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Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, July 18, 2022 – The girls
of the Dominican Republic used their height and
speed to defeat Costa Rica, 3-0 (25-10, 25-6,
25-11) at the Girls U19 Pan American Cup on
Monday at the Cox Business Convention Center in
Tulsa.
Dominican Republic (1-0) will continue pool play
on Tuesday against Brazil. Costa Rica (0-1) will
play Puerto Rico. All matches are being live
streamed at
https://www.ballertv.com/events/2022-norceca-girls-u19-pan-american-cup.
Dominican Republic led the statistics, with
greater numbers of spikes (33-14), blocks (7-0)
and aces (16-0).
Sellany Puente of Dominican Republic led all
scorers with 16 points on nine kills, three
blocks and four aces. Ariana Rodriguez had six
aces for the DR.
Silvana Zavaleta paced Costa Rica with six
points.
Wagner Pacheco, coach of Dominican Republic:
“It was a good start for us but the tournament
is just beginning for us. Many of our younger
girls had chances to play. We need to keep
working to get the ticket to the world
championship”.
Costa Rica Head Coach Kareem Richards:
“We knew it was going to be a complicated start.
It’s the first tournament for these girls. Our
goal is to gain experience. As I said before you
learn more from the losses than the victories.
We’ll continue representing our country with
pride trying to do the things better with each
day.” |
