SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 16, 2024.- Dominican Republic remained undefeated on the third day of competition by beating Guatemala 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 25-22) in the XVII Pan American Men’s Volleyball Cup that takes place in the Volleyball Pavilion of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center.
The Dominicans dominated everything 49-34 in attacks, 5-4 in blocks and 4-3 in serves.
Henry Tapia was the top scorer for the Dominican Republic with 23 points accompanied by Hector Cruz, who scored 13. For Guatemala, Yeferson Zavala and Andy Blanco scored 10 points each.
Henry Tapia, captain of the Dominican Republic: Today’s game was not an easy game, but we achieved the objective we were looking for, which was to maintain the reception as well as the attack and blocking, then with those three objectives we executed the action and achieved the result 3-0.
Carlos López, captain of Guatemala: Well, I think we improved a little compared to yesterday’s game, we knew it was a difficult game, the Dominican Republic has a great team, we knew they were at home and they did things well, we made several mistakes that cost us a lot because the scoreboard opened up a lot, but I think the team’s attitude was different in this match.
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