Haiti and Curacao advance to CAZOVA semifinals

ST CROIX, Virgin Islands, April 9, 2012 - Haiti and Curacao advanced to the semifinals of the CAZOVA Women’s Junior Championship and now will meet pools’ winners U.S. Virgin Islands and Trinidad and Tobago respectively. Barbados and Bonaire will play for the fifth place.

Haiti, who ranked second in Pool B, defeated Bonaire in straight sets (25-19, 25-16, 25-17) while Pool A runners-up Curacao outplayed Barbados in three sets (25-19, 25-20, 25-21).

The overall game of Haiti was well executed and dispatched the tough Bonaire in 65 minutes with its Captain Bellot registering 12 points that included 3 blocks and 2 aces.

Bellot said: “We came to win 3-0 and we did that. I am happy to achieve our goal,” while Coach Sarmiento added: “Even though we won 3-0 I believe we can do better. We must solve some of the problems before we play our semi-finals game against the host team.”

Allee Rayanalies, captain of Curacao: “We are in the semi-finals and now we must serve well, block and attack in our game against Trinidad and Tobago.”

Coach Arthwyn Luis added: “Tomorrow we have to fight to win the semi-final against Trinidad and Tobago.  They are a strong team with good serves and attack so we must receive well and block well to win that game.”