Dominican Bethania de la Cruz, among top scorers in second round

BARI, Italy, October 1, 2014.- Dominican player Bethania de la Cruz is among top scorers after the beginning of the second round of FIVB Women’s World Championship.

De la Cruz scored 30 points against Belgium on Wednesday as well as Belgian Lise Van Hecke, who registered the same quantity in that match. Van Hecke also scored 23 against Azerbaijan on September 27th.

Another representative of the NORCECA Confederation among the best in statistics is Cuban Regla Gracia Gonzalez. Despite her country has been eliminated of contention, Regla registered six aces to be on top of servers in the competition.

She achieved the record on September 29 after the match against Azerbaijan. The list of scorers and statistics of FIVB World Championship is as follows:

Top scorer by day

Polina Rahimova- 33 of Azerbaijan v Japan on 23-9-14

Brankica Mihajlovic- 31 of Serbia v Bulgaria on 24-9-14

Polina Rahimova- 32 of Azerbaijan v Puerto Rico on 25-9-14

Lise Van Hecke- 23 of Belgium v Azerbaijan on 27-9-14

Tatiana Kosheleva-31 of Russia v USA on 28-9-14

Bethania De La Cruz De Peña-30 of Dominican Republic v Belgium and

Lise Van Hecke-30 of Belgium v Dominican Republic on 1-10-14

Top scoring performances

33- Polina Rahimova of Azerbaijan v Japan on 23-9-14

32- Polina Rahimova of Azerbaijan v Puerto Rico on 25-9-14

31- Brankica Mihajlovic of Serbia v Bulgaria on 24-9-14

31- Tatiana Kosheleva of Russia v USA on 28-9-14

Top blocking performances

10- Kubra Akman of Turkey v Bulgaria on 25-9-14

9- Zhu Ting of China v Japan on 28-9-14

Top serving performances

6- Regla Gracia Gonzalez of Cuba v Azerbaijan on 29-9-14

5- Mizuho Ishida of Japan v Azerbaijan on 23-9-14

5- Margareta Kozuch of Germany v Croatia on 28-9-14

Top team blocking performances

24- Brazil v Turkey on 27-9-14

19- China v Japan on 28-9-14

Top team serving performances

13- Croatia v Tunisia on 27-9-14

12- Germany v Croatia on 28-9-14

Highest scoring sets

36-34 Thailand v Mexico (2nd set) on 25-9-14

34-32 USA v Russia (1st set) on 28-9-14 

32-30 Netherlands v Mexico (1st set) on 28-9-14

Highest scoring matches

220- USA v Russia 3-1 (34-32, 25-19, 29-31, 26-24) on 28-9-14

218- Azerbaijan v Puerto Rico 3-2 (25-20, 24-26, 26-24, 16-25, 17-15) on 25-9-14

218- Croatia v Dominican Republic 2-3 (22-25, 13-25, 25-22, 26-24, 17-19) on 25-9-14

217- Dominican Republic v Germany 3-2 (22-25, 25-21, 25-21, 24-26, 15-13) on 23-9-14