So far, the new team of Sara Hughes and Lauren Fendrick is working out pretty well.
They beat fellow Americans Kelly Reeves and Terese Cannon 21-13, 21-16 on Sunday to win the two-star FIVB Cambodia gold medal in Siem Reap. Hughes and Fendrick won $4,000 and 400 points. Reeves and Cannon take home $3,000 and 360 points.
In the bronze-medal match, Japan’s Yurika Sakaguchi and Chiyo Suzuki swept Denmark’s Cecilie Køllner Olsen and Sofia Nørager Bisgaard 21-18. 21-18.