Dominica silences St. Eustatius

Oranjestad, St. Eustatius,  July 10, 2014 - Dominica drowned out the noise of a boisterous home crowd and beat St. Eustatius in straight sets 25-19, 25 -13, and 25- 21 in  the curtains game of the opening day of the ECVA Senior Women Championship.

The Earl Merkman Sports hall had about 250 persons, most supporting the home team but they soon became quiet after they realized that Dominica had taken charge of the encounter.

Dominica enjoyed a 9 point advantage in terms of kills (28 to 19) and edged the home team in the blocking department 8-5. They also got additional points courtesy of 36 errors committed by the hosts as opposed to 27 of their own.

Coach of the losing team Elvin Henriquez  was very dissatisfied. "I am not happy at all. We made far too many errors and this is the area we have to improve if we want to win  and attain our objective of moving on to the medal round. Anyway we are still optimistic" he asserted.

"We were really energized by the crowd urging us on, but I have to agree with our coach that our poor communication led to some very simple errors. We have to improve that and be more consistent reported" captain Amarikinia Robins of St. Eustatius.

Albert Loblack; head coach of Dominica insisted that  the victory was merely a result of hard work. "It was our preparation, our consistency and composure that gave us victory tonight. Although we lost concentration at some points we used our bench to combat against that"  he said.

Dominica's captain -  Anna Maria Xavier led from in front with ten points but had good support from Zahidu Henry with 9 and 7 points each from Marcia Renault - Gustave and Lisa James.

St. Eustatius scorers were led by Ashanty Principaal with 10 points. St. Eustatius next test is against St. Kitts/Nevis on day 2 while Dominica will look for their second win against Dutch St. Maarten.