The Annual Boston University Volleyball Tournament was held this past weekend and once again more than 250 players left the tournament shaking their heads and another loss under their belts to the Big RIV Machine. This year it was a RIV Alumni Team that turned back the hands of time and swept through the tournament for yet another RIV Tourney win. Rivier class of '06 teammates Javier Laureano, Jason Conetta, and Kurt Monaco joined up with Jeff Costa ('05) and class of '10 members Zach Hansen, Matt Ferreira, and Kyle O'Neill to run rough house over such schools as BC, UNH, BU, UConn, URI, Yale, Syracuse, Columbia, Georgetown, and Emmanuel. The old timers went 12-2 on the 2 day tourney and added to the theory that the BU Invitational should be renamed as the RIV Invitational.
Also doing well in the tournament was another RIV Alum team (Lost boys) with Greg Stanton ('06), Nhut Chau ('06), Justin Andreozzi ('07), and Scottie Wright ('09) as the core members. The group finished up 5th in the tourney and was knocked out by the RIV Alumni Squad mentioned above.
The current RIV team held their own as well picking up a Silver Medal finish going 12-1 in the tournament and their only loss was to the RIV Alum Lost Boys team.
In a strange twist to the tourney, some may say a RIV conspiracy to hold out having an all RIV Championship match, the current RIV squad had to square off in the Gold play-in match to the RIV Alum Lost Boys team and then the winner of that match would face the Rivier Alumni team in the quarter-finals of the Gold Bracket. No doubt any of those 2 matches should have been the Championship match.
Congrats to all 31 RIV players involved in the tourney!!!
