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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, August 21, 2022.
Guatemala obtains second place after beating
Honduras 3-0 with partial 25-13/25-17/25-14 on
the last day of competition at the V Men's U23
Central American Championship, held at the
Palacio de los Deportes in San Salvador.
Guatemala could not get the five-time
championship, but did not miss the podium
against Honduras that finished the tournament in
last place.
The Guatemalans were superior getting a wide
lead in each set played. The first set ended
25-13, the second set 25-17 and the third set
24-14.
The 42-27 attack shows the clear strength of the
Guatemalan team, who also dominated blocks 5-4
and services 3-2.
Guatemala got 25 points from opponent errors and
committed only 11 errors.
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Reider Lucas, coach of Guatemala: “The
Guatemalan team came in second place, we leave
happy but not satisfied, it was quite a
demanding competition, the results were very
even among all the teams, we were able to win
four games, we lost one that was against the
Nicaraguan Champion, they come with a very solid
team, very mature for this category, to continue
working we came with aspirations to see if we
could win the five-time championship it was not
possible but we leave happy we have a new
generation, of the 12 athletes 10 are sub21, and
we feel happy with the work done”.
Javier Lucero, side from Guatemala: “We got a
good result, a second place, we fought as far as
we could, we are very happy with my team, we
know we could have given more but we are proud
of the place we occupy and we continue fighting
to win more tournaments ”. |
