Gene Selznick’s 17s girls club volleyball teams both won their divisions at the Las Vegas Invitational tournament last weekend. The first team, led by local players Kelly Irvin, Kendall Bird, Mattison Quayle and Audrey Eichler, finished first out of 168 teams in the U-17 elite division by winning all 10 of its matches. Selznick’s squad defeated San Diego Encinitas, 24-26, 25-21, 15-10, in the finals after beating Jamba of Hawaii in three games in the semifinals. Irvin, the team captain and setter, attends Marymount High along with Bird and Quayle. Eichler plays at Harvard-Westlake High in North Hollywood. Rounding out the squad were Ashley Lee of Whittier, Cathy Quilico and Jessie Yeager of Westlake, Deanna Elias and Tori Boden of Thousand Oaks and Sydney Bratovich of Las Vegas. Gene’s Team will play a mandatory 18-and-under tournament this Sunday at the Anaheim Stadium Club in preparation for Junior Olympic Qualifying March 17-19 in Denver, Colorado. Selznick’s 17s ‘B” team competed in the 18s division in Las Vegas, which consisted of 264 teams, and won the Silver Division. Led by Palisadians Christine Waters (Harvard-Westlake), Tori Storosh (New Roads) and Molly Peterson (Oak Park), the team also consisted of Caitlin Williams, Joanna Kobalski and Megan Berry of Santa Monica High, Amanda Gottesman of New Roads, Bianca Crain and Jessi Brown of Crossroads and Ali Habeeb of Notre Dame Academy.
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