St. Lucia beats St. Maarten in straight to remain undefeated

ST JOHNS, Antigua, August 18, 2018 – St. Lucia poured in another sterling performance in the process of defending their ECVA title, this time defeating St. Maarten in straight sets to keep a perfect record to date in the ECVA Senior Female competition

St. Lucia was hardly pushed and stayed in control throughout the set eventually wining 25-18 25 - 18 and 25 -20. St. Maarten on the other showed marked improvement play but it wasn’t enough to unsettled the St. Lucians

The improvement of the St. Maarten team was noticed by their coach – Dimitri Beauperthuy.

“I told my girls that this is the best game that we have played for the tournament so far. It is unfortunate that we did not win but the major lesson learnt is that we now that we can compete with the best teams in this competition. This sets us in good stead for the quarterfinals that we have to play later, so in general I am positive going forward.

Coach Challery of St. Lucia had a pensive look on his face. “Things are going as planned so far. We are happy with the win and also in short order so we can get some additional rest. We changed a few things from the last time and that seemed to work a little better as used one of our outside players in the opposite position and I like what I saw there. The focus  shifts  to the semifinal but the attitude will remain the same, whoever qualifies to play against us, we will be ready with our “A” game

For coach Challery, Outside Hitter Kerin Neptune and Middle Blocker Yosherbel led the scoring with 13 points each. Ace player Lisa Casimie also chipped in with 10.

On the losing side no one had double figures in points. Akilah Meulens led six other scorers with 6 points.

The team scoresheet was a bit lopsided in most categories. St. Lucia dominated the Spike column with 31 to 12. They also came out on top in blocks 6 -3 and had 11 aces to 4.Hoever St. Lucia gave up 37 errors and earns points only 27 times.

The quarterfinals are now set with St. Kitts/Nevis playing against Grenada and Antigua/Barbuda versus St. Maarten. The winners go forward to meet St. Lucia and St. Martin in the semis.