With an extraordinary performance in their last match, El Salvador defeated Panama 81-60 tonight and obtained the ticket to the Women’s Centrobasquet 2022 after closing her participation in the Central American Women’s Championship Mexico 2022, which took place in Chihuahua.
Led by Ray Santana, the El Salvador women’s team, which also won the silver medal, bid farewell to the competition showing that, despite the wear and tear after four intense matches, they had energy left to face the Canal team, which could only stay with one of the periods.
And it is that, in the first quarter, the Salvadorans entered with the mentality of establishing their own rhythm which they maintained throughout the episode and that it was reflected in the distancing that they were establishing against the canaleras by up to 10 points.
Under the leadership of Hilary Martínez, little by little the nationals were inspired to attack, take all the possible rebounds and dismantle a Panamanian team that desperately needed to put their first two points in this contest, which did not happen, since the team Salvadoran did not let up and with 1:48 to finish Emily Tevez He sentenced the episode with a long distance shot to put the cards 14-19.
In the second period, The actions were maintained by the Salvadorans and continued to pressure a Panamanian team that did not finish coordinating. About minute 7:44, the Cuzcatlecas began a series of attacks and rotation of balls that allowed them valuable annotations until getting 16-26, taking a good distance that was maintained until finishing the quarter 28-39.
After the break, the Canalero team entered with all the energy to stay alive and that translated into a series of annotations which tried to shorten the distance, but El Salvador continued to add efficiently and go up by up to 14 points and extend it by up to 18. missing 6:16 to finish the period. Although the canaleras scored 21 points and the Salvadorans 20, they continued to dominate the overall score 49-59.
Already in the fourth episode, the dispute to keep the ball and continue adding was the demand of coach Santana who asked that the Salvadorans not lower their guard, because their pupils reacted positively and with 7:41 on the clock they continued to dominate 49-63 . But despite all the attempts on the part of the canaleras they took pains, they did not get very close, and they ended up succumbing in episode 11-22 and El Salvador beat him 60-81.
For El Salvador, the most outstanding were Hilary Martínez, with 29 points; Kimberly Villalobos, with 16 rebounds; Keylin Murcia, with 6 assists. Meanwhile, for Panama, Milan Tuttle appeared, with 21 points and six assists, as well as Verónica Vega, with 9 rebounds.
