Brazil eliminated the Dominican Republic this Friday from the women’s volleyball tournament of the First Youth Pan American Games, defeating it 3-1 (25-17, 24-26, 25-22, 25-9) at the Evangelista Mora Coliseum.
Brazil concluded the preliminary round with an immaculate 3-0 record to lead Group B, while ¨The Princesses¨, one of the medals that the country had for sure, will go to the consolation round to define the occupants of the fifth and sixth place of the joust.
They finished 1-2, as did Puerto Rico and Peru, but the tiebreaker system, the goal average, favored the South Americans.
The Dominicans could not take advantage of the friend foot that the Puerto Ricans had previously put on them, who after falling in the first two games, reacted and beat the Peruvians in the next three.
Only once have the Brazilians and the Dominicans met in this new category. That happened in 2012 in the city of Lima, Peru, in the final of the First U-23 Pan American Cup, and the Quisqueyan team beat it in three sets.
The green-yellow team won all the technical times of the match, a clear sign that they remained in the lead almost all of the time.
Only in the second set and with a 24-21 lead, Brazil lost the lead on the board and the set against the team led by Wagner Pacheco.
A surprising cluster of five points in a row, thanks to the contributions by the tips of Madeline Guillén and Flormarie Colón, as well as a momentary improvement in blocking, allowed the Quisqueyanas to win the set 26-24.
The Brazilians did not take long to take away the moment of the game and regained dominance of the game.
For Brazil, Milena Banks Miranda stood out with 17 points, Diana Duarte Alecrim 15, Mayaras Da Silva 14 and Lorayna Marys Da Silva 12.
Great in the reverse for the tricolor group was the outgoing Guillén, who scored 26 points, Colón added 13.
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