Nicaragua with three wins after beating Panama

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 27, 2019 - Nicaragua achieved its third victory of the IXV Central American U23 Women’s Championship, by winning 3-0 (25-16, 25-15, 25-20) to still winless Panama, despite giving strong battles.

The Nicaraguan team was better in blocking with 12-5 and service 6-4, and took advantage of the opposing errors 39-21, being overcome in attack 21-18.

Dalia Conto with nine points and María Fernanda Campos with 8 points, were the best in Nicaragua, while for Panama Yileen NG was the best with 11 points.

Claudia Noguera, coach of Nicaragua: "It was an important game for Nicaragua, we needed to win 3-0 to accumulate more points and have options... the two previous victories were 3-2. Some moments there was lack of concentration, but for tomorrow the girls are very animated and working hard mentally to face Costa Rica".

Ismael Ortega, coach of Panama: "As I have been saying, our goal is to get to Panama and start working as a real team, with more preparation time, to concentrate the athletes, to train in a collective, because this is a team sport and that is the goal".

"We have to train more, because it is almost impossible to achieve results against teams with more training... we have human resources, there is a future in this generation, but it is a project in the medium and long term."

Nicaragua is measured against Costa Rica at 6:30 in the afternoon on Friday and Panama has rest.