Dominican Republic becomes the first classified team for the gold medal match

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, México.— Dominican Republic became the first classified team to the Final Four match for the gold medal after defeating  Argentina in straight sets (25-23, 25-12, 25-19).

Both teams played a very tight first set, but even though some mistakes the dominicans could define it, while in the second achieved a great advantage, and showed great physical resistance.

Gina Altagracia Mambrú registered 17 tallies, while Dahiana Burgos ended with 15 for the Dominican team. For Argentina Julia Benet recorded 11 and Lucia Fresco 8.

“We finished very tired, specially after the first two sets, and in the last one we were out of gas, this match was as intense as the one against Peru”, said argentinan captain Antonela Curatola.

“Except for the first set, we’ve had our best match of the tournament, very  physical but we finished strong”, stated Karla Echenique, captain of the Dominican Republic.

For Horacio Bastit the key was also a physical issue. “We’ve got the tactical and the technical level and preparation, but we are not yet in the right condition to resist more than one set, if we had it we are sure that we could play more than four sets”.

“Fortunatelly we won and I am very happy to classify to the finals, it is important to reach them and I am also glad because we played with a better and higher level, correcting all the mistakes we made in the first match”, Dominican coach Marcos Kwiek concluded.