The South Bay produced five gold medalists at the 18th AAU Beach Volleyball National Championships held in Hermosa Beach last weekend, although top seeds and last year’s Players of the Year Christopher Orenic and Tiffany Morales were not among them.
It looked like family night at the Manhattan Beach Country Club – tables of toddlers filled the dining room. Soon-to-be Mayor Nick Tell sat at a table with a soda, greeting passersby as he waited for his own family to join him.