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Team USA to play for volleyball bronze in FIVB final
The U.S. men's volleyball national team will play for FIVB World League bronze on Saturday following its semifinal loss Friday to Brazil, 25-20, 23-25, 25-20, 25-19 at the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil.
The U.S. plays Canada for third place at 4 p.m. PT. The match will be shown live on Universal HD and also streamed on YouTube. France will play Brazil in the gold medal match.
While the U.S. led in kills (55-51) and aces (6-4) and were very close in blocks (4-5), they gave up 38 scoring errors while Brazil committed 19.
Brazil is the defending Olympic champion and has held on to five of its seven starters from Rio de Janeiro. The U.S. were without four of its Olympic starters.
Approximately 9,500 spectators filled the Arena da Baixada. It was the largest crowd the U.S. has played in front of this year.
"We didn't play our best volleyball match, but Brazil does some really great things and put a lot of pressure on us," U.S. Head Coach John Speraw said. "When you play a great team like this, especially for guys doing it for the first time, it's a challenge."
As a team, the U.S. hitting efficiency was .282 while Brazil's was .414.
"We're disappointed with the way we started," Speraw3 said. "We didn't play with the same type of emotion and energy consistently enough through the volleyball match that I think has typified our run through World League."
Outside hitter Taylor Sander led all scorers with 20 points on a match-high 18 kills and a match-high two aces. Outside hitter Thomas Jaeschke added 12 points on 11 kills and one block. Opposite Ben Patch scored 11 points on eight kills, two aces and one block. Middle blocker David Smith contributed 10 points on eight kills, one block and one ace.
"First of all, congratulations to Brazil. Right now, they're just a better team than us," Stanford grad and American captain Kawika Shoji said. "They're the Olympic champions and they have more or less the same team. I'm a little bit disappointed with the way we started the match - we didn't adapt to the environment quickly enough, but we're going to learn from this experience and get ready for the bronze medal match."
source:https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/07/07/team-usa-to-play-for-volleyball-bronze-in-fivb-final
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