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Guantanamo.- Cuba continued its strong performance at the U23 Women\u2019s Pan American Cup, defeating Nicaragua 3-0 (25-18, 25-19, 25-16) at the Domo de la Feria in Le\u00f3n, Guanajuato, to remain undefeated.<\/p>\nGuantanamo.- Cuba continued its strong performance at the U23 Women\u2019s Pan American Cup, defeating Nicaragua 3-0 (25-18, 25-19, 25-16) at the Domo de la Feria in Le\u00f3n, Guanajuato, to remain undefeated.<\/p>\n
Cuba now holds a 2-0 record in Pool B, while Nicaragua falls to 0-2. In the final day of pool play, Cuba will face Mexico, while Nicaragua will take on Canada.<\/p>\n
Claudia Basilia Tarin and team captain Whitney James led the Cuban offense in the first set, keeping their team ahead despite Nicaragua\u2019s tough defense and long rallies in which Mar\u00eda Roa stood out.<\/p>\n
In the second set, the teams remained tied until 6-6, but a solid block by Karen Bird and an attack from Marcela Mart\u00ednez brought Nicaragua within 19-22 before Cuba closed the set.<\/p>\n
Cuba controlled the third set from start to finish, although Nicaragua never stopped fighting defensively.<\/p>\n
The Cuban attack made the difference with 31 points to 18, also leading in blocking (7-4) and service aces (6-3).<\/p>\n
Whitney James and Claudia Tarin were Cuba\u2019s top scorers with 11 and 10 points respectively, while Lianet Garc\u00eda contributed 4 blocks. For Nicaragua, Gilmary Smith scored 6 points.<\/p>\n
Cuban captain Whitney James said: \u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s match that went to five sets, today we tried to consolidate some things we need to face Mexico tomorrow. One of them is our connection with the setters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicaragua\u2019s captain Mar\u00eda Roa commented: \u201cWe looked good, and our mentality was better today. Several of us had the experience of last year\u2019s Cup and we are motivating the new players. We came here to fight and to show we can put on good performances like we did today. We need to be more focused and put in more effort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guantanamo.- Cuba continued its strong performance at the U23 Women\u2019s Pan American Cup, defeating Nicaragua 3-0 (25-18, 25-19, 25-16) at the Domo de la Feria in Le\u00f3n, Guanajuato, to remain undefeated. Cuba now holds a 2-0 record in Pool B, while Nicaragua falls to 0-2. In the final day of pool play, Cuba will face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13563,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions\/13563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}