Olympic gold medalist Karch Kiraly and partner...

Olympic gold medalist Karch Kiraly and partner Brent Frohoff prevented Mike Dodd and Tim Hovland from winning beach volleyball’s triple crown by beating them, 11-5, in the final of a $100,000 tournament at San Diego.

Dodd and Hovland, both from Manhattan Beach, had won the top prize in the first two tournaments--in Clearwater, Fla., and Boulder, Colo. Each victory earned them $50,000.

A crowd of nearly 20,000 watched Dodd and Hovland take a 4-2 lead in the championship match. But Kiraly--who won gold medals with the U.S. team at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics--and Frohoff scored the next seven points before Dodd and Hovland got their fifth and final point.