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Tegucigalpa, July 31, 2022.- El Salvador
achieved its first victory in the V Afecavol
Women's U23 Championship by dramatically winning
3-2 (15-25, 26-24, 25-20, 12-25, 15-8 ) to
Nicaragua, at the beginning of the fourth day of
the tournament.
The Salvadorans were 1-2 in wins and losses, 2-2
to the Nicaraguans, who started the first set
strong, but in the other sets they were always
down on the scoreboard.
Daniela Ayala was the best for El Salvador with
15 points and captain Daniela López got 14. For
Nicaragua Gimalry Smith got 20 points, María
Belén Arcia 16 and Brittany Forbes 13.
Nicaragua dominated the attack 53-35, the
services 12-8 and were even in blocking at 11,
but El Salvador took advantage of the 39 points
for errors of his opponent for 26 committed.
Daniela López, captain of El Salvador: “I feel
very happy and content with my team, today the
goal was achieved, we got the win and we looked
good as a team, we played together, we were
happy, we celebrated everything and that was key
to achieving it. We had ups and downs, but we
knew how to overcome them and we hope to
maintain this spirit in the following games”.
Noé Fabián:” We've had injuries, illnesses, but
despite adversity we've been able to get up and
win a game. Today the teamwork helped us, all
the players focused on what they had to do and
the changes worked well”.
Claudia Noguera, coach of Nicaragua: “The lack
of concentration and the excess of confidence
affected us against El Salvador. After winning
the first set, in the middle of the second they
got too confident and there were moments of lack
of concentration and we are going to try to
recover the mental part in these last two games
that we have left”.
El Salvador will face Costa Rica this Monday at
2:00 p.m., while Nicaragua has a break. |
