Cook-Tiegs 3rd in gold, Spieler-Taylor 2nd in silver

It was the fourth time in five tournaments—including the second time in a USAV event this year—that Katie Spieler-Nikki Taylor reached a tournament final. For the fourth time this year, they fell to top-seeded Alexa Strange and Kelly Claes (USC) . Sunday it was 21-13, 14-21, 15-13.

in the Silver Bracket 12th-seeded Ginger Long-Ali Long0 won a pair of matches to earn a place in the semifinals, where they were eventually knocked off by Strange and Claes in straight sets.

UH’s top pair of Karissa Cook-Brittany Tiegs, the only SandBows in the gold bracket, were seeded third.  They won their quarterfinal matchup over Bakersfield’s Molly O’Hagan and Debora Araujo before losing to Pepperdine’s Kelley Larsen and Kellie Woolevar in three sets, 21-12, 13-21, 15-10.

London Chow-Tayler Higgers and Sarah Mendoza-Mikayla Tucker were in the bronze and eliminated in the first round.

UH wraps up the  regular season at the Big West Challenge in Huntington Beach, this Friday-Saturday

Sunday’s results

gold bracket
1 Burnham/Hughes (USC) d 8 Milton/Hess (SCU), 21-10, 21-7
4 Metter/Keil (LMU) d 5 Tan/Ngauamo (UCLA), 21-13, 21-15
3 Cook/Tiegs (Hawaii) d 6 O’Hagan/Araujo (Bakersfield), 21-12, 21-11
2 Larsen/Woolever (Pepperdine) d 7 Witt/Witt (Arizona), 21-9, 21-12
Gold semifinals
1 Burnham/Hughes (USC) d 4 Metter/Keil (LMU), 15-21, 21-9, 15-13
2 Larsen/Woolever (Pepperdine) d 3 Cook/Tiegs (Hawaii), 21-12, 13-21, 15-10
Gold final
1 Burnham/Hughes (USC) d 2 Larsen/Woolever (Pepperdine), 21-15, 21-18

Silver bracket
1 Strange/Claes (USC) d 16 Seiber/Rhoades (Arizona), 21-10, 21-18
9 Racich/Knudsen (Pepperdine) d 8 Rottman/Clayton (SCU), 21-16, 23-21
12 Long/Longo (Hawaii) d 5 Smith/Nightingale (UCLA), 21-16, 21-18
4 Luft/Bush (LMU) d 13 Bowen/Perrins (Bakersfield), 21-16, 21-19
3 Spieler/Taylor (Hawaii) d 14 Lowe/Formico (UCLA), 21-5, 21-14
11 Suaava/Akana (LMU) d 6 Bartch/Guitare (Bakersfield), 21-14, 21-16
10 Hirschmann/Siljovic (USC) d 7 Kingdom/Lewis (Arizona), 21-19, 21-18
2 Strehlow/Dykstra (Pepperdine) d 15 Cresto/Dayton (SCU), 21-10, 21-6
Silver quarterfinals
1 Strange/Claes (USC) d 9 Racich/Knudsen (Pepperdine), 21-14, 21-13
12 Long/Longo (Hawaii) d 4 Luft/Bush (LMU), 21-16, 21-19
3 Spieler/Taylor (Hawaii) d 11 Suaava/Akana (LMU), 21-20, 21-12
2 Strehlow/Dykstra (Pepperdine) d 10 Hirschmann/Siljovic (USC), 21-19, 21-13
Silver semifinals
3 Spieler/Taylor (Hawaii) d 2 Strehlow/Dykstra (Pepperdine), 21-14, 21-15
1 Strange/Claes (USC) d 12 Long/Longo (Hawaii), 21-13, 21-19
Silver final
1 Strange/Claes (USC) d 3 Spieler/Taylor (Hawaii), 21-13, 14-21, 15-13

in bronze,UH pairs out in first round

5 Drolson/Inouye (UCLA) d 12 Mendoza/Tucker (Hawaii), 21-15, 21-14
14 Dykstra/Frager (UCLA) d 3 Chow/Higgins (Hawaii), 21-17, 21-18