El Salvador unstoppable for second consecutive day 

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, August 8, 2016. - El Salvador earned their second consecutive win while beating Nicaragua in straight sets 25-23, 25-19, 26-24 on day three of the AFECAVOL Women’s U23 Central American Championship held at Gimnasio 7 de Diciembre Alfonso Gordillo.

El Salvador had another stunning performance stopping Nicaragua’s spikers while digging every single attack, sustaining a ten point margin in the first set. El Salvador showed a spirited performance with high-energy, added to a structured game plan. Nicaragua on the other hand, was committing many unforced errors having difficulties to regroup.

Nicaragua’s huge 10-4 margin in blocking wasn´t enough to balance their 41 unforced errors. In spikes there wasn’t a significant difference, with El Salvador leading 29-26; also the winners held 5-3 advantage in aces and committed 24 errors.

Roxana Avalos of El Salvador and Ericka Calero of Nicaragua led their teams with 11 points apiece.

El Salvador (2-0) will rest on Tuesday, while Nicaragua (1-1) plays against Belize (0-2).

“I can resume today’s win in one Word “attitude”, each one of us did their job and we fought in a positive way. Nicaragua improved as the match developed and their serves were tougher in the third set” expressed Laura Villalobos.

Coach Dany Calderon was satisfied with their strategy “we played the same as yesterday but trying to commit fewer errors. In the third set we had too many of them. Nicaragua took us by surprise in the first set when they changed their setter to spiker and that’s why we weren’t able to keep our advantage”. Dany also added “my twelve warriors are here to fight”.

Ericka Calero captain of Nicaragua said that they lost because their attitude was bad “we lost focus from the start and our moral was down, in contrary from El Salvador, they were always cheering and benefited from our mistakes”.

“We had many mistakes, El Salvador grew in the first set and we got in trouble more and more. After this loss, we have to work on the emotional factor; errors are the cause of defeats and today our receiving wasn’t effective and this didn’t allow us to attack as we know” said coach Claudia Noguera of Nicaragua.