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June 27, 2009
White-Fontaine finish 3rd at U19 FIVB World Championship Selection Tournament
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Marc White and Stephane Fontaine (New Maryland, NB) traveled to Toronto to vie for a berth at the FIVB World U19 Championships in Turkey. The Selection tournament, run by Volleyball Canada's Beach Development Committee including National Beach Team Coach Lennard Krapp runs June 27-28 at Beach Blast.

On Day 1 of Pool Play, White-Fontaine lost to 16U VC 2008 Beach National Champions Del Bianco-Chow (BC) 2-0 (21-16, 21-17). In their second match of the day they pushed their Ontario counterparts Mackay-Stevenson to a third set, eventually falling to the duo 15-10. In their third match, they bounced back against another Ontario team, Yassaie-Khuskivadze, winning in straight sets, 2-0 (21-10, 21-12).

On Sunday, White-Fontaine battled hard and eked out a quarter-final victory against the Ontario duo Leblanc-Sanders 2-0 (21-19, 21-19). This set-up their semi-final against top ranked team May-Sedgwick. May-Sedgwick came on strong in the first set to capture the early lead 21-15. White Fontaine returned to the second set determined, winning key points frustrating their opponents and were rewarded with a 21-19 set. In the third set, White-Fontaine pushed the whole set with 2 point leads, scoring a scramble point at 13-11. May-Sedgwick pushed back, recovering scoring 4 consecutive points to advance to the Final. May-Sedgwick eventually qualified for the FIVB Worlds in the final against Del Bianco-Chow (BC)

Coach Eric Moffatt noted that "Marc and Stephane continued to improve as the tourney came along. We impressed the other teams this weekend and were watched by VC BDC. This weekend shows that the guys still need continual high performance training to bring their level of play to the top of their game. We definitely left our semi-finals with our heads high after playing the best match of the entire selection tournament."

White-Fontaine will now look to take their experience to the Team NB International Francophonie Games Selection Tournament July 11th at Willie O'Ree Place in Fredericton

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