Men’s semi finals are ready for NORCECA Beach in El Salvador
USA, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and El Salvador 1 advanced to the men’s semi finals of the 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at El Salvador.
Puerto Rico will be playing against Costa Rica, while the USA team will be pitted with host El Salvador 1 on Sunday.
The Americans (Ed Ratledge-David Fischer) and the Puerto Ricans (Orlando Irrizarry-Roberto Rodriguez) entered the final-four round through the winners’ bracket, while the other two teams benefited from the double-elimination system.
Ratledge-Fischer defeated El Salvador 1 (Geovany Medrano-Rafael Vargas) 21-15, 21-18 and then crushed Dominican Republic (Yewddys Perez-Charlin Vargas) 21-9, 21-13.
In the first match of Saturday, Irrizarry-Rodriguez beat Honduras (Luis Baide-Walter Sanchez) 21-17, 21-15 and followed with an easy triumph against Guatemala 1 (Jorge Bolanos-Erick Garrido) 21-11, 21-15.
Costa Ricans (Andres Lopez-Jose Suarez) recovered from losing their opening match 18-21, 16-21 to Guatemala 1, winning consecutive games over Honduras 28-30, 25-23, 15-8 and Dominican Republic 21-16, 21-19.
Salvadorians Medrano-Vargas recovered from an initial loss to USA and went on to beat Nicaragua (Winston Calderon-Francisco Castro) 21-18, 21-19 before defeating Guatemala 1 in three sets by score of 21-18, 19-21, 15-9.
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