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MEXICO CITY, Mexico, May 21, 2016. –United States beat Chile 3-1
(25-17, 17-25, 25-15, 25-22) at the XI Men’s Pan American Cup
opening match on Saturday at Olympic Gymnasium Juan de la
Barrera in Mexico City.
United States dominated Chile leading 44-39 in spikes, 12-9 in
blocking and 8-2 in service points. The winners also scored on
29 errors from Chile while committing 28.
Torey Defalco led USA with 15 points, followed by Gregory Petty
with 13 points, Joshua Taylor with 12 and Kristopher Johnson
with 10 points. Vicente Parraguirre topped with 16 points, the
only one with double digits on the Chilean side.
Captain Carson Clark of United States spoke about his first
impressions about his team “we haven’t played together for very
long so I was happy the way we came back, we had difficulties in
set two, which we weren’t very happy about. We tried to get
everybody out there as much as possible. Chile is very good
team, but in this tournament we really don’t know a lot of
players and you have to come out and respect everybody”.
United States Coach Ron Larsen indicated “for our first match I
am pleased with the effort we put forth. The team is young so we
make mistakes, unforced balls but also Chile did too. For us it
was a really good task, Chile battled really hard and the last
game could have gone either way. Even if we got better as the
match developed, we have to keep improving”.
Argentinian Daniel Najamkin coach for Chile said “the team
performed as expected, USA’s experience was evident, especially
in the fourth set, where we committed too many errors from point
twenty forward. These mistakes should be solved to face what’s
coming ahead if we want to win”. |
