Senior South American Volleyball Championship, Brazil... Guyana goes down to world 6th ranked Argentina

Senior South American Volleyball Championship, Brazil… Guyana goes down to world 6th ranked Argentina

Oct 02, 2015 Sports

The national men’s volleyball team opened its campaign at the senior South American Volleyball Championship in Brazil against world 6th ranked Argentina and went down in straight sets 25-9, 25-9 and 25-13.
According to reports, the local men gave a good account of themselves as they started off trading shots equally with the world super power in the early stages of each set, before their higher ranked opponent pulled away in the latter periods.
Competing at this level for the first time since the 1970’s, the Guyanese men started off the game looking like seasoned campaigners, taking the first point from Argentina and managing to trade points until the scores were tied 5-all.
However, at that point the Argentines were able to detect the defect in the Guyanese armour and began exploiting their weakness in blocking and receiving. The second set began in identical fashion as the first and again the same weaknesses were expertly exploited by the Argentines.
Taking heart from sporadic shots by Creston Rodney, who appeared to be the leading Guyanese attacker on the night and crafty substitutions by the coach, the Guyanese managed to rally the support of the mostly Brazilian crowd as they fought to a similar scoreline as the first set.
In the third set, Head Coach Levi Nedd decided to make some changes to the starting line-up and opened with Jason Seelochan, who turned out to be a crowd favourite instead of seasoned campaigner, Khemraj Singh.
The stanza took a similar pattern to the first two as again the Guyanese traded shots with Argentina, but again, they were no match for their more experienced counterparts. Occasional brilliance in defence by Vance Harding and renewed life in the attacking through the setting of Seelochan saw the local men dig even deeper than the first two sets and rally to a more respectable scoreline.
The Guyanese now turn their sights to a lower ranked Colombia, who they were scheduled to play yesterday. Nedd commenting on the team’s opening performance intimated that he was fairly satisfied with the team’s display, but expressed that should they be able to maintain that level of play in addition to improving on certain aspects of their game, it is a real possibility that they could pull off a historic upset against the 2013 bronze medalist, now rated 26th in the world.
Guyana plays Uruguay tomorrow at 15:15 hrs, (14:15 hrs local time) in the final preliminary round matchup.

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