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MORELIA, Mexico, September 28. 2015. - Cuba improved their
record (1-1) at NORCECA Women’s Continental Championship while
beating Costa Rica 3-0 (25-14, 25-15, 25-21) on Monday at
Bicentenario Auditorium of Morelia, Michoacan.
Cuba in Pool A earns their first win to improve their record
(1-1) with seven points; Costa Rica has 0-2 record.
Cuba fell into Costa Rica’s rhythm, keeping the scores always
close. On occasions Costa Rica held advantage gaining more
confidence as they pressured the Caribbean team with strong
serves. Cuba engaged in miss communications putting themselves
on a difficult spot. Finally, Cuba settled and won in straight
sets.
Cuba beat Costa Rica with 36-21 margin in spikes and with huge
advantage in blocks 12-4. Costa Rica led in aces 3-2. Errors
were similar, Cuba (22) and Costa Rica (25).
Cuban Opposite Heidy Rodriguez scored 22 points for a
match-high, 19 on kills and 3 blocks; she was the only one with
double digits on her team. Mijal Hines topped Costa Rica with 11
points, all in kills.
Cuba and Costa Rica conclude Pool A action on Tuesday facing
United States and Canada respectively.
“We got into their rhythm instead of setting our pace. It’s good
to have won because it prepares us for tomorrow’s match against
United States” said captain Sulian Matienzo of Cuba.
Captain Irene Fonseca of Costa Rica said “Cuba is a powerful
team and we did our best; in the third set they made variations
in their line-up, giving us more confidence do perform. We are
satisfied with our performance”.
Coach Roberto Garcia of Cuba indicated “Costa Rica did well,
their serves were effective and gave us a hard time; they have a
good staff in charge of their team. We are a team with more
international exposure and the result is positive, despite our
deficiencies”.
Costa Rica’s coach Braulio Godinez said “the fact that we kept
the scores close is motivating and an improvement for us.
Evidently Cuba has superiority and we tried not to complicate
our own game”. |
