Cuba shows its powerful service against Costa Rica

Tegucigalpa, Honduras. August 28, 2018. Cuba showed one of its weapons, getting 27 points per service to obtain a 3-0 victory (25-11, 25-15, 25-12) against Costa Rica in the Norceca U-18 Women's Volleyball Championship .

Led by Tainalien Castillo and Yaimaris García, both with 14 points, of them 11 and 8 for serves, respectively, the Cubans did not give freedom to the Costa Ricans who were outdone in everything.

The Cubans led the attacks (30-8) and blocking (5-0), taking advantage of the 28 points for errors of the opponent, for 13 they committed, and reached two wins, to define the first place of group A this Wednesday against Republic Dominican.

Thalia Moreno, Captain of Cuba: "Today we had to make many points in serve to support the team in the following games, since it is one of the strongest elements we have. In each game we are contributing a grain of sand to improve the previous match, and tomorrow we will try to make a good match because both we as Dominican are two good teams that we are well prepared. "

Jaime Echevarri, coach of Cuba: "We practically demanded that the girls put power into the serve, preparing them for tomorrow's game that we will go out to get the qualification to the semifinal. We have the pass to the other round, to the quarterfinals crossing, but we look for more, the first place in the group ".

Pamela Padilla, captain of Costa Rica: "We were always positive, sometimes we fell, but in the end we could not give the best of us for the serve that got us in trouble. We are happy to have played with an opponent that is very strong because it helps us in our experience".

"Our coach told us that every point we celebrated, that no matter how low we were on the scoreboard, we enjoyed the game."

o celebráramos, que por más abajo que estuviéramos en el marcador, que disfrutáramos del juego”.