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- Updated: May 28, 2016
Moscow, Russia, May 28, 2016 -Trailing 13-11 in the third and deciding set to defending Moscow Grand Slam champions Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera of Spain, Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson of the United States were on the brink of elimination and headed for their fourth-straight fifth-place finish on the FIVB World Tour.
“I was thinking: Jake, get a block down the line,” said Patterson after match as the second-seeded Americans rallied to score a 2-1 (21-17, 13-21, 16-14) quarter-final win in 47 minutes over 12th-seeded Gavira and Herrera, who captured their first-ever FIVB gold medal at last year’s stop in the Russian capital. “You got one and then go back to serve. Hit it as hard as you can and that’s what I did.”
As Patterson described, the Americans scored five of the last six points in the match to secure the win and advance to their first international “final four” together since last August when the duo dropped the gold medal match to reigning FIVB world champions Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt.
“I think our serving was the difference,” said the 40-year old Gibb as his team reach a FIVB World Tour semi-final for the eighth-time in 38 international starts together. “Pablo and Adrian were side-out masters that match. We could not stop them. So we had to …
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