ON THE BEACH / MIKE REILLEY : Sun, Sand, Volleyball and All the Bandages They Will Ever Need

Their main sponsor on the pro beach volleyball tour is a hospital. Their husbands had to coax them into playing again.

But Cammy Ciarelli and Diane Pestolesi of Huntington Beach are glad they’re giving the Women’s Professional Volleyball Assn. tour a try.

Especially after they pulled off a big upset last weekend at the Austin (Tex.) Open.

Playing in only their second tournament, unseeded Ciarelli and Pestolesi beat second-seeded Elaine Roque of Malibu and Nina Matthies of Oxnard, 18-16, in the first round of the 40-team tournament. Ciarelli and Pestolesi finished ninth.

“We got there (Saturday) at 8 a.m. and had to play a Texas team in the qualifying round,” Ciarelli said. “We didn’t have enough points to be seeded, so we played our way in.”

Both players are relative newcomers to the pro beach game.

Pestolesi played briefly on the beach after an indoor career at the University of Hawaii and later with New York of the Major League Volleyball tour. Ciarelli played at Laguna Beach High School and UCLA and spent two years in Italy’s pro leagues.

But both gave up the sport to raise families. Each has two young children.

Cammy’s husband, Rocky Ciarelli, coaches the Huntington Beach High School boys’ team, top-ranked in Orange County. Tom Pestolesi, Diane’s husband, coaches Estancia’s boys and girls.

“Our husbands are close friends and they kept telling us we should play,” Cammy said. “And all we would say was, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. We’re busy raising our kids.’

“But we’d watch the pro tournaments and we saw teams finishing second, third and fourth, and they were people we played against and beat in college.

“I mean, we were out busting our butts--Di’s a nurse and I was an assistant (women’s volleyball) coach at UCI--and we see these beach players bringing home $35,000 a year. So we said, ‘Let’s go for it.’ ”

The team persuaded Hoag Memorial Hospital, where Diane Pestolesi works, to pay their travel costs.

“No hospital has ever done anything like this before,” Ciarelli said. “They’ve been a big help to us.”

Both players went on a weight-training program under the watchful eye of Tony Ciarelli, Cammy’s brother-in-law.

They sharpened their volleyball skills by working with Danny Glenn, boys and girls coach at Newport Harbor High School.

“Tony’s weight-training program is unbelievable,” Cammy said. “We never lifted in college. Now he has us doing the bench, squat lifts, the clean-and-jerk, everything.”

“And Danny has been a big help. He’s taught us the beach game, how to fake-block, call plays and jump serve.”

The next stop on the tour is Saturday and Sunday at Daytona, Fla.

Add volleyball: The WPVA is expected next week to announce a new site for the Huntington Beach Open tournament, which was banned by the City Council last month.

The tournament was originally scheduled for June 29-30 at the Huntington Beach Pier, its location for the past four summers. Sources said officials from Sunset Beach and Camp Pendleton are vying for the new site.

The tournament, sponsored by Coors Light beer, has to be moved because the City Council voted in late March to ban all advertising of alcoholic beverages on city beaches and at all city-sponsored events.

Sinjin and Randy: Is anybody going to beat this guys? Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won their sixth consecutive tournament Sunday, beating Tim Hovland and Kent Steffes in the finals of the Phoenix Open.

The tour record for consecutive tournament victories is 13, set by Jim Menges and Greg Lee in 1975-76, according Volleyball Monthly magazine.

The Phoenix victory was the 100th of Stoklos’ career and his 99th with Smith as a partner. They have each won $42,825 this season.

The next stop on the tour is this weekend at Ocean Beach in San Diego.

Attention, Grommets: You really dug the documentary “Surfers--The Movie” last summer, right? You get a sequel this spring--”Surfers Take-Two.”

The sequel was released in early April and will be shown during limited engagements in San Clemente, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo and Costa Mesa. Among the featured surfers are Dino Andino and Matt Archbold, both of San Clemente.

The filmmakers do their best to dispel the surfer stereotypes, touching on environmental issues and the evolution of the sport.

But they still manage to have some fun.

The film is narrated by surfers such as world-champion Tom Curren of Santa Barbara and Christian Fletcher of San Clemente.

And groupies take note: Teen phenom Kelly Slater of Cocoa Beach, Fla., gives his analysis of what it takes to be a surfer’s girlfriend.

The movie’s set to some pretty decent tunes, too. More than $100,000 of the film’s $750,000 budget was used to secure music rights from U2, Jimi Hendrix, Public Image, Bob Marley and Neil Young.

There’s not one Jan and Dean or Beach Boys song in the movie.

Add surf flick: Former world champion Martin Potter will appear at several screenings of “Surfers Take-Two.” He’ll appear April 22 at the Edwards South Coast in Laguna Beach, April 23 at the Edwards Viejo Twin in Mission Viejo, and April 26 at the Edwards Mesa in Newport Beach. Autograph sessions start at 8:30 each night.

Dino and Archie: Andino and Archbold will hit the big screen again this summer in the movie “Point Break.” The San Clemente duo worked last summer as stunt doubles for Patrick (“Ghost”) Swayze, Gary (“The Buddy Holly Story”) Busey and Keanu (“Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”) Reeves.

Andino also landed a small speaking role, playing a surfing gang leader named “Psycho-stick.”

The movie, originally titled “Riders on the Storm,” will be released in July. The film was renamed because another movie already had the title, according to publicists at 20th Century Fox.

Archbold, who overcame drug and alcohol problems early last season to win two PSAA contests, is off to a strong start this year.

Archbold moved into first place in the PSAA standings by holding off local favorites Peter Mel and Nate Acker two weeks ago, winning the $35,000 Body Glove Pro at Santa Cruz.

Archbold, who was seeded fifth, won four consecutive heats before edging Mel and Acker in the final. Archbold took home $5,700.

The next stop on the PSAA tour will be May 8-12 at Bolsa Chica State Beach.

Surfing scribe: One of the best surfing books I’ve read lately is “The North Shore Chronicles” by Bruce Jenkins of Malibu.

Jenkins, a baseball writer and columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle, mixes personal accounts of two decades of surfing in Hawaii with profiles of several North Shore legends. There are chapters devoted to Darrick Doerner, Ken Bradshaw and bodyboarder Mike Stewart. The book, which Jenkins says has sold well in Hawaii, has just reached stores in Orange County.

Notes

Rumor mill: Insiders on the WPVA tour say Jackie Silva of Redondo Beach and Costa Mesa’s Rita Crockett probably will join forces after they return in May from playing indoors in Italy. . . . The Jose Cuervo amateur national championships likely will play a qualifying tournament May 11-12 at Capistrano Beach. The top two finishers in the men’s, women’s and open divisions will advance to the national finals in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., in September. Registration fee is $35. Call 714-496-1600 for registration information.