Dominican Republic downs Canada in straight sets

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, July 1, 2011 – Dominican Republic defeated Canada 3-0 (25-23, 25-15, 25-13) in a contest of Pool A of the 10^th Women’s Pan American Volleyball Cup on Friday.

Lisvel Eve registered 15 points to lead the winning cause, including six aces and four blocks, and Prisilla Rivera added 10. Canada’s Sarah Pavan charted 9 points for the losers.

“The Dominican Team played well but we can play better”, Captain Milagros Cabral said. “We are a little scare because of the knee injury of our opposite Altagracia Mambru late in the first set and we hope is not something major.”

Mambru, who scored 8 points, scored point 24 in the first set but twisted her right knee and was taken out to a local hospital for x-rays.

“It was a tough first set and it took a while for us to adjust,” Dominican Republic’s coach Marcos Kwiek said. “I think our serves were the difference during the second and third set.”

“We are disappointed about losing the first set,” Canada’s Tammy Mahon said. “We didn’t have discipline in the next two sets and I hope we can clean up that in our next games”.

“We made 20 errors in the last two sets and we couldn’t play well after the injury to the Dominican player,” Canada’s Arnd Ludwig.