With a rain of attacks, Canada beats the United States in the Men's Pan American Cup

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 16, 2024.- The defending champions Canada overcame the United States in a hard-fought match that went to a maximum of five sets with a score of 3-2 (19-25, 25-20, 25 -27, 25-23, 15-9) to put their record at (2-0) in this XVII version of the Men's Pan American Volleyball Cup.

Canada took the honors in attacks 62-52, in blocks 9-4 and in serves 6-4.

Canada captain Jesse Elser was the top scorer with 21 points, followed by Isaac Heslinga and Jackson Howe with 17 each. For the Americans, Michael Marshman was the best with 15 points accompanied by Gabriel García who added 13.

Isaac Heslinga, player from Canada: I think we played with the basic fundamentals, the plan was to retain strong serves and work well on serves and offense. For the next matches we have to work on some points on our central line but for all rest of us are fine.

Michael Marshman, United States player: It was a classic game between Canada and the United States which are usually very battled on both sides, today I think we came up a little short but I give all the credit to Canada, they made good adjustments during the game and that gave them this victory.