EAST QUOGUE, N. Y. - Top-seeded Lisa Arce and Holly McPeak captured their fifth-straight "major" title on the Evian Women's Pro Beach Volleyball Tour here Sunday (August 3) by winning the $50,000 Evian Invitational on Tiana Beach.

Arce and McPeak, who have now won seven of 10 Evian Tour events this season, defeated second-seeded Karolyn Kirby and Nancy Reno 15-9 in the championship match to share the $12,300 fist-place prize.

Echo Entertainment of Encino, Calif., taped the Evian Invitational for distribution via FOX Sports and its regional outlets (to be aired the week of August 3).

The Evian Invitational title was the 13th for the Arce/McPeak partnership in their pro beach volleyball career together, including 11 on the Evian Tour.

Kirby and Reno, who have now dropped three of four championship matches this season to Arce and McPeak, split $9,350 for finishing second in the two-day, 16-match event featuring the top eight teams on the Evian Tour.

Arce and McPeak, who have now won 25-straight matches in Evian Tour grand slam events, advanced to the finals with a 15-12 win over third-seeded Barbra Fontana and Linda Hanley.

Kirby and Reno scored a 15-4 win over seventh-seeded Elaine Roque and Dennie Shupryt-Knoop to advance to their fifth final this season. The Kirby/Reno tandem won Evian Tour events this season at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. and Atlantic City, N. J., this season.

Fontana and Hanley led from the start to defeat Roque and Shupryt- Knoop 15-6 to split $8,200 for finishing third. Roque and Shupryt- Knoop, who posted two upset wins Saturday to advance to Sunday's final four, shared $6,000 for third-place.

Arce and McPeak, who started their grand slam streak by winning last season's Evian Invitational tile in New York's Central Park, will be trying for a record-tying six "major" titles in a row next weekend (August 8-10) at the Evian National Championships in Hermosa Beach, Calif. Kirby and Liz Masakayan set the record with six-straight wins during the 1993 and 1994 seasons.