Dominican Republic gets ticket to semifinals

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, July 20, 2010 – Dominican Republic advanced to the semifinals of the women’s volleyball tournament at the XXI Central American and Caribbean Games after claiming a 3-0 (25-14, 25-14, 25-21) victory over Trinidad & Tobago and winning top place in Pool A.

Veterans Annerys Vargas and Milagros Cabral topped the winners with 12 and 10 points respectively and Lisvel Eve contributed 8 to the victory. Trinidadian Krystle Esdelle recorded 8 points for the defeated team.

“It has been our lowest game for us in terms of production but Trinidad & Tobago is a very tall team so we had to find our way to come through against their high blocking,” Cabral said.

“I don’t know how many errors we made with our serves but other than that we had a good fight against a team like Dominican Republic,” Esdelle said.

“Tomorrow we have a day off so we are going to train hard and study the team we are going to meet in the semifinals on Thursday,” Dominican Republic’s coach Marcos Kwiek said.

“We didn’t have that kind of problems with our serves in the recent competitions and we have been training in our serves for more than one hour today. But these things just happens,” Trinidad & Tobago’s coach Francisco Cruz said.