HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 18 (acn) Cuba defeated Puerto Rico on the first day of the 3rd U-18 Women's Pan American Volleyball Cup, which runs until March 22 at the Sports City Coliseum in Havana, where today they will face Chile.
Cuba won 3-1 (25-18, 25-12, 18-25 and 25-18) with offensive highlight by Diaris Perez, who scored 13 points, Haeidy Casanova (11), Kitania Medina (11) and Gretell Moreno (10), while Dariana Hollingsworth (14) shone by the visitors.
After completion of the game, Tomás Fernández, Cuban head coach, said that this match means a lot. We took the first step and we took out the spine of last year, when Puerto Rico beat us in the U20 Cup.
We do not think the other matches to be easy, but my team has potential. They were very concerned about attacking and had some deficiencies when defending, he added.
In the other match of group B, Chile defeated 3-0 (25-11, 25-11 and 25-6) Costa Rica, while in poole A, Peru and the Dominican Republic beat 3-0 Argentina (25-19, 25-22 and 26-24) and Mexico (25-21, 25-13 and 25-16), respectively.
Today's program also includes the games: Costa Rica-Puerto Rico, Mexico-Argentina and Peru-Dominican Republic.
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