Brazil’s Sada Cruzeiro beat La Romana

BETIM, Brazil, October 15, 2013 – Brazil’s Sada Cruzeiro roared past Deportivo La Romana of Dominican Republic in straight sets (25-20, 25-22, 25-16) in the third and last contest of opening day of FIVB Men’s Club World Championship played in front of 5,599 spectators on Tuesday.

Wallace Sosa and Yoandy Leal led the winners with 14 and 11 points, respectively, while Isaac Santos chipped in with 10 tallies.

Henry Tapia and Elvis Contreras were the best scorers for Deportivo La Romana with 10 and 7 points, respectively.

Sada Cruzeiro led in the blocking category 7-2 and also in aces 5-1. Both teams gave away a lot of points, especially with missed serves. Sada Cruzeiro made 26 unforced errors compared to 22 by the defeated club. 

In the other matches of Tuesday, Trentino Diatec of Italy defeated Iran’s Kal-Kaleh 3-1 (24-26, 25-19, 25-19, 26-24) and Argentina’s UPCN edged Japan’s Panasonic Phanters 3-1 (20-25, 25-23, 25-14, 25-23).

Tolinson Aquino, captain of Deportivo La Romana: Congratulations to Sada Cruzeiro, a team with very high level. We went out to battle but made too many errors with our serves. But also you must give the deserved credit to the opponent and their great players.

Osiel Vazquez, coach of Deportivo La Romana: It was very hard for us to start playing against the home team. All the Brazilian teams are strong. We couldn’t stop their offense down the middle but in general terms I am satisfied despite many mistakes with our serves. The boys did a good performance.