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GATINEAU, Canada, June 26, 2015 – Chile blanked Barbados 3-0
(25-17, 25-10, 25-20) on Friday in just over one hour to advance
to the semifinals of the U21 Men’s Pan American Cup at the
Centre Sportif de Gatineau.
The South American squad dominated their opponents in attacks
(35-23) and blocks (12-7). Gianluca Boreli led the winner’
attack with 14 points, five more than captain Dusan Bonacic and
Gabriel Araya. The tournament’s top scorer Jabarry Goodridge led
Barbados with nine points, three more than captain Ammuniki Wood
and Chioke Holder.
Chile now will meet their South American rivals Brazil in the
semifinals on Saturday. Barbados will take on the loser of the
Mexico-USA match.
Dusan Bonacic, captain of Chile: “We saw a team determined to
do anything to win the match and show our intentions to play the
semifinals and the finals. Our next match against Brazil is the
best we could hoped for here. Very difficult to win. We know
what it takes to beat them. We need to have our best day and
they should have a low par day.
I am confident our team will give it all.”
Daniel Nejamkin, coach of Chile: “We achieved our goal of
advancing to the semifinals. I know we have a difficult match
against Brazil, one of the best teams in the tournament. Our
serve and our block were key in the outcome of today’s match. We
know Brazil very well. We
have played and done camps together before. I hope that knowing
each other would not mean much as they have defeated us every
time we have met before.”
Ammuniki Wood, captain of Barbados: “It hurts to know that in
the most important game we still haven’t shown the real
volleyball that we can play. It was a real under-par performance
today especially. Our passing was on today but our blocking was
really off. Up until today we haven’t shown what we can really
do on the court and it just hurts to know that the most
important game that we were supposed to show up, we didn’t show
up.”
John Stuart, head coach of Barbados: “We started the match very
good, but then we lost our momentum and we started to get flat.
The whole match we were playing hot and cold, sometimes playing
well and sometimes playing not so good. In the third set we
started pretty good but we made too many unforced errors. So now
we have to look forward to the game tomorrow.” |
