Costa Rica on the right track at Central American Cup

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, October 9, 2014.- Defending champion Costa Rica continues on the right track defeating El Salvador 3-0 (25-13, 25-17, 25-6) at the Women’s XVIII Central American Cup.

Every player of Costa Rica had a moment on court as they dominated the entire actions of their straight set victory that keeps them undefeated. Costa Rica has a 3-0 win-loss record and 13 points; El Salvador remains win-less with 0-3 and one point.

Costa Rica served off El Salvador with a huge advantage in kills of 40-15, 9-1 in the blocking category and 3-1 in aces. 

Opposite player Mijal Hines was Costa Rica’s topped scorer with 13 points and team captain Angela Willis collected 10 points. For El Salvador, captain Adriana Flores led with 9 points.

Angela Willis stated “we analyze each opponent and set a different game plan for each; El Salvador has good defense so we worked on trying to be more precise and lowering our margin of errors. Today we had a better rhythm and the score allowed us to use all our bench players”.

“We couldn’t resolve our own performance and score more. Our defense was out of rhythm, we lost concentration, and the team is developing because our players are very young” said Adriana Flores of El Salvador.

Coach Horacio Bastit said there is a still a lot to improve “our strength is over the net and we committed two unforced errors in our offensive which shouldn’t be happening; I didn’t like our performance in the second set. Despite obtaining results, our objectives are not only based on them. In this tournament there’s no good or bad opponent, there are different opponents and El Salvador has very good serves which we controlled with our reception which did very good today”.

Coach Alexander Polanco of El Salvador indicated “more than half the team is very young and evolving, this means I don’t have changes. Our defense and reception are performing well, we covered well the blocking zone, which for me is improvement; but we lack strength in our offensive making it harder for us to score. Our serves helped us during short periods during the match. We are learning more with each performance”.