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PHILLIPSBURG, St. Maarten, July 24, 2015 – St. Lucia remain on
course to defend title after a straight set (25-17, 25-21 and
25- 17) victory over Anguilla in the first match of day 2 of the
ECVA Junior Male Championships.
The sub regional powerhouse took a little over 1 hour to
overpower the Anguillans who were making a valiant attempt at
resisting.
The Anguillans scoring was so poor that they had to rely on
opponents errors to garner almost 80% (43 of 55) of their
points. On the individual level two players in Aiden Hazzard and
Aldus Frank both had 3 points to be the top scorers for the
losers.
St. Lucia dominated the scoring with 23 to 5 in spikes, 9 to 3
in blocks and 6 to 4 from the service line.
Anton Richards in the Middle Blocker position for St. Lucia was
the leading scorer of the game with 8 but support came from all
his regular team mates. Andre Marquis and Levy Leonce each
contributed 7 Alexander Augier had 6 Elijah Lionel and Scott
Louis both chipped in with 5.
Coach Germaine Elvin was pleased with the effort. “This is a
team that we have researched and we noted that there are areas
that they have improved from the last time we played them. Their
serves was very good and their overall play forced us to raise
our bar of competitiveness. Hence our blockers got in position
at the appropriate time, our reception was good, and we had a
decent attack although at times there were some spells when
especially the younger players got timid and fail to execute on
a play. However they grew in confidence and gave us yet another
satisfactory victory”, he recounted.
Coach of Anguilla had high praise for the victors. “The St.
Lucia team literally took away what we had planned. Our attack
turned out to be one dimensional and all credit to them they
muted that attack. Overall inexperience showed up again as we
were doing some things well but we did not do them in a
consistent manner enough to hurt a team such as St. Lucia. This
was compounded by many unforced errors. This meant that we were
not able to compete,” he explained. |
