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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, October 19, 2015.- Costa Rica beat El
Salvador in five thrilling sets 3-2 (18-25, 25-13, 25-15, 12-25,
15-10) for their third win at AFECAVOL Men’s U-19 Central
American Championship in Teodoro Palacios Flores Gymnasium.
El Salvador took Costa Rica by surprise as they were win-less,
grabbing them two important points that will make a substantial
difference for the teams ranking. Costa Rica has 3-0 record and
11 points, El Salvador has 0-4 record and two points.
Costa Rica was too overconfident and with consecutive errors El
Salvador took them by surprise winning set one by a comfortable
margin. The story changed in set two when Costa Rica charged
batteries and overpowered winning set two with huge advantage.
Costa Rica struggled again with errors and they had to work hard
to move away in set three. El Salvador’s blocking hold off Costa
Rica’s who couldn’t recover from an overwhelming eight point
deficit in set four, forcing to a tie-break.
Costa Rica held 46-37 margin in spikes and 4-3 in serves, El
Salvador prevailed in blocking 9-5. In errors, Costa Rica
committed 39 and El Salvador 40.
Opposite Mariano Salas topped Costa Rica’s scorers with 16
points and outside hitter Jose Ortiz contributed with 13 points.
El Salvador’s outside hitters Diego Ascencio and Walter Orellana
scored 17 and 15 points respectively.
Captain Luis Cordero of Costa Rica said “every opponent is
worthy of respect, we started too relaxed and we didn’t expect
the match to be so hard. The team didn’t have a good attitude
and we had ups and downs”.
Costa Rica’s coach Cesar Salas congratulated El Salvador
“everyone had beaten El Salvador and today they showed a
different attitude, they played to win and wanting to do things
different”. About his team he said “we performed poorly, there
was no consistency; we didn’t attack and El Salvador was more
aggressive than we were. On occasions we performed to their
rhythm and thinking ahead in the tournament we must examine how
to correct and change our attitude”.
Diego Ascencio “el Chino” captain of El Salvador said “we played
with a lot of energy; after yesterday’s match against Guatemala
we were motivated to perform stronger. We followed our coaches’
instructions, we still had errors but they were less. I
congratulate my team”.
Gerson Ceron coach of El Salvador said “we have grown with each
match and practice session, we still have limitations.
Traditionally we have respected Costa Rica and Guatemala too
much, we must face the man and not the name, that’s what my boys
did today; the showed that they can play as equals. Our blocking
worked well, we had less service errors and we improved our
reception”. |
