SALTILLO, Coahuila, July 24, 2008.- The
National Team of Dominican Republic
defeated Costa Rica in consecutive sets,
closing the preliminary and advancing to
the semi finals of the NORCECA Women’s
Junior Volleyball Tournament.
In just 58 minutes, the shortest match of
the event, the Dominicans secured their
third straight win by score of 25-9,
25-20, 25-14. They dominated Pool A with
nine sets won and Orly two lost (276-206
in points ratio).
The best scorers of the tournament were
the Caribbeans Jeoselyna Rodríguez (13),
and Marifranchi Rodríguez and Lisvel Eve
Mejía with 10 apiece. For Costa Rica,
Angie Arias had 6.
Enrique Larrazaleta, coach of Dominican
Republic: “Congratulation to the Costa
Ricans, they never were down and gave
their best all the time, but I think the
country has to make an effort to recruit
taller players, that’s their weakness
because technically they are well, only if
they had more height.”
“I think we must play against Puerto Rico
or Canada in the first cross, and the
final must be against my countrywomen of
Cuba.”
“We came with great desire of qualifying,
this is a tall team with good projection
and big production even that on the
playing court only two were born in 1990,
the rest are of ’91, most of them are very
tall and they must make the training
national team very quickly.”
“Our goal is to win the ticket to the 2009
World Championship here in this nation and
for them to have another year of training
and development.”
Julio C. Alfaro, coach of Costa Rica: “Our
opponents form a great team with a good
coach, and we congratulate them, we tried
to do our best, I am happier than
yesterday because they tried harder, in
our previous game we were down, but with
what we have I think we made the attempt
although we recognize they are superior
and we are learning from them with each
day.”
Allison Ramírez, captain of Costa Rica: “I
think it was a pretty game because we
competed, at least in the second, but we
are happy because it was against the first
team of overthere and I feel we did what
we Could, you have to wait the future.”
Niverka Marte, captain of Dominican
Republic: “Costa Rica is a fighting team,
they never let their spirit to go down. We
tried to do our best for each player to
improve even more in the individual
ranking.” |