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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, June 9, 2015 - The XV Central
American BVB Championship will be running from June 12-14 at
Puerto Cortes beach in Honduras, with the best volleyball
players from the AFECAVOL zone.
Eleven female teams and twelve men teams have registered for the
double gender competition, battling in a preliminary pool-play
phase where the top two of each pool and the two best third
placed will advance to the next round.
Costa Rica is both the defending women and men champions and
also the top all-time winners with nine crowns in both genders.
Costa Rican Natalia Alfaro, will be seeking to tie the eight
tittles achieved by her former partner and current coach Ingrid
Morales, the biggest beach volleyball star of the zone. Alfaro
arrives as favorite along with Karen Cope looking for their
second consecutive title as a team.
In the men’s division, Bryan Monge has won the nine titles for
Costa Rica and will couple up with Richard Smith as team 2. The
reigning champion, Diego Alpizar, will play with Julio Alvarez.
Pools in the women’s division are POOL A: HON1, PAN,
CRC2; POOL B: CRC1, NCA1, GUA2, ESA2; POOL C:
GUA1, ESA1, HON2, NCA2. The men’s will play divided in POOL D:
HON1, PAN, BIZ, GUA2; POOL E: CRC1, NCA1, HON2, ESA2;
POOL F: GUA1, ESA1, CRC2, NCA2.
The official registration and schedule will be approved on
Thursday June 11th and competition gets underway from
Friday 12th thru Sunday 14th.
Women’s teams:
CRC 1
Karen Cope/Natalia Alfaro CRC 2 Eugenia Ramirez/Yuliana
González GUA 1 Maria José Orellana/Maria André Orellana
GUA 2 Blanca Recinos/Ada Patricia Villalobos, ESA 1
Ivonne Soler de Tobar/Laura Molina ESA 2 Kathya
Vasquez/Maria Fernanda Vargas, HON 1 Gina Flores/Martha
Euceda HON 2 Christianne Etches/Jarisa Hynds, NCA 1
Elia Machado/Lolette Rodríguez NCA 2 Swan Mendoza/Claudia
Machado, PAN Kihary Nicoll Pérez/Hashkyn Cuero.
Men’s teams:
BIZ
Baydr Sajia/ Ronnie Sosa, CRC 1 Diego Alpízar/Julio
Alvarez CRC 2 Bryan Monje/Richard Smith, GUA 1
Julio Recinos/Luis Garcia, GUA 2 Andy Leonardo/Erick
Garrido, ESA 1 Carlos Escobar/David Vargas, ESA 2
Franklin Flores/Armando Guatemala, HON 1 Mercuri
Miller/Wilfredo Vega, HON 2 Luis Baide/Manuel Serrano,
NCA 1 Rubén Mora/Dany Alvarado, NCA 2 Gerald Umaña/Gerson
Contreras), PAN Carlos Enrique Sanjur/Jasón Omar
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