NEWPORT BEACH — Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher completed the three-peat of Southern California beach volleyball tournaments with a win in the women’s championship match at the Elite 16 on Saturday afternoon in Newport Beach.

Nuss and Brasher also won the Huntington Beach Open and Manhattan Beach Open this year, cementing their status as the No. 1 women’s team in the U.S.

This week demonstrated that the competition among American women’s teams is rapidly growing, however.

Nuss and Brasher, who played beach and indoor volleyball at LSU, had to win a difficult three-set match against the American duo of Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft in the semifinals earlier Saturday, and then took on the U.S. team of Julia Donlin and Lexy Denaburg in the finals, winning 21-15, 21-14.

After representing

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