Hagen Smith inspired by his father during Avp Playing Intuit Dome

The former “king of the beach” kept his hidden crown on Saturday evening.

Dressed in jeans and an ordinary white shirt, Sinjin Smith hovered on the touch of sand.

When Hagen Smith – The son and spitting the image of Sinjin – sailed too far, Sinjin increased his neck back and tightened his jaws.

“On the ground, he tells me to serve short and I never listen to,” said Hagen.

And when Hagen – an elder from the UCLA like his father – led to a peak that was cutting in the intact sand, Sinjin’s arm sharp the air while a smile stretched on his face and his applause resounded.

“I didn’t disguise anything,” said Sinjin.

Anonymity did not have a chance while Sinjin looked at Hagen and Logan Webber locked in a three -time set three times against the passion of Palm Beach which spilled the previous regulations twice.

But while Sinjin mounted each rally, Hagen and Webber won a narrow victory, spending 13-15, 18-16 and 18-16. The male duo of Los Angeles remains undefeated for five weeks of AVP play, helping to compensate for the first defeat of the Lunk female duo of the year earlier on Saturday. Their combined records will determine if they will win the crown of the regular season of the AVP League.

Two dozen years were removed from his last outing on the sand, Sinjin has cut his career on the chaos of tight calls. But Friday, with his son who was exchanging in a battle that felt like he had refused to end, Sinjin dodged the heart attacks.

As the crowd was leaned over, Sinjin leaned back.

“It’s trying to watch it – you couldn’t get a better game for fans, but I hated that,” said Sinjin. “I want to win in two and go home.”

While Sinjin may have grimamped through each additional rally, Hagen has soaked everything – stable under pressure. He “perhaps does his best to be up to the task” of his father, but to hear Sinjin saying, Hagen had already exceeded the myth.

Sinjin Smith participated in the AVP Santa Barbara Open in 2001.

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“It’s an incredible resource for me. I’m going to ask him as, midnight, “hey, can you go out in the morning and coach me? He is there, ”said Hagen about Sinjin. “I shaped my game after him, from start to finish. If I can be like something like him as a player, I am honored. ”

Sinjin marveled from Hagen with the fear of a fan.

“He is his own person. He plays for himself, trust me,” said Sinjin. “He may want to prove something to me, I don’t know, but he did so much more than what I expected. He’s so fun to look at – the fact that he is my son, it’s just icing on the cake.”

Sinjin, the UCLA and the temple of renowned international volleyball, hit his temple twice when asked where he and his son aligned themselves on the sand. The resemblance, he said, lives in the mind-because Hagen’s style has taken its own form, forged far from the shadow of his father.

“He jumps and he is powerful and he moves in the sand,” said Sinjin. “I did everything well, which was my strength, but he really excels – for one, attacking the ball, he strikes the ball stronger and more explosively when he attacks than ever.”

As long as Hagen can remember, Pauley Pavilion was the lighthouse in the distance – the promised land of his childhood dreams. And when he finally entered the arena, his eyes fixed on a familiar face.

There was Sinjin, presented on the walls around the Maison des Bruins.

“To see this, it’s like” Ah, it’s at home for me. I have a dad who helped me, I have daddy surveillance.

Sinjin played under Al Scadés – the architect of the UCLA volleyball dynasty and the most winning coach in the history of male volleyball in the NCAA. Under scients and its 19 national titles, victory was the annual expectation.

And under the supervision of rugs, Sinjin reserved his career with National Glory and flooded his cabinets of individual distinctions – two American recognitions, a distinction of the most remarkable players in the 1979 national championship and a faithful of the undefeated historic team of 1979.

Hagen Smith, on the left, left, and Logan Webber, on the right, celebrate with the Launch Terese Cannon after Smith and Webber beat Phil Dalhausser and Trevor Crabb of the AVP League of Palm Beach Passion during the Inglewood intuit game.

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“”[Scates] was the best coach of all time in the United States, “said Sinjin.” Al had a talent for choosing players who had more than a simple physical game. They also had a mental game. … There are so many that Al trained and continued to be the best of the best on the beach or inside. »»

Decades later, Hagen was driven by the protégé des dadades John Speraw.

After having made a boost of the names of former teammates and partners on the sand side, Sinjin stopped, apparently struck by a model that he could not ignore: “God”, he said, “there are a lot of UCLA legends.”

Two of them share the same last name.

“”[Sinjin] I tried to get into tennis, “said Hagen,” and I said to myself: “Dad, I just want to play volleyball. I just want to be like you. “”

Other AVP results

In another AVP action on Saturday, Melissa Humana-Paredes de Palm Beach Passion and Brandie Wilkerson put Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft from Launch, their first defeat, winning 12-15, 15-6, 15-10.

Devon Newberry and Geena Urango from San Diego Smash beat Kelly Cheng by Miami Mayhem and Molly Shaw 15-10, 15-11.

And Chase Budinger and Miles Evans of San Diego Smash beat Chaim Schalk of Miami Mayhem and James Shaw 11-15, 15-11, 15-13.