Havana, July 14 (JIT).- The Cuban team swept their similar team from Canada and earned their third straight win at the Men’s Volleyball Norceca Final Six Pan American Cup in Nayarit 2022, based in the Mexican city of Tepic.

The match ended in just over an hour with partials of 25-17, 25-18 and 25-21, and a superiority for the West Indians in attack (34-27), against (4-2) and serve (6-2). , although they made more mistakes than the northerners (31-25).

Osniel Mergarejo, who took the starting spot after his Tuesday performance against the United States, replacing Marlon Yant from the third to the fifth set, was the top scorer with 12 points, all from kills.

He was also escorted by corner player Miguel Ángel López (10/7-1-2), central defender Robertlandy Simón (8/6-2-0); another who made his debut as a starter, the opposite of Miguel Ángel Sánchez (7/4-1-2); central defender Roamy Alonso (4/3-0-1) and setter Adrián Goide (3/2-0-1).

The Cubans’ rivals entered the field preceded by victories over the United States and Mexico, but this time they couldn’t do much.

It wasn’t until the third set that they managed to tie it 12-12, but five straight Caribbean goals stopped their inspiration and they could never catch up again. His witness, Fynnian McCarthy, did not reach double figures (9/8-1-0).

The Cubans, who began their string of victories against the Dominicans (3-0) and the Americans (3-2), will face this Thursday the cast of Puerto Rico (8 p.m.), which, like Canada, has two successes and a setback after his stumble this Wednesday against the United States (1-3).

Mergarejo commented on the competition’s official website that “we are taking the rhythm of the tournament to add points and generate more confidence for the second important event we have this season (challenger in South Korea), because we are a team who for two years we played together.”

He added that “Canada is a team that plays well tactically, but we are characterized by power in service and attack. We had to use our strength to overcome it.”

Technical director Nicolás Vives said that “we are all happy, we have picked up the pace little by little since we have only been training together for a short time”. He described the game as good “to achieve the set objective, but recognized that” we still have to serve better, block better; you have to work on certain difficulties, the important thing is victory”.

Canadian Fynnian McCarthy said that “for us it’s a question of mentality, we were paralyzed from the service line and we weren’t aggressive, we were passive and we tried to put the ball in and not to score in putting pressure. A change of mentality would definitely help, we can’t expect to win by missing so many serves.”