Costa Rica adds fourth victory at AFECAVOL U23
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, August 10, 2016. - Costa Rica beat
Nicaragua 3-0 (25-14, 25-18, 25-10) to add their fourth
victory on day five of the AFECAVOL Women’s U23 Central American
Championship being held at Gimnasio 7 de Diciembre Alfonso
Gordillo.
The reigning champion Costa Rica earned five important points to
accumulate a total of 18 and keeping their winning mark now with
4-0 record. Nicaragua remains with seven points and drops their
record 1-3.
Costa Rica had control of the actions in set one while Nicaragua
had many imprecisions. In the second, Nicaragua demanded more
from Costa Rica as they scored five consecutive points, keeping
the score closer than in the first. Without complications, Costa
Rica finished in three with overwhelming advantage.
Costa Rica finished with a huge 36-19 margin in spikes; they
also held advantage 7-5 in blocks and 9-3 in serving points.
Costa Rica scored on 23 errors from their opponents and
committed 15 errors of their own.
Mónica Castro con 10 puntos, Mariana Rodríguez con 9 y Tania
Carazo con 7, tuvieron a su cargo la ofensiva de Costa Rica. Por
su lado, las nicaragüenses Ericka Calero y Andrea Periera
anotaron 8 y 7 puntos respectivamente.
Costa Rica (4-0) meets Honduras (2-1) and Nicaragua (1-3) faces
Guatemala (3-0) on Thursday.
Captain Tatiana Sayles of Costa Rica, who rested because of a
minor pain in her shoulder, spoke about what she observed from
the bench “my teammates were disciplined in blocking and in
serving. It was important to use all our players, each one
responded well in their positions and the team worked well
together as players got in”.
Ericka Calero of Nicaragua insists that her team has a bad
attitude “we know how to perform, proof of that is what we did
in the second, however we lack energy”.
Coach Braulio Godinez of Costa Rica considered that Nicaragua
had a more demanding match yesterday than his team “they seemed
tired and lacking emotion, it was a very technical match for
us”. About his strategy he added “we rotated the whole line-up,
this was our plan, and we benefited from the fact that the match
was very technical. We hope to count with all our players
tomorrow”.
“Our offensive line didn’t work well, a team that doesn’t
attack, doesn’t play; they allowed Costa Rica to take the
initiative. Our state of mind after losing yesterday has been
hard on my players” indicated Nicaragua’s coach Claudia Noguera.
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