GATINEAU, CANADA. August 20, 2024: Canada’s next generation of talent defeated Puerto Rico today at the Men’s Final 6 in Gatineau, Quebec, at the Slush Puppie Centre arena.
The final score was 3-0 (25-19, 25-21, 25-19).
Canada dominated in attack points (47-26), held a slight advantage in blocking (7-6), and serves were also in Canada’s favor 4-0. Canada, however, made more errors 27-17.
Outside hitter Isaac Heslinga led scoring for Canada with 17 points, followed by teammate Skyler Varga with 14 points.
Klistan Lawrence Vidal of Puerto Rico led his team with 14 points.
Canada’s head coach Glenn Hoag said: “We have a lot of things to work on as it’s the first official match with this group. We’ve only been practicing, so I think the guys were a bit nervous and really wanted to do well. The video of this match will be helpful – we can look at different aspects of the game. There are certain things that we did ok – we did well on receive and serving was ok. But we were rushing things a bit, so we needed to calm things down. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied.”
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