG and comeup player Ethan Zehr. With Ethan firing serves left and right and maybe in reverse and the added goon strength of the #1 Women’s roundnet player Jacob Martinez, this team may find themselves in 1st place. Ethan says “he is excited to play Trevor and Matt cause they are cool guys and I need to learn serve receive better.” Another team looking to making the podium CA ranked#7 Ryan Oswalt and CA Ranked #12 Josh fragiacomo may have an interesting run if Josh's body can keep up.
2.0-4.5 Women’s Division
California Women's Roundnet has always had a strong 4, but nowadays we see a lot more women players growing their skills and competing at the top level. We are always excited to see a women's division in California because we always know it's going to be a fight. The front runners include CA power ranked #6 Perrin York from Spice Rack and CA power ranked #7 Ashley Ortlip. These two women have shown they can play against the top women's players, but even though they find themselves at #1 doesn’t mean the runners up can’t pull off a win. Ashley says she’s “really excited to play against Seb and Mey, I know they both play really well and it will be a tough mashup.” Seb and Mey are definitely the veteran team and may have the experience to pull off the win. Seb competed in our last women's division in San Diego and played with Perrin York but now she’s her top competitor and she knows it. “in womens I’m excited to play Perrin and Ashley. I think our games against them will be extremely fun and competitive”. Perrin is also excited about their match up and says “I'm always nervous playing my season partner, she has a lot of strong attributes about her game, but the key to winning women’s is to minimize mistakes and focus on getting the ball in the net.” We will see if one of these teams can take home the win. Let’s not forget about Trojan alumni Malia Sato and Christine Chang from $$KA-CHING$$. These two women are new to the roundnet scene but have developed their skills to compete with these top women's players and could very well sneak their way into the finals. These Trojan alumni are “excited to play with each other and always love competing in a women's division, we want a lot of rallies and to have fun. Dark horse Stacey Grimes, who finished 4th in our women's division in her hometown San Diego and Tung Lin from UCLA are also looking to have a good performance this tourney.
2.0-5.0 Coed Division(Sunday 8/28)
Coed is always a great time full of rallies and great competition, but it's also a brawl. Most of the time there isn’t an obvious 1st place pick. For this tourney, we can break it down into 6 top teams. There are two teams in particular that have a high chance of making it into the finals. Trevor Barbosa and Joelle Nguyen will be a difficult team to take down with Nguyen having two great Coed finishes at the STS OC and STS Utah Challengers and Trevor who can hold his own against the top of California. Coming up on their shoulders is Karah Hui from Kickstart who is one of four women's players competing in the Coed Championship on ESPN and Ethan Zehr who has been building experience against the top California players, hopefully that will be enough against the powerhouse of Barbosa and Nguyen.
These next 2 teams are definitely going to be making the most jokes and best plays of the day but will it be enough to get them into the finals. CA power ranked #11 Jacob Payer from Psych Roundnet is teaming up with CA #6 Perrin York from Spice Rack. This team could easily find themselves in the semis. The team that will be getting in your mental zone all day with their crazy antics and deceivingly gnarly serves is CA power ranked #9 Jacob Martinez and CA power ranked #11 Sebastiani Kim. Kim says that her “favorite part about coed is seeing all the fun mashups with a wide range in skill level.”
The bottom 2 teams that have the potential to make the top 4 are all fairly new players besides one OG. OG player Schon Siguenza has been raiding the STS scene and is growing in his skills as a serveballer. He is teaming up with CA power rank #14 Kayla Ngai from $$KA-CHING$$. This team will be making defensive plays all day and will have a sick highlight video. The next team that will come off firing is Cal Poly's Luke Pennington and CA power ranked #15 Christine Chang from $$KA-CHING$$. This team will have a collective of aces and rallies. Maybe if they play their cards right they can find themselves in the top 4.
With an interesting last minute sign up from Ryan Oswalt and CA ranked #2 Kayla wu they will make this division a lot more interesting and definitely a more competitive division.
Pools
Expert Division
Pool A
Just Above Average (Trevor Barbosa/Matt Ortlip - 1925pts)
Dialed (Josh Cain/Luke Pennington - 900pts)
Sub Par(Jacob Payer/Brandon Brown - 750pts)
Texas Sucks (Andrew Kosche/Dean Wasil - 625pts)
I've never seen drew lose (Drew Cummins/Thomas Nishimoto - 475pts)
Pugg’r Tugger (Warner Curtis/Tucker Judkins - 375pts)
Winney/Selby (Jack Selby/Anthony Winney - 0pts)
Pool B
Electro Monkies (Ryan McCarger/Nate Shrag - 1300pts)
Coneheads (Ethan Zehr/Jacob Martinez - 1175pts)
The Mio Brothers (Allen Iwamoto/John Choi - 725pts)
Oswalt/Frag(Ryan Oswalt/Josh Fragiacomo - 700pts)
DQ’d (Dylan Medveal/Quinn Hufler - 475pts)
Smokin Hooklah (Karah Hui/Schon Siguenza - 450pts)
Women's Division
Pool A
Porklip (Ashley Ortlip/Perrin York - 550pts)
BLASH (Mey Helm/Sebastiani Kim - 475pts)
Dont forget your trojan (Christine Chang/Malia Sato - 400pts)
Tung/Stacey(Stacey Grimes/Tung Lin - 225pts)
Paige/Sheba(Paige Kosche/Sheba Naderzad - 0pts)
Spiker? I Hardly Know Her.(Sherry Zhang/Josie Redberg - 0pts)
Getting Rec’d(Karissa Baucom/Tracy Johnson - 0pts)
Contender Division
Pool A
Johnson/Kaylor (Noah Johnson/Joseph Kaylor)
Tarps Off (Angel Hernandez/Peter Assadourian)
Socs n Crocs (Andrew Ursua/Raymond Vargas)
Dos Pueblos (Noah Severson/Micah Allin)
Playaz Circle (Daniel Stein/Michael Soliz)
Ground Beef (Jerrod Sousa/Alfred Nunes)
Boyd/Yates (Christopher Boyd/Kenny Yates)
Pool B
Dive Hard(er) (Austin Gauerke/Cole Sanchez)
Uncooked (Max Huang/Rahat Ullah)
Gopher Transplants (Jackson Winter/Kevin Daniel)
Bad Pockets (Ashwin Yedavalli/Brandon Peczenij)
CHICKHEN LEGGS (Dara Akhavein/Joseph Lee)
List Boys (Phoenix List/Spencer List)
Coed Division
Group A
Lima(Joelle Nguyen/Trevor Barbosa)
Gumps(tucker judkins/Malia Sato)
PANG!(Luke Pennington/Christine Chang)
50/50 Chance we Hate Eachother(Sherry Zhang/Brandon Brown)
Parkside Darkside(Charlie Huang/Abigail Cham)
Group B
Yip Yip(Karah Hui/Ethan Zehr)
Defenthive Kimarsthree(Sebastiani Kim/Jacob Martinez)
Schon-Ngai-Yuh Twain(Schon Siguenza/Kayla Ngai)
Deba(Sheba Naderzad/Dean Wasil)
Rim Job(Josh Hessel/Naomi Lopez)
Group C
Dropping Apricots(Ryan Oswalt/Kayla Wu)
FOR FREMONT!(Perrin York/Jacob Payer)
O mey, oolala!(Mey Helm/Rahat Ullah)
Cory and Kelsey(Andrew Kosche/Paige Kosche)
Steric Hinderance(JOEL GLASMAN/DELANEY CHEFFER)
CA States Team Points Race
Mens Leader Board(20)
Total Expert Points/1/2 Coed Points/Top Cali Club Finish
Trevor Barbosa 1250
Matt Ortlip 825
Josh Fragiacomo 812.5
Ryan Mccargar 750
Jacob Martinez 700
Jason Rhoads 675
Josh Cain 550
Nathaniel Schrag 550
Ethan Zehr 525
John Choi 512.5
Dean Wasil 450
Jacob Payer 425
Schon Siguenza 425
Allen Iwamoto 400
Luke Pennington 400
Ryder Rivadeneyra 375
Troy Mauk 375
Brandon Brown 325
Thomas Nishimoto 275
Archie Powell 250
Women's Leader Board
Total Women's Points/1/2 Coed Points/1/2 Expert Points/Top Cali Club finish
Mey Helm 537.5
Alex Buckman 452.5
Ashley Ortlip 450
Elle Lowe 375
Malia Sato 300
Jordan Engdahl 300
Karah Hui 237.5
Jenna DiMaggio 225
Stacey Grimes 225
Kayla Wu 200
Perrin York 150
Kayla Ngai 150
Christine Chang 150
Seb Kim 100
McKenna Sherman 100
Vanessa Silvas 100
Melissa Main 100
Lindsey Preovolos 100
Kalin Morgan 62.5
California State Team Info
Mens Info
Must Attend 2 CASR Events
Must Play in State v State Tournament in 2023
Top 8 Players by Points will have auto Spots
Last 2 will be picked by CASR
Mens Benefits
California State Team Jersey
50% off CASR Main Series Events(100% off for a team)
½ off CASR 20223 Merchandise
Individual Sponsor Benefits
Qualify for 6.0 Elite division
Womens Info
Must Attend 2 CASR Events
Top 4 Players by Points will have auto spots
Last 2 will be picked by CASR
Womens Benefits
California State Team Jersey
50% off CASR Main Series Events(100% off for a team)
Individual Sponsor Benefits
½ off CASR 2023 Merchandise
Qualify for 6.0 Elite division
Predictions
Contender
Johnson/Kaylor (Noah Johnson/Joseph Kaylor)
Dive Hard(er) (Austin Gauerke/Cole Sanchez)
Rahat/Max (Max Huang/Rahat Ullah)
Tarps Off (Angel Hernandez/Peter Assadourian)
Honorable Mentions: Palmdale Spikers(Ashwin Yedavalli/Brandon Peczenij),Dos Pueblos(Noah Severson/Micah Allin),Gopher Transplants(Jackson Winter/Kevin Daniel)
Women’s
Porklip (Ashley Ortlip/Perrin York)
BLASH (Mey Helm/Sebastiani Kim)
Don't forget your trojan (Christine Chang/Malia Sato)
Tung/Stacey (Stacey Grimes/Tung Lin)
Honorable Mentions: Paige/Sheba(Paige Kosche/Sheba Naderzad), Getting Rec’d(Karissa Baucom/Tracy Johnson)
Coed
Lima (Joelle Nguyen/Trevor Barbosa)
Yip Yip (Ethan Zehr/Karah Hui)
Dropping Apricots(Ryan Oswalt/Kayla Wu)
For Freemont (Perrin York/Jacob Payer)
Honorable Mentions: Defenthive Kimarsthree (Jacob Martinez/Sebastiani Kim)Chang/Pennington(Luke Pennington/Christine Chang), Schon-Ngai-yuh Twain(Kayla Ngai/Schon Siguenza)
Expert
Just Above Average(Trevor Barbosa/Matt Ortlip)
Coneheads (Ethan Zehr/Jacob Martinez)
Electro Monkies (Ryan McCarger/Nate Shrag)
Texas Sucks (Andrew Kosche/Dean Wasil)
Honorable Mentions: I've never seen drew lose (Drew Cummins/Thomas Nishimoto), Cummins/Ortlip (Jacob Payer/Brandon Brown), Oswalt/Frag(Ryan Oswalt/Josh Fragiacomo), The Mio Brothers(Allen Iwamoto/John Choi)
PRIZES
Prize Pot $1200
5.5 Expert (Total $450)
1st - Trophy/$250
2nd - Trophy/$150
3rd - Trophy/$50
2.0-5.0 Coed (Total $450)
1st - Trophy/$250
2nd - Trophy/$150
3rd - Trophy/$50
2.0-4.5 Women’s (Total $300)
1st - Trophy/$150
2nd - Trophy/$100
3rd - Trophy/$50
3.0-4.5 Contender
1st -Qualify for Expert Division/2x Medals/Tomahawk Shades
2nd - Qualify for Expert Division/2x Medals/Spikeball Shirts
3rd -2x Medals/Spikeball Socks
This preview was written by Josh Fragiacomo.