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St. Martin crushes BVI in straight sets

 

   

PHILLIPSBURG, St. Maarten – July 24, 2015 - St. Martin wasted little time in disposing of the British Virgin Islanders (BVI) in straight sets (25-5, 25 -6 and 25-9) in game 4 of the ECVA Junior Female Championship. The entire game lasted a total of 44 minutes and the French girls hardly had a reason to exert real effort.

 

It was painful to see the BVI struggle with reception as St. Martin got 29 points from services that were literally not returned. The teams’ Spikes total was 6-3 while the only 4 blocks of the night were done by St. Martin.

 

Coach of the BVI team - Willis Potter was rather plain to point to the fact that his team simple did not compete. “They just seemed a bundle of nerves out there and as a result did not play as expected. They put in some effort at the end of games but that was too little too late.  Frankly, I think that they were intimidated by the occasion and thus failed to execute and failed to compete.

 

St. Martin’s coach Jean- Luc Lezin was not quite ready to celebrate. “We came here knowing that we were defeated last time around by St. Lucia in the finals. So this game was just a step towards our ultimate goal and that is to do one better that last time. It was not a difficult game but we had to stay focused as there is a tendency to relax in these situations.

 

Outside Hitter for St. Martin stood above all else in points as she alone had double figures (14) during the game. Most of her points came from service aces while Lauriane Ternon collected Kills 2 blocks and 3 aces to contribute 8 points to the victory. For the losers opponents errors accounted for 17 of the 20 points they eked out.