Venezuela defeat Trinidad and Tobago in the round for places 5 to 8

CORDOBA, Mexico, November 29, 2014 - Venezuela defeated Trinidad and Tobago in straight sets (25-22, 25-15, 25-21) in the classification round for places 5 to 8 of Men’s Competition at XXII Central American and Caribbean Games.

Luis Arias Guzman scored 14 points, while Roberth Abreu closed with 12 and Emerson Rodriguez with 11 for the Venezuelan team that dominated in blocking 8-5, but Trinidad and Tobago was above them in serving 4-3.

On the Trinidadian side, Ryan Stewart tallied 11 points. His team surrendered 21 points, while Venezuela gave up 24.

“Congratulations fo Venezuela. I know after last night experience against Mexico they were going to play at the same level. At least my team played much better, struggled a little bit on defense, but generally it was much better,” said Nolan Tash, captain of Trinidad and Tobago.

“I’m happy for today’s victory. It is difficult to turn out the page, but we did it after the loss against Mexico. We improved in defense and blockiing, fortunatelly we could win and closed the sets,” Kervin Pinerua, captain of Venezuela stated.

“Congratulations to team Venezuela. After a long match for them last night, I think we played a good first set, only in the second we were behind Venezuela but gave a good fight in the third, but there is a lot more to go,” said Gideon Dickson coach of Trinidad and Tobago.

“Today it was easy to play, because last night it was a tough match. Very dangeroust and had to play very well mentally. Today there were good plays and I had to use some players to observe like number 16 Roberth Abreu as part of the process to the Olympic Cycle,” said Vicenzo Nacci, coach of Venezuela.