SAN SALVADOR, July 4, 2008.- Dominican Republic defeated El Salvador 3-0 and will play for the fifth position in the U-21 Norceca Men’s Continental Championship.

The sets concluded 25-19, 25-8, 25-16 with attacker Pedro Garcia scoring 24 points continuing as the leader of the event with 108.

After a first set where teams had an adequate battle, the first stop of the second set found Dominican Republic leading 8-6, so starting from that point they dominated 17-2.

“Maybe a little bit late our best game finally came, I kn ow we can do much better, but we are ready to battle for the fifth place,” said Jacinto Campechano, the Dominican coach.

“We always can get good things out of these events, even when the results don’t come in your way. Today I had the chance to work with some of my younger players,” he added.

“Today we were better, We lacked scrimmage matches and it is now when we start to get the rhythm, but anyway we are going to go out to play hard for the fifth place,” said setter and captain Lorenzo Santos, who was the leader among the setters entering last night match.

Raul Trujillo was the best scorer for El Salvador with 6 points.