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 Mexico
secures a spot in 2011 FIVB Girls World
Championship
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, May 1, 2010 – Mexico
advanced to the gold medal match of NORCECA
Girls’ Youth Continental Championship following
a victory over Dominican Republic 21-25, 25-15,
25-14, 25-20 on Saturday.
The win secures the Mexicans of a berth in the
2011 FIVB Girls’ Youth World Championship in
Turkey while they are still in contention for
the one ticket at stake to the inaugural Youth
Olympic Games in Singapore next August.
The Mexican side recovered from a shaky first
set and established consistent serves which
provoked many receiving errors by the
Dominicans.
Samantha Bricio carried most of the load of the
winning offense compiling 37 points while
Valeria Hernandez and Gabriela Zazueta added 11
and 10 respectively. Dominican Elizabeth
Martinez topped her team with 11 tallies and
Pamela Soriano and Nairobi Agramonte each
charted 10 points.
“We are so happy by achieving the goal of
advancing to the World Championship,” said
Alicia Castro, the captain of Mexico. “We
started a little bit tense, but then recovered
and played as a team.”
“After the first set we made some adjustments in
our formation and it paid the fruits,” said
Mexican coach Jose Bernal. “We have achieved our
main goal since we arrived here and that was to
play the finals.”
“We had problems with the reception in the
second and third sets and the setter couldn’t do
a good job,” said Dominican assistant coach Juan
Capellan. “You have to give credit to the
Mexican floating serve which was very
consistent.”
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