USA book ticket to semifinals of Pan Am Cup

PACHUCA, Mexico, June 14, 2014 – United States brushed aside Costa Rica in straight sets (25-13, 25-9, 25-11) to conclude undefeated in Pool B and booking a direct ticket to the semifinals of the XIII Women’s Volleyball Pan American Cup.

The Costa Ricans couldn’t do many things against the Americans, whose opposite resulted in the best scorer of the match with 17 points followed by Chloe Ferrari, who charted nine. Paola Ramirez had seven points for Costa Rica.

It was the fourth victory in a row for the USA team that won also in straight sets over Colombia, Argentina and Puerto Rico and now they move to the Mexican capital to play the medal contenders and to decide the top six places.

Jamie Morrison, Coach of United States: “With this being our last game in Pachuca we want to express our appreciation for the hospitality. In this part of the tournament I thinj we have been improving situations and achieving our goals.”

Carli Lloyd, the USA Captain commented “we are proud with the way we have played as we intend to improve even more in some aspects as we have been doing. Our compliments to Costa Rica for the effort they did today.”

Horacio Bastit, Coach of Costa Rica: “It is always a pleasure play against USA. They play with intensity and seriousness. They represent an example. Maybe they are not the best technically but tactically they adjust at the end of the game to get the result. We couldn’t accomplish our goals of reaching at least half of the points.”

Mijail Hines, Player of Costa Rica: “We played against an opponent with experience and velocity as United States, even more with our team missing two players which was showed in the final score.”