Thank you to everyone who came out to this year’s Phoenix Banquet! We appreciate everyone taking a bit of their time out of their busy schedules to attend this event and hope everyone had a good time! We’d also like to congratulate Jeffrey Chu and Naomi Mendoza for being the 2013 Phoenix MVPs! With that said, we’d like to leave everyone with a short video of this year’s Phoenix highlights!

Toronto Phoenix was in Washington DC this past weekend for the 69^th NACIVT.  Playing on Pennsylvania St. the first two days and then moving indoors on the third, we couldn’t have asked for better weather for a 9man tournament.

The men’s team came third in their pool after the first day of play, successfully qualifying for the gold re-pool on the second day.  After a short second day, they were knocked down to silver flight, just missing the round of 16.  In silver flight playoffs, the men were matched up against the Washington MVP Snapping Turtles.  After Toronto Phoenix took the first set, the Snapping Turtles geared up their serve receive and took a close second set.  With the momentum changed and the pressure on Phoenix to defend, they unfortunately fell short and lost the third set, eliminating them from the tournament.

The women’s team played a strong first day, only dropping a set to CYC Elite and coming 2^nd overall in their pool.  The second day proved to be more challenging and the girls were knocked down to silver flight after losing a close (12-15) challenge match to NY Vikings Kapow.  In silver flight, Toronto Phoenix played beat the NY Vikings Remix in the quarterfinals but decided to end their run early, defaulting the next match, because of content issues among the team.

Toronto Phoenix would like to thank the organizing committee for providing us with a great end-of-the-summer tournament.  We’d also like to thank everyone who made this a successful summer for the club!   We hope that everyone has a great indoor season and we look forward to the 70^th NACIVT in Las Vegas 2014!

Men’s

Pool Play
Phoenix A vs. Washington MVP Jin Long (18-21, 19-21)
Phoenix A vs. Philly CIA Red (21-17, 21-15)
Phoenix A vs. Boston Knights C (21-10, 21-19)
Phoenix A vs. Toronto Connex B (14-21, 19-21)

Gold Re-Pool
Phoenix A vs. San Francisco Rage (15-21, 21-14, 14-21)
Phoenix A vs. Toronto Ngun Lam Red (17-21, 14-21)
Phoenix A vs. Toronto Ngum Lam White (21-12, 21-18)

Silver Playoffs
Pre-Quarter – Phoenix A vs. Washington MVP Snapping Turtles (21-15, 20-22, 15-21)

Women’s

Pool Play
Phoenix A vs. Houston Cowgirls (25-18, 26-24)
Phoenix A vs. Toronto Warriors Ice (25-22, 25-17)
Phoenix A vs. NY Dynamic Impact (25-13, 25-18)
Phoenix A vs. Washington CYC Elite (25-17, 12-25)

Gold Re-Pool
Phoenix A vs. San Francisco W*E* SuPaGurtz (23-25, 25-19)
Phoenix A vs. NY Vikings Kapow (24-26, 25-23)
Phoenix A vs. Philly CIA (21-25, 25-11)

Gold Flight Challenge Match
Phoenix A vs. NY Vikings Kapow (12-15)

Silver Playoffs
Pre-Quarters – Phoenix A vs. Lady Sunsational Sunblockers (25-14, 25-15)
Quarterfinals – Phoenix A vs. NY Vikings Remix (19-25, 26-24, 15-12)

Thanks to everyone who attended Phoenix Cup yesterday!  We had 10 men’s teams and 12 women’s teams come out for the tournament at Rick Hansen S.S., in Mississauga.  It was our biggest Phoenix Cup to date and a great success!  Congratulations to Thunder Storm and Flying Tigers A for winning the women’s and men’s side, respectively.  We also want to thank all the teams that offered to put up nets for the tournament as well as everyone who pitched in for set-up and take-down.  Now we look forward to the NACIVT in Washington DC!

Full results of the tournament are available on the Phoenix Cup results page.

Men’s A

Pool Play
Phoenix A vs. Flying Tigers A (16-21, 15-21, 13-21)
Phoenix A vs. Zhen Qi Red (21-13, 21-13, 21-14)

Gold Playoffs
Quarterfinal – Phoenix A vs. Flying Tigers B (21-14, 21-13)
Semifinal – Phoenix A vs. Flying Tigers A (16-21, 13-21)

Women’s A

Pool Play
Phoenix A vs. KiNEXION (21-17, 21-13)
Phoenix A vs. Warriors Ice (21-12, 21-14)
Phoenix A vs. Flying Tigers A (21-17, 21-18)

Gold Playoffs
Phoenix A received a buy into the semifinal ranking 2^nd overall after pool play.
Semifinal – Phoenix A vs. Thunder Storm (13-21, 9-21)

Men’s Alumni

Pool Play
Phoenix Alumni vs. Sabres (13-21, 18-21)
Phoenix Alumni vs. Zhen Qi Blue (21-7, 21-17)
Phoenix Alumni vs. Flying Tigers B (20-21, 21-18)

Challenge Match
Phoenix Alumni vs. Flying Tigers X (21-20)

Gold Playoffs
Quarterfinal – Phoenix Alumni vs. Ngun Lam (17-21, 16-21)

The Toronto Phoenix Women’s A team spent the past weekend competing at TD’s Night It Up Concrete Classic.  They played a wonderful tournament and were undefeated going into the finals.  Unfortunately, they fell short at the end, taking Outtahand to a full 3-set match (19-25, 25-20, 12-15).  It was a very hot weekend, full of festivities at the Night It Up night market and we are very proud of all the girls that competed in the tournament!

Women’s A

Pool Play
Phoenix A vs. Kinexion (25-10, 23-25)
Phoenix A vs. Flying Tigers Black (25-15, 25-14)

Re-pool
Phoenix A vs. United (25-20, 25-22)
Phoenix A vs. Thunder (25-19, 25-16)

Gold Re-pool
Phoenix A vs. Outtahand (25-23, 23-25)
Phoenix A vs. Flying Tigers Black (25-19, 25-21)

Gold Playoffs
Semifinal – Phoenix A vs. Kinexion (25-13, 25-23)
Final – Phoenix A vs. Outtahand (19-25, 25-20, 12-15)

Our Toronto Phoenix Women’s A team will be playing this weekend at the  1st Annual Concrete Classic at TD’s Night It Up! If you’re in the area, please come watch and support the team when they play!

Location: TD’S Night It Up (Markham Civic Centre, northwest corner of  Highway 7 & Warden Ave).
Date: July 13th (12pm – 8pm)
July 14th (12pm – 5pm)

Good luck ladies!