MANAGUA, Nicaragua, December 11, 2015 – Honduras (3-2) rolled
past Panama 3-0 (25-20, 25-9, 25-19) at the XVI Women’s U20
Central American Championship to reach 14 points after five
matches.
Cecille Johnson scored 22 points to lead the Honduran attack
while Nataly Perez finished with 7. For Panama, the best was
Captain Yileen Ng with 8 points.
Honduras was the best team in attacks 31-21 and in serves 13-4.
Panama topped in blocking 4-2 but made more errors than their
opponents 29-19.
Ruth Aguilar, Captain of Honduras: “It was a good game, we had
some little problems with our defense but solved out them in
time to get the win which was the objective. We go with all our
strength against El Salvador and to win we need attitude over
talent.”
Yileen Ng, Captain of Panama: “I think we played better today,
the reception was better and had better attacks. Sometimes we
lowered the enthusiasm, but then raised the attitude and desire
to battle. We are not going to quit until the last match and we
will focus on winning.”. |