Honduras defeats El Salvador to remain unbeaten

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, December 7, 2014 - Hosts Honduras defeated El Salvador in straight sets 25-15, 25-23, 25-15 to remain unbeaten at the XVIII Men’s Central American Cup at Jorge Galeano Gymnasium in Tegucigalpa.

The home team had complications in a second thrilling and well battled set, with El Salvador taking the lead; but Honduras dominated El Salvador with strong offensive and defensive line over the net with huge advantage of 46-20 in kills and 11-5 in blocking.

Honduras has a perfect record of 3-0 and fifteen points to lead the competition, and El Salvador remains win-less 0-2.

Outside hitter Evans Torres topped Honduras with 17 points, all in kills, opposite player Jorge Medina scored 15 points and middle blocker Wilfredo Lopez scored 11 points. El Salvador had in Francisco Hernandez their leading scorer with 8 points.

“We’re glad that things are turning out as planned, without extending the matches and trying not to exceed our efforts to reach our next performances more relaxed. We know that our next adversaries are difficult, but I trust my team and our preparation, we’ll have to study their strengths and flaws to establish our strategy,” said Captain Evans Torres.

El Salvador’s captain Francisco Hernandez explained: “Like in other occasions, our lack of concentration cost us the match, it wasn’t’ easy facing the home team, which made it more difficult to uphold our poise. We always have the desire of winning and to make a good performance, we have to correct details for better results”.