The Dominican women’s volleyball team traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to continue its participation in the FIVB Volleyball Nations League. The team arrived in Thailand having defeated Team USA.
The sweet victory over team USA took place on 30 May 2019 in Conegliano, Italy. The US and the DR had met in 18 world level championships, and the USA had won 16 and the DR only two before this historic match. In the previous VNL in 2018, the USA defeated the DR in straight sets.
As reported, with a massive 17-3 run and a 7-0 block advantage, the Dominican team took the first set of that game with ease. The US would win the second set but then dropped the third to head to a must-win fourth set. Team USA would win the fourth set to force a tiebreaker. But it would be team Dominican Republic that claimed the victory, 3-2 (25-10, 16-25, 25-19, 19-25, 15-11). The USA had been undefeated in the tournament until playing the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican women’s volleyball team (FIVB ranked 10th) now will play Turkey (12th), Thailand (14th) and Bulgaria (16th) from 4-6 June 2019 in the third preliminary round of the 16-team FIVB Volleyball Nations League championship in Bangkok, Thailand.
Turkey enters into the game with 6 wins and five defeats. In the FIVB VNL, the DR has 3 wins and 3 losses. But the Dominican team has behind its wins to the USA (ranked 3rd), Russia (ranked 5th) and Brazil (ranked 4th). In previous rounds, the Dominican team lost to top-ranked China (2nd), Italy (8th), Serbia (1st) in games that ended 3-1.
The win against USA has pushed the DR up from 11th to 9th place. China and the top five teams from the preliminary round of 16 teams will reach the finals to be held in China from 3-7 July with the winner receiving US$1 million.
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3 June 2019