Tag: 2022 Men's Pan Am Cup

GATINEAU, August 14, 2022 – Osniel Melgarejo of Cuba was named the Most Valuable Player of the Men’s Pan American Cup held in Gatineau, Quebec of Canada won by his team with a victory over host Canada on Sunday.

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Here is the list of awarded players:  

1st best spiker  #2 Cuba – Osniel Lazaro Mergarejo Hernandez

2nd best spiker #5 Chile – Vicente Parraguirre

1st blocker #16 USA – Nyerovwome Omene

2nd blocker #7 Brazil – Thiery Fellipe Oliveira Morais do Nascimento

Best receiver #7 Cuba –Yonder Roman Garcia Alvarez

Best server #18 Cuba- Miguel Angel Lopez Castro

Best digger #21 USA – Mason Briggs

Best setter  #21 Canada – Luke Herr

Best libero #7 Cuba – Yonder Roman Garcia Alvarez

Best scorer #5 Chile – Vicente Parraguirre

Best opposite #12 Cuba – Jesus Herrera Jaime

Most Valuable Player (MVP) #2 Cuba – Osniel Lazaro Mergarejo Hernandez

GATINEAU, August 14, 2022:  Cuba went undefeated and won the 15^th Pan American Cup gold medal today in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

The Cuban team swept home-crowd favourites 3-0 (25-17, 25-17, 25-23) fighting off a late attempt by Canada to extend the match.

Cuba has the advantage in all skills – a strong offense with 39 attack points (compared with 26 by Canada), 7-3 in blocking and 6-3 in service points.

Canada gained 25 points from Cuban errors, compared with 23 Canadian team errors. 

Opposite Jesus Herrera of Cuba topped the score sheet with 15 points and teammates Osniel Hernandez and Miguel Angel Lopez scored 11 apiece.

Mathias Elser was top scorer for Canada with 8 points.

Cuba, a team that also recently earned a spot in next year’s FIVB Volleyball Nations League, wins the tournament and a berth to the 2023 Pan American Games.

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GATINEAU, August 14, 2022:  Cuba went undefeated and won the 15^th Pan American Cup gold medal today in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

The Cuban team swept home-crowd favourites 3-0 (25-17, 25-17, 25-23) fighting off a late attempt by Canada to extend the match.

Cuba has the advantage in all skills – a strong offense with 39 attack points (compared with 26 by Canada), 7-3 in blocking and 6-3 in service points.

Canada gained 25 points from Cuban errors, compared with 23 Canadian team errors. 

Opposite Jesus Herrera of Cuba topped the score sheet with 15 points and teammates Osniel Hernandez and Miguel Angel Lopez scored 11 apiece.

Mathias Elser was top scorer for Canada with 8 points.

Cuba, a team that also recently earned a spot in next year’s FIVB Volleyball Nations League, wins the tournament and a berth to the 2023 Pan American Games.

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GATINEAU, August 14, 2022:  The United States won the bronze match today at the 15th Men’s Pan American Cup at the Centre Slush Puppie arena in Gatineau, Quebec.

Opponent Chile tried to extend the match with strong third set performance, but the U.S. rallied for the 1-3 (16-25, 15-25, 25-22, 21-25) victory and the bronze medal 

“I’m proud of my team and the ability to come back after a really tough match last night (semi-final) against Canada,” said U.S. Head Coach Andy Read. “To respond like that today against a very resilient Chilean team; I’m really happy.”

The U.S. was the better attacking team (56-42) and led in aces (11-5). Both teams had 7 blocking points and made an equal amount of errors at 23.

Opposite Jake Hanes was the U.S. top scorer with 21 points, including 4 aces.  Outside hitter Vicente Parraguirre of Chile led all scorers with 26 points.

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GATINEAU, August 14, 2022:  Puerto Rico defeated Mexico 3-1 (26-24, 25-27, 25-23, 25-19) in today’s 5-6 classification match at the 15^th Pan American Cup at the Slush Puppie Centre in Quebec, Canada.

Puerto Rico finishes fifth and Mexico sixth out of eight teams.

Puerto Rico led in attack points (52-48) and aces (8-6) while Mexico earned more points from their blocking (8-10). Puerto Rico gained 33 points from errors; Mexico picked up 29 from their opponent.

Opposite Pedro Molina (16 pts), Klistan Lawrence (15 pts) and middle Jonathan Rodriguez (13 pts) were top scorers for the winning side.

Outside hitter Josue  Lopez contributed 13 points (10 successful attacks, 2 blocks and an ace) for Mexico.

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GATINEAU, August 14, 2022:  A young Brazilian squad could not hold off a more experienced Dominican side today at the 15^th Pan American Cup held at the Slush Puppie Centre in Quebec, Canada. 

It was the sixth five-set match of the tournament; 2-3 (23-25, 25-22, 17-25, 18-25, 10-15) with the Dominican Republic securing seventh place as winner of this classification final.  

The teams were even on attack points at 58, and Brazil was the better blocking side (12-9). The Dominicans had an impressive 10 ace serves, five from opposite Gerson Ezequiel Toribio, compared to the South Americans with two aces. Errors were almost equal (28-27) with Brazil getting the slight advantage. 

Veteran outside hitter Wilfrido Hernandez led all scoring with 25 points. Brazil’s Maicon dos Santos França added 20 points to the losing side’s total. 

This was the first of four matches in today’s schedule that culminates in the gold medal match between Canada and Cuba. 

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GATINEAU, August 13, 2022: A dramatic semi-final win over USA lands host Canada in the gold-medal match of the 15th Men’s Pan American Cup at the Centre Slush Puppie arena in Gatineau, Quebec.

Canada prevailed in five sets 3-2 (22-25, 21-25, 29-27, 25-23, 15-12) after the U.S. looked in control of the first half of the match.

Canada had a strong start in set three, then USA evened it up at the 11-point mark, but the home crowd-favourites kept fighting and managed to close the third after five set-point opportunities.

The fourth set was back and forth, but finally Canada capitalized on the U.S. errors and looked confident in the tie-break set.

The U.S. led in attack points with 69 (compared with Canada’s 66) and opposite Jake Hanes of Team USA led all scorers with 27 points. The U.S. also led in blocking (8-6).

Canada had eight service points compared to seven for the U.S. and Canada made fewer errors (28-32).

For Canada, Brodie Hofer was lead scorer and contributed 22 points.

Canada will face Cuba in the gold-medal match on Sunday, and the U.S. will play Chile for bronze.

A berth to the Pan Am Games, which will be held in Santiago, Chile in 2023, is at stake at this tournament.

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GATINEAU. August 13, 2022:  Cuba had a decisive 3-0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-21) semi-final performance against Chile today at the Slush Puppie Centre in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada at the 15^th Pan American Cup.

Cuba led in all skills – attacks (45-33), blocks (8-6) and strong serving gave them five aces compared with Chile’s two. Chile lost 17 points to errors compared to Cuba’s 16.

Chilean outside hitter Vicente Parraguirre led all scorers with 20 points.

Team captain Miguel Angel Lopez topped Cuba’s scoresheet with 18 points, including three aces; followed by opposite Jesus Herrera with 15.

Cuba will now play for gold on Sunday and contend for a berth at the 2023 Pan American Games, which will be held in Chile.

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GATINEAU, August 13, 2022:  Dominican Republic was defeated by Mexico 1-3 (14-25, 29-27, 18-25, 15-25) today at the 15^th Pan American Cup at the Slush Puppie Centre in Quebec, Canada.

Mexico earned its way into the fifth-place match and they will meet Puerto Rico at 11:30 am ET on Sunday. Brazil and Dominican Republic play at 9 am ET for places seven and eight.

This afternoon, Mexico led in attack points (53-37) and serves (8-7) and made 10 fewer errors than its opponent. Puerto Rico gained one more blocking point than Mexico (9-8)

Dominican opposite Henry Omar Tapia led scoring with 18 points.

Outside hitter Mauro Isaac Fuentes of Mexico led the winning side with 17 points, followed by teammate Josue De Jesus Lopez with 14 points to his credit.

The schedule continues with semis today and medal matches on Sunday afternoon.

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GATINEAU,  August 13, 2022:  A young Brazilian squad was defeated by Puerto Rico 0-3 (23-25, 22-25, 19-25) today at the 15^th Pan American Cup held at the Slush Puppie Centre in Quebec, Canada.

Puerto Rico will get a chance to play for 5^th place in the tournament tomorrow, and Brazil will play to determine places seven and eight.

Puerto Rico’s more efficient offense was the difference maker in this match: they led by 43-28 in attacking points. Other skills were more even: 4-4 in blocks and 4-4 in service aces. Puerto Rico had slightly more errors than Brazil (28-24).

For Puerto Rico, 19 year-old Klistan Lawrence stood out as top scorer with 21 points. Samuel Carazzai de Morais Neufeld, at 17 years of age, led scoring for the South American side with 13 points.

This was the first of four matches in today’s schedule.

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