Guatemala overcame El Salvador in straight Sets

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, October 11, 2014. - Host Guatemala overcame El Salvador in straight sets 25-13, 25-21, 25-20 at the Women’s XVIII Central American Cup at Teodoro Palacios Flores Gymnasium.

Guatemala won the first set without complications but in the next two sets El Salvador limited Guatemala’s outside offensive forcing them to use another strategy to take control again. Guatemala improved their record to 4-1 and adds 21 points; El Salvador dropped their record to 0-5 and has 2 points.

The home team out-blocked El Salvador 10-5, in kills they weren’t much superior 30-29 as well as in aces 3-2. Guatemala scored via 32 errors from El Salvador while producing 18 of their own.

Outside hitter Blanca Recinos and opposite Natalia Giron scored 10 points apiece leading Guatemala’s scorers. Captain Adriana Flores topped El Salvador with 13 points.

Guatemalan captain Diana Arias said “our union as a team shows, anyone can do the job as we trust one another. For tomorrow I expect the match to be intense and a good spectacle, we must stick to our strategy to win”.

“We continue to lack determination, our defense was weak and we have to work together as a team to obtain results” said captain Adriana Flores of El Salvador.

Coach David Aldana of Guatemala congratulated El Salvador because they have come from less to more “they pushed hard yesterday against Nicaragua and today they did it again, we were in trouble in the second set and that’s why we made some adjustments. We used more our middle blockers because El Salvador contained our outside hitters. Our middle blockers performed efficiently today, Aury Alvarez was very fast and precise, as well as Estefanie Bethancourt. We expect a well disputed match against Costa Rica and we really have nothing to lose, we are already among the medalists and hopefully we can work on their faults”.  

“We always aspire for more and I believe we’ve been battling strong. Guatemala took advantage of our weak blocking in the middle; I am satisfied that we were able to counterattack on the ends, but we need to work harder” said coach Alexander Polanco.