Puerto Rico won a tight victory over Canada and advanced to the semifinals

TRUJILLO, Peru, July 12, 2019. With a lot of heart and perseverance, the Puerto Rican team built their victory over Canada 3-1 with score (30-28, 13-25, 27-25, 26-24) and with this result it obtained its classification to the semifinal of the XVIII edition of the Pan-American Senior Women's Cup.

Canada had the top scorers of the game, Lea Gray and Kiera Van Ryk with 24 and 20 points respectively. But the Puerto Ricans would rise with the victory, led in the offensive by Paulina Prieto with 16 points, Stephanie Enright 15 and Aurea Cruz 12.

Puerto Rico was overtaken by the Canadians in attack (49-54) and blocking (7-10), but took a slight advantage in their favor in service (10-9).

Paulina Prieto, opposite of Puerto Rico: Canada made us a very good match. It was not easy to recover from the second set, they managed to make us lose many points; But the key was to keep fighting, be patient and not despair because we could make more mistakes.

Lea Gray, attacker tip of Canada: We are very disappointed. What we showed in the second set, is the level of volleyball in Canada. I'm proud of how we played that set, but we could not repeat it in the following sets. We will talk as a team why we could not close the first and fourth set, when we had the advantage in the score. It is something that we must study so that it does not happen again in the future.

Puerto Rico joins the already classified United States and Dominican Republic, the fourth classified will be defined from the duel of the second quarterfinal duel between Argentina and Colombia. The winner of this last match will advance to the semifinals of the Pan American Cup scheduled for Saturday, July 13 at the Gran Chimú Coliseum in Trujillo.