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Anguilla succumb to Lucia Pressure

 

   

PHILLIPSBURG, St. Maarten, July 24, 2015 – St. Lucia remain on course to defend title after a straight set (25-17, 25-21 and 25- 17) victory over Anguilla in the first match of day 2 of the ECVA Junior Male Championships.

 

The sub regional powerhouse took a little over 1 hour to overpower the Anguillans who were making a valiant attempt at resisting.

 

The Anguillans scoring was so poor that they had to rely on opponents errors to garner almost 80% (43 of 55) of their points. On the individual level two players in Aiden Hazzard and Aldus Frank both had 3 points to be the top scorers for the losers.

 

St. Lucia dominated the scoring with 23 to 5 in spikes, 9 to 3 in blocks and 6 to 4 from the service line.

 

Anton Richards in the Middle Blocker position for St. Lucia was the leading scorer of the game with 8 but support came from all his regular team mates. Andre Marquis and Levy Leonce each contributed 7 Alexander Augier had 6 Elijah Lionel and Scott Louis both chipped in with 5.

 

Coach Germaine Elvin was pleased with the effort. “This is a team that we have researched and we noted that there are areas that they have improved from the last time we played them. Their serves was very good and their overall play forced us to raise our bar of competitiveness. Hence our blockers got in position at the appropriate time, our reception was good, and we had a decent attack although at times there were some spells when especially the younger players got timid and fail to execute on a play. However they grew in confidence and gave us yet another satisfactory victory”, he recounted.

 

Coach of Anguilla had high praise for the victors. “The St. Lucia team literally took away what we had planned. Our attack turned out to be one dimensional and all credit to them they muted that attack. Overall inexperience showed up again as we were doing some things well but we did not do them in a consistent manner enough to hurt a team such as St. Lucia. This was compounded by many unforced errors. This meant that we were not able to compete,” he explained.