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HAVANA, Cuba, October 7, 2022.- Dominican
Republic won over Haiti in straight sets (25-23,
25-23, 25-19) to play for the fifth place of the
Men’s U21 Pan American Cub on Saturday at Ciudad
Deportiva in the country’s capital.
Dominican Republic sealed the serene match in 1
hour and 22 minutes, avoiding that their
opponents’ fast actions could put things
difficult and concluded with advantages in
attacks (43-38) and blocks (12-3), both teams
with serves (2-2) and committing more errors
(22-18).
Outside hitter Ronny Molina stood out once
again, leading all scorers with 22 points,
followed by teammate opposite hitter Elixander
Gómez who scored 15. For Haiti, their opposite
hitter Estakend Beauvoir also stood out with 21
tallies, the only one with double figures.
José Dante Manon, Dominican head coach commented
“Haitian boys have a lot of strength and jump a
lot, but they are short, so we played high balls
from the sides with my players using their
height and they attacked over the block, and it
worked out. Now we must prepare for tomorrows’
match against the winner between Nicaragua and
Chile, for fifth place”.
Setter Fernelis Ramírez said “today we played
more focused, we improved everything we think we
have going wrong, like our blocking and we tried
to press in that skill and reception, and balls
that weren’t right we tried to improve them, we
were paying more attention the entire match”.
Junior Siecle, head coach of Haiti, was sad for
their setback “we know the Dominican team and I
think we could have won; we are sad because we
almost had the match in our hands, I feel
disappointed. We have one match left, against
Nicaragua or Chile, who ever we face we will
battle strong to not finish last in the
tournament”.
Captain Dieulengy Relis said “we feel
disappointed because the match was practically
in our hand, and winning was the possibility of
playing for the fifth place, but we committed
too many errors. Nevertheless, tomorrow we will
battle for victory, we don’t want to be the last
ones”. |
