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MONTELIMAR, Nicaragua, October 30, 2009 – The
teams of
Puerto Rico, United States, Mexico and Canada
had the best results in the first day of action
at the Nicaragua Tournament, the last leg of the
2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit.
The Puerto Rican pair of Yarleen Santiago and
Darian Acevedo won their two matches of the day
In the first one they beat Belize (Cadle-
Blanco) 21-4, 21-5 and then defeated the duo of
Costa Rica (Alfaro-Morales) 21-19, 21-10.
The teams of United States, Canada and Mexico
will go for a semifinal spot after winning their
only match of the day. The Americans
(Lowe-Smith) defeated the Dominican Republic
(Rosario-Fabián) by score of 21-10, 16-21,
15-9.
Canada (Diotte-Dansereu) had a 22-20, 21-13
victory over Guatemala (Ramírez – Bolaños) and
the Mexicans (Revueltas-Virgen) had to battle
to prevail against El Salvador (Soler-Molina)
22-20, 21-13.
The Satuday action starts at 9:00 a,.m. local
time and will decide the four semi finalists of
the tournament.
Friday’s results: PUR- BLZ (21-4,21-5); DOM-NCA
2 (21-11, 21-12); CAN-GUA (22-20, 21-13); ESA –
NCA 1 (21-19, 21-7); PUR – CRC (21-19, 21-10);
USA-DOM (21-10, 16-21, 15-9); MEX – ESA (22-20,
21-13).
In the women’s side 11 pairs are taking part.
These are: Belice
(Barbara Cadle-Thara Blanco); Costa Rica (Ingrid
Morales-Natalia Alfaro); United States (Heather
Lowe-Saralyn Smith); Guatemala (Stefany
Bolaños-Anna Ramírez); Canada (France Diotte-Eve
Marie Dansereu); El Salvador (Ivonne Soler-Laura
Molina); Puerto Rico (Yarleen Santiago-Darian
Acevedo); Dominican Repúblic (Ginette
Rosario-Ana Fabian); Mexico (Vanessa
Virgen-Martha Revueltas); Nicaragua 1 (Lolette
Rodríguez-Heydi Rostran) and Nicaragua 2 (Elia
Torres-Karen López).
The tournaments of the 2009 Circuit started the
continental qualifying process to the Olympic
Games of 2012 in London and also to the XXI
Central American and Caribbean Games of 2010 in
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
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