Canada will defend its title against the United States in the Final of the Men's Volleyball Pan American Cup

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 20, 2024.- The Canadian National Team defeated its counterpart from Puerto Rico with a score of 3-1 (25-16,25-22, 23-25, 25-21) to advance to the Final and defend their title in the Men's Pan American Volleyball Cup that is being played at the National Volleyball Pavilion of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center.

Canada was better in attacks 57-49, in blocks 12-2 and in serves 8-3.

Jackson Howe with 19 points was the most outstanding for Canada accompanied by Jordan Canham with 18, while Isaac Heslinga and Jesse Elser contributed 16 and 15 points respectively. Klistan Lawrence led the Puerto Ricans' scoring with 17 points followed by Omar Hoyos and Pedro Molina with 8 points each.

Glenn Hoag, coach of Canada: We are very happy with the victory, obviously Puerto Rico had a slow start but they played very well and I think in the last two sets there was a high level of volleyball on both sides so I am happy that we won the game.

Alberto Torres, coach of Puerto Rico: For me, Canada has been the best team in the tournament, the correlation of their service and blocking has been dominant in the tournament, at the beginning of the match it was a little difficult for us to play, I think we are emotionally tired but we recovered and competed, which was what we wanted and excited to have the opportunity to play for a medal, we came here for that and tomorrow we are going to fight for the bronze medal to be on the podium.

This Sunday the event concludes with the following matches:

Positions 5-6 Dominican Republic v Colombia 1:00 pm (local time)

Bronze Medal Cuba v Puerto Rico 3:00 pm (local time)

Gold Medal Canada v United States 5:00 pm (local time)