Panama wins first victory with overwhelming serves

BELIZE CITY, Belize, July 17, 2023.- Panama earned their first victory beating Honduras 3-0 (25-16, 25-23, 25-11) in the second match of day two at the XIV AFECAVOL Women’s U19 Central American Championship, with an overwhelming 17-3 advantage in serves.

Panama showed a whole different face from their loss on the first day of competition, they won solidly against a resilient Honduras, with superiority in serves, reaching a 14 point difference (17-3).

Panama held a huge advantage to dominate the first set 25-16. In the second set each point was highly contested by both teams, Panama didn’t allow Honduras who battled to win, finishing with a close 25-23 for Panama.

In the third set, Panama was superior and with a 14 point difference they closed 25-11.

In addition to dominating in serves, Panama held a 28-23 advantage in attacks and 6-3 in blocks. Panama scored 24 and Honduras 21 points on opponent errors.

The best scorers were the Panamanians, team captain Ekaterina Ureña and Krisleen González with 9 points each and for Honduras, team captain Marynur Martínez and Isabella García scored 6 points each.

On Tuesday 18, Honduras will face Costa Rica at 5:00pm and Panama will play against Nicaragua at

2:30pm.

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Ekaterina Ureña, captain of Panama: “We played very well today, always together, we have a good defense, and each one gives their best as a team. Yesterday we lost, but that didn’t mean we were going to give up, Panama has much to show”.

Marynur Martínez, captain of Honduras: “This was a match we wanted to win, yesterday we had a bad match with El Salvador, it wasn’t the best and today we wanted the victory, but we will go forward, we still have a little more, it’s not the last so we will go on thinking about each match and thinking about the future”.