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BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, September 23, 2009 –
Mexico defeated Costa Rica 3-1 (28-26, 23-25,
25-19, 25-19) to even its record at 1-1 in Pool
B of the NORCECA Women’s Continental
Championship. The losers dropped to 0-2 mark.
Mexican Cecilia Rios led her side with 21 points
and Karla Sainz added 14. Grecia Duran chipped
in 9 points. Costa Rican Verania Willis had a
match-high 26 points and Karen Cope and Angela
Willis recorded 15 and 13 respectively.
“We came to play really focused in order to give
our best effort playing against one team which
have had success against us lately,” said Samuel
Cibrian, the Mexican coach.
“We don’t want to take anything from Mexico but
we made many errors in our reception and they
took advantage of our mistakes,” said Verania
Willis, the Captain of Costa Rica.
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