Puerto Rico defeats Colombia and advances to the Semifinals of the Men's Pan American Cup

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 19, 2024.- The Puerto Rican team defeated Colombia in their Quarterfinal match with a score of 3-0 (26-24, 25-13, 25-20) to place themselves in the Semifinals of the XVII Pan American Men's Volleyball Cup at the National Volleyball Pavilion of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center.

Puerto Rico dominated in attacks 38-32, in blocks 7-6 and in serves 8-4.

Klistan Lawrence was the top scorer for the Puerto Ricans with 17 points, followed by Jonathan Rodríguez with 11 and Kevin López who added 7. For Colombia Andrés Piza scored 11 points and Daniel Aponza added another 9.

Klistan Lawrence, player from Puerto Rico: It was a very important match for us since a place in the Semifinals was at stake and it was against Colombia a team with a high level of competition. At first it was difficult for us to pick up the pace due to the pressure we had but In the following sets we managed to get together and obtain the victory.

Andrés Piza, player from Colombia: I think that the result of today's game was not as we expected, as we would have wanted, Puerto Rico showed itself to be a more fluid and much more solid team today, but there is nothing to raise our head, I think The team is doing things very well and now we must finish the event properly.