Canada against Peru for seventh place at Men’s Pan Am Cup

COLIMA, Mexico, June 19, 2019.- Canada won 3-0 (25-14, 25-22, 25-14) against Dominican Republic to face Peru for the seventh place of the Men’s Pan American Cup being held at the Multifunctional Auditorium of Colima, Mexico.

Canada is scheduled to play Peru for seventh place on Thursday, while Dominican Republic will play a preliminary round rematch against Guatemala for the ninth position.

Canada had little resistance to finish on top Dominican Republic with 32-25 advantage in attacks, a comfortable 13-8 in blocks and 8-3 in aces. Canada finished with 15 errors and Dominican Republic with 22.

Canada distributed their scoring between opposite Adam Schouten with 14 points including 3 aces, middle blocker Danny Demyanenko with 11 points including 4 powerful blocks and Craig Ireland with 10 points. Henry Tapia was the only Dominican with double-figures scoring 12 points. 

Comments:

Craig Ireland, outside hitter Canada: “This was our first game where we really came together, so it was really nice to see everyone having fun; our defense and passing were really good. We’re a good passing team and we didn’t show it in our previous games, we did some nice block touches and digs in the back.  We’re a new team and this was a new environment for us, so it took us a little too long to come together.

John Barrett, coach Canada: “I am very happy for my players because we executed what we wanted to do and we finally showed the level that we can play at. We didn’t miss nearly as many serves as before so it’s a good feeling to come out with a victory; it was a better rhythm because of the serving. We didn’t break our own rhythm so we got a chance to play more”.

Henry López, captain Dominican Republic: “We didn’t perform with our usual energy, because we had difficulties with Canada’s strong serves and blocking, forcing us to make some using less experienced players to try and recover”.