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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, August 30, 2015.-
Guatemala triumphed over Honduras 3-0 (25-13, 25-14, 25-18) at
the Men’s U-21 XVI Central American Championship in Adolfo
Pineda on Sunday.
Guatemala obtained their second win to stand with a 2-0 record
and 9 points; Honduras drops to 1-2 record and remains with 5
points.
Guatemala managed to win spaces with powerful spikes and serves,
while Honduras had important points thru blocking; Guatemala
finished the first set 25-22. The actions in the second set were
completely controlled by Guatemala, with 8-0 advantage at the
first technical time-out; Guatemala doubled Honduras in points
but still they missed four set points before ending 25-14 over
Honduras who never reacted. For the third set, Honduras seemed
to have woken up, forcing Guatemala to work harder. Guatemala
held a five point advantage 14-9 that Honduras never overcame;
Guatemala took the set 25-18.
Guatemala prevailed over Honduras in every skill, spikes
(39-20), blocks (8-5) and aces (6-2); they score don 22 errors
from Honduras and committed 18.
Outside Hitter Carlos Lopez of Guatemala led the score board
with 20 points, 14 on spikes, 2 on blocks and 4 on aces; joining
the winning effort was Opposite Erik Flores with 13 points and
Outside Hitter Wagner Chacon with 10. Top scorer for Honduras
was Abner Funez with 8 points.
According to Erik Flores captain of Guatemala, the win comes
because of the union in his team “I believe this is our
strength. Today the team is complete and we managed to
neutralize their strongest players”.
Cuban Reider Lucas coach of Guatemala said “we set a strategy
having in mind that Honduras was coming inspired after two great
performances and our goal was to fight and win. The victory was
in fact for us and it’s much better to have done it 3-0”.
Alejandro Avila captain of Honduras said “after playing ten sets
in two days, the team is tired; we lost concentration. Guatemala
is a powerful team but we fought strong”.
Marvin Ulloa coach of Honduras indicated “I agree, the team is
tired and our Opposite player was on the bench due to an ankle
injury at yesterday’s last points. The team couldn’t focus
against Guatemala who has height in blocking and great defense,
the ball never fell. Yesterday and today we faced two teams who
came from a rest day and tomorrow we’ll face Nicaragua who
rested today”. |
