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GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, February 7, 2010 –
Corozal claimed their second consecutive title
and ninth overall in the Puerto Rican Men’s
Superior League by defeating Guaynabo in a
five-setter by score of 21-25, 26-24, 20-25,
25-23, 15-9 played in front of more than 5,000
spectators at Mario Morales Gymnasium.
Losers of the first two matches of the
best-of-seven final series, the eventual
champions went on to win the next four. Three of
the six matches were extended to the five-set
limit.
Casey Patterson, selected the Most Valuable
Player of the series, led Corozal with 23
points. Robert Nielsen and Matthew McKinney
contributed 15 and 12 respectively and David
Menendez added 9 points.
Lucas Chavez topped Guaynabo with 18 points and
Eric Vance and Thomas Hoff charted 17 and 15
points respectively.
“I am very happy,” said Patterson. “Corozal is a
great team and we never gave up. We claimed the
title and I feel extremely happy.”
“It was a very intense season but our team
worked really hard to achieve this
championship,” said Coach David Aleman. “We made
a great effort to revalidate the title and we
succeeded.”
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