United States defeats Mexico in straight sets

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, August 22, 2023.- After a hard-fought first set, the United States made adjustments to win the next two comfortably and thus beat Mexico 3-0 (25-21, 25-9, 25- 13) on the third day of competitions of the NORCECA Final Six Women's Volleyball Pan American Cup.

The United States offense was led by Taylor Mims and Logan Eggleston with 15 points each followed by Brooke Nuneviller who contributed 11. For Mexico the best were María Rodríguez with 11 points and Karen Rivera with 9.

The United States remains undefeated in the event at 3-0, while Mexico's loss saw their record drop to 1-2.

Brad Rostratter, United States coach: We played with the fundamentals and tactically everything went well, Mexico also played well, they battled with everything they had but this is just one game I hope they continue to improve.

Nicola Negro, Coach of Mexico: We had a good first set against the United States but at the beginning of the second set we had technical difficulties, we left a lot of balls in the net there we lost control and obviously the United States opened the scoring so we must continue working to improve those failures.