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China overcomes Cuba to win Beilun Cup women's volleyball invitational

www.chinanews.cn 2007-06-02 16:50:49

(Source: Xinhua)

China wrapped up its Beilun Cup four-nation women's volleyball tournament
campaign with a five-set victory over Cuba on Friday, June 1, 2007.
[Photo: Xinhua]

June 2 - China wrapped up its Beilun Cup four-nation women's volleyball
tournament campaign on Friday with a five-set victory over Cuba.
The Chinese team, who went down in five set to Cuba last week in another
international tournament also held in China, took sweet revenge on their
arch rivals by prevailing 25-18, 15-25, 18-25, 25-16, 15-11 in one hour
38 minutes.
China, who had earlier crushed the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands
in straight sets, kept a perfect sheet. Cuba was the runner-up with a 2-1
win-loss record. The Dominican Republic (1-2) was third and the
Netherlands (0-3) finished fourth.
Rolled on by sizzling spikes from Sun Xiaoqing and Li Juan, a fired-up
China dominated the first set, but the Cubans were unstoppable in the
following two sets as their powerful serving held China at bay.
Head coach Chen Zhonghe made a change to the Chinese line-up at the start
of the fourth set, replacing Sun with Yang Hao. The change turned out
effective as China built up a fluid attacking rhythm which Brazil could
not stem. On their second set point at 24-16, Zhou Suhong made no mistake
with a kill to tie the score 2-2.
Teams traded points in the opening stages of the decider. When both sides
were locked at 5-5, China won five points successively to surge ahead.
Leading at 14-8, however, China could only clinch the winner on its
fourth match point when Ramirez Echevarria Daimi' serve fell into the net.
Li Juan top socred for China with 16 points, from 13 spikes and three
blocks. Captain Zhou Suhong added 12 points and Sun Xiaoqing had 7 points.
Cuba's leading scorer was Yumilka Ruiz Luaces, who smashed 17 kills in
her 18-point haul.
After losing their first two games to Cuba and China, the Dominicans
regained a bit of confidence with a 25-21, 20-25, 22-25, 25-17, 17-15
victory over the Netherlands in the day's other game.

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