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BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, October 16, 2009 –
Dominican Republic will play with Mexico for the
fifth place of the NORCECA Men’s Continental
Championship after scoring a 25-19, 25-18, 25-22
victory over Panama on Friday at Ruben Rodriguez
Coliseum.
Jose Cáceres led Dominican Republic with 24
points and Domingo Avila charted 10 points for
Panama. The Dominicans had a 8-2 advantage in
the blocking department.
“Today many of our younger players saw action as
they need to get exposed to the international
competition,” said Dominican captain Victor
Batista. “Tomorrow we are going hard against
Mexico looking to avenge the loss in five sets
against them during the last qualifying
tournament to the World Championship.”
“I think the experience of playing against great
teams with big attackers like it was today will
help us to prepare better for the match against
Barbados,” said Ricardo Brown, the captain of
Panama.
“I agree with our captain,” said Jacinto
Campechano, the Dominican coach. “The match
against Mexico doesn’t have the importance of
the last one, but we want to win badly.”
“The players of Barbados are very good attackers
but their defense, especially the reception is
not good,” said José Remón, the coach of Panama.
“We have to take advantage of it”.
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