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Team of Kirby, Rock Advance to Semifinals

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Top-seeded Karolyn Kirby and Angela Rock of San Diego continued to dominate the Women’s Professional Volleyball Assn. tour at the $40,000 Camp Pendleton Open Saturday.

Kirby and Rock, the leading money winners on the tour with $44,340 each, breezed into today’s winner’s bracket semifinals with a 15-12 quarterfinal victory over Gayle Stammer and Alison Johnson at Club del Beach in Camp Pendleton. Kirby and Rock will play Lori Biller and Patty Dodd in the semifinals.

Second-seeded Gail Castro of Cardiff and Lori Kotas of Carlsbad lost to seventh-seeded Kelly Van Winden and Charlotte Mitchel, 15-13, in the quarterfinals. Van Winden and Mitchel will play third-seeded Elaine Roque and Janice Opalinski-Harrer of San Juan Capistrano in the other winners’ bracket semifinal.

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Rock and Kirby, who have won eight of the first 11 tournaments this year, are closing in on the season record of 11 victories set by Jackie Silva and Dodd in 1989. The are six tournaments scheduled after the Camp Pendleton event.

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