Puerto Rico closes preliminary round with victory against Mexico

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 18, 2024.- The Puerto Rico team defeated the Mexican team in three straight sets with a score of 3-0 (25-17, 25-22, 25-16), in the Continuation of the Men's Pan American Volleyball Cup in the “Ricardo Arias” Volleyball Pavilion.

Both teams finished the preliminary round with a record of one win and three losses.

In today's match Puerto Rico was superior in attacks 33-29, in blocks 7-5 and in serves 6-1.

Klistan Lawrence was the most outstanding offensive player for the Puerto Ricans with 10 points, helped by Omar Hoyos and Pedro Molina who added 8 each. For Mexico Mauro Fuentes scored 10, while Franky Milantony and Brandon López had 8 and 5 respectively.

Alberto Torres, coach of Puerto Rico: We have grown a lot in this tournament, we have a young group, we knew it was going to be a tough tournament for us but today the boys went out to compete knowing that we were against the wall and that we had to win and we managed obtain the result we were looking for.

Carlos Schwanke, coach of Mexico: Today our team's performance was not good, we made many mistakes and it is impossible to play a game like today against Puerto Rico committing all those fouls, so we caused the result of the game ourselves.