El Salvador improves their record 3-2
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, August 10, 2016.- El Salvador beat
Panama 3-1 (25-21, 22-25, 25-16, 25-17) improving their win-loss
record 3-2 at the AFECAVOL Women’s U23 Central American
Championship.
Panama recovered from an eight point deficit (4-12) in the first
set with blocking and serves, slowing down their opponent’s
offense; however it wasn’t enough to take set one. Actions in
set two switched, El Salvador recovered from a seven point
deficit (9-16) but it was too late as Panamanians were on a
spiking spree winning their first set of the event. El Salvador
won set three getting more involved; in set four they jumped
into an early 6-0 lead that went on increasing with huge
advantage. El Salvador ended the match not before missing 4
match points.
El Salvador won by scoring on 52 errors from their opponent and
by a 14-9 margin in blocking. Panama had a monster blocking
(10-3), they did better in kills 30-28 and scored on 30 opponent
errors.
Gabriela Funes of El Salvador led her team with 14 points, on 10
kills and 4 aces. On Panama’s side, Yileen Ng was the top scorer
of the match with 18 points and Maria Carolina Añino added 12
points.
El Salvador (3-2) has a rest day on Thursday and in their last
performance Panama (0-5) will face Belize (1-3).
Gabriela Funes, leading El Salvador expressed “we were
over-confident; we have performed much better in other matches.
Panama blocked us a lot. With better attitude, order in our
receiving and limiting errors we finished winning”.
Captain Yileen Ng of Panama said “we had fewer errors in this
match and we are glad of the good battle against El Salvador”.
Maria Carolina Añino also spoke “we really want to fight and
win, today that worked. This team is talented and we have the
enthusiasm to improve Panama’s volleyball”.
Dany Calderon of El Salvador said his team followed instructions
“they were too confident and after following our game plan, we
were able to win”.
Coach Juan Giron of Panama indicated that his attack worked well
in the set they won “we need more rhythm, but in the second my
hitters performed well, also the blockers stopped El Salvador’s
diagonal attack”. |