Trinidad & Tobago takes the third place in Pool B

MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico, August 31, 2011. – Trinidad & Tobago finished in third place of Pool B of the Men’s NORCECA Championship by scoring 3-0 (26-24, 25-17, 28-26) victory against Costa Rica and gave them a berth in the quarterfinals.

Despite Trinidad & Tobago won, the first and third sets were taken to the limit but Costa Rica wasn’t able to respond. The winners dominated with aces 9-1 and in blocks 7-4.

The best players for Trinidad & Tobago were Marc Honore with 21 points and Nolan Nash with 15. For the Costarican side, José Suarez with 9 points.

“Our goal was to be in the quarterfinals and we will hopefully build from here; Costa Rica has improved but we took advantage of their mistakes” said Nolan Nash, captain of Trinidad & Tobago.

Richard Smith, Costa Rica’s captain indicated “Trinidad played very well, we tried to do our best and they gave us a hard time”.

Gideon Dickson Trinidad & Tobago’s coach was pleased to be in the quarterfinals, “even if we won, both teams have grown and learned, I believe the reasons we won were: our serves and we wanted it more.”

“Our deficiencies in serves was key for the loss, we continue to make this mistake while Trinidad’s serve is strong and effective” said Cesar Salas.