PARIS, France, August 2, 2024.- Samuel Schachter and Daniel Dearing of Canada earned a 2-0 (21-16, 21-15) shutout of 17th-seeded Austria’s Julian Horl and Alexander Horst on Friday to stay alive in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Schachter & Dearing finished Pool E in third place on a 1-2 win-loss record, while the winless Austrians were eliminated from further contention.
Schachter was the best scorer of the match with 15 points. Dan added 10 points to the win on a match-high of 4 blocks, 5 kills and one ace.
On the other hand, Chase Budinger and Miles Evans of the United States dropped their final pool match to Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira of Spain 2-0 (21-18, 21-11) to finish third in Pool F.
With the win by Netherlands over France, Budinger and Evans avoided outright elimination.
With the format at the Paris Olympics, all the third-place finishers in pool play move on in some capacity. The top two third-place teams automatically advance to the Round of 16 as the 13 and 14 seed. The other four third-place finishers fall into the lucky loser category to determine who will fill out 15-16 seeds. Tiebreaker placement among third-place pool finishers is first determined by total match points, then set ratio if necessary, and then total point ratio if tiebreaking statistics are still necessary.
Both Schachter/Dearing and Budinger/Evans will have to wait until the conclusion of pool play on Saturday before their next match is officially determined.
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