USA finish campaign with a five setter loss against Argentina
 

BYDGOSZCZ, Poland, September 14, 2014 –Argentina eliminated USA with a 3-2 victory (19-25, 28-26, 25-20, 23-25, 15-11) in Pool E of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship at the Luczniczka Hall on Sunday. 

Argentina’s Facundo Conte won the scoring game with 21 points over USA’s Matthew Anderson, who had 18 markers. The USA would have been certain of a third round berth with a 3-0 or 3-1 victory, but Argentina forced USA to a tiebreaker that eventually capped their 2014 campaign. 

Argentina have ended their campaign but finished with two consecutive victories. USA used the same lineup in all five sets, only David Smith saw action from the USA bench in the third set. 

USA and Argentina both had five players scoring in double figures.

 USA led in the fifth set but a solid block by Sebastian Sole tied the score at 4-4. Conte’s attack gave Argentina the lead at 8-7 on side change. Then at 9-8, an important challenge favoured USA. Sole’s block brought the lead back to Argentina 11-8 until Conte found an open court to score put the lead up 12-8. Gonzalez gave Argentina match point and Sole’s block finished the set and match 15-11.