Costa Rica earns second victory

BELIZE CITY, Belize, July 18, 2023. Costa Rica earned their second victory at the XIV U19 Women's AFECAVOL Central American Championship, on this occasion 3-0 (25-16/25-19/25-14) against Honduras.

In the first set Honduras showed they were eager to win, an 8-1 lead put the defending Central American champion Costa Rica in trouble, but they recovered quickly with a 9 points advantage, finishing the set 25-16.

Honduras finished down by six points in the second set, which ended 25-19. The third set was the definitive one, Costa Rica won by a difference of 11 points, 25-14.

Costa Rica’s team captain, opposite Angélica Rodríguez scored 11 points in her team’s victory, on 9 attacks, 1 block and 1 ace, her teammate, middle blocker Nhya Barley scored 9 points, from 7 kills, 1 block and 1 serve.

Honduras leading scorer was middle blocker Natalia Aguilar with 9 points, on 4 attacks, 3 blocks and 2 serves, her teammate, also middle blocker, Isabella García scored 8 points, all from attacks.

Costa Rica dominated 30-21 in attacks, 14-5 in serves and 5-3 in blocks. Honduras scored 20 points from opponent errors and Costa Rica 26 points on errors from Honduras.

On Wednesday 19, Costa Rica will meet with Nicaragua at 2:30pm and Honduras against the hosts Belize at 7:30pm.

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Alexandra Hernández, Libero of Honduras: “We are satisfied with the work, since we are a new team, we have been growing little by little, we believe that we played well, we have had a change in attitude and performance in the last two games, and we are happy to be in this tournament”.

Rashany Solano, Libero of Costa Rica: “Today was a beneficial game, luckily we won 3-0, we came to defend the title, we are a very united team, and we know that we can do better and we will improve throughout the tournament”.