Puerto Ricans Figueroa and Rivera stood out in Nanjing

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Puerto Ricans Sergio Figueroa and Danny Rivera were the best NORCECA boys’ team that took part of the beach volleyball tournament at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.

Figueroa and Rivera reached the quarterfinals round where they lost a close match 2-1 (21-14, 14-21, 15-11) to Venezuela’s Gregorio -Tigrito- Gomez and Rolando Hernández.

The Puerto Rican pair had won their match in the Round of 16 over Norway’s Mol and Berntsen 2-1 (21-23, 21-18, 15-10).

Canadians Richard and MacNeil lost in the Round of 16 against eventual champions Stoyanovskiy and Yarzutkin of Russia 2-0 (21-15, 21-16).

Richard and MacNeil won their match in the Round of 24 by defeating La Pioneers and Osu Youth of Ghana, 2-0 (21-14, 21-24).

Richard and DeFalco of United States, Flores and Alvarez of Guatemala, Shavar and Hutchinson of Jamaica and Delshun and Fraser of St Vincent and Grenadines, didn’t advance from the pool play.