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Whitmarsh, Swatik Win Volleyball Title

By MIKE BRESNAHAN
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Mike Whitmarsh teamed with David Swatik to defeat Jose Loiola and Emanuel Rego, 14-12, to win the Hermosa Beach Open Sunday.

The tournament wasn’t a standard-setter--Karch Kiraly was ousted earlier and failed in his bid to win his record 140th pro beach volleyball title--but it was entertaining nonetheless, particularly in the championship.

A kill by Loiola with no time left on the nine-minute game clock pulled his team to within 13-12, sending the match into overtime, where the first team to take a two-point lead would prevail.

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Whitmarsh, 37, who won the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics (Kiraly won the gold), came up with the winning block on Rego.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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