T&T's women's vol­ley­ballers went un­der to the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 3-0 to drop to a 0-2 record in their Pool B round-robin se­ries at the eight-team 2019 NORCE­CA Women's Con­ti­nen­tal Cup at Rober­to Clemente Col­i­se­um in San Juan, Puer­to Ri­co, on Wednes­day.

Beat­en by world sec­ond-ranked USA in straight sets as well on Tues­day, eight-time Caribbean cham­pi­ons T&T were beat­en 7-25, 13-25, 9-25 by the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, who im­proved to 2-0 af­ter de­feat­ing Mex­i­co 3-0 (26-24, 25-11, 25-14) in their open­ing match on Tues­day night.

Gaila Gon­za­lez led the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in the lop­sided con­test with nine points as ten play­ers scored at least a point for the win­ners.

The Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic was ruth­less, dom­i­nat­ing 48-15 on spikes, 22-1 on blocks and 12-0 on ser­vice aces while tak­ing ad­van­tage of 22 T&T er­rors com­pared to 13 of their own.

Fletch­er had a team-best six points for T&T and Sh­er­nice De Four five in the loss, while Sama­ra Pe­ters-Charles and Danielle Noel added two each in the 57-minute en­counter.

On Thurs­day, in the team's fi­nal round-robin match, T&T will face Mex­i­co from 4 pm.

T&T, led by Ki­une Fletch­er, are with­out their ex­pe­ri­enced core of Japan-based Sinead Jack (Den­so Airy­bees), Dar­lene Ramdin (Mac­cabi AOV/Is­rael), Chan­non Thomp­son (MTV Stuttgart 1843 EV/Ger­many), Tai­ja Thomas (Mu­nic­i­pal Olympique De Mou­g­ins/France) and Renele Forde (Lefke Avru­pa Sports Club/Cyprus), who are un­avail­able due to club com­mit­ments, Afe­sha Olton-Humphreys and Jali­cia Ross-Ky­dd are in­jured and for­mer Turkey-based cap­tain Krys­tle Es­delle and Deli­cia Pierre are un­avail­able for per­son­al rea­sons.

Al­so on Tues­day night, Puer­to Ri­co swept Cos­ta Ri­ca 25-8, 25-14, 25-13 in their pool A open­ing match.

At the end of round-robin pool play to­day, the top team in each pool will ad­vance di­rect­ly to the semi­fi­nals while the crossover quar­ter­fi­nals will be con­test­ed be­tween the teams ranked sec­ond and third of each pool on Oc­to­ber 11, with the win­ner play­ing the semi­fi­nals against the win­ners of the pools the fol­low­ing day.

To­day's match­es

Pool A

To­day (Oc­to­ber 10): Cos­ta Ri­ca vs Cu­ba, 2 pm; Puer­to Ri­co vs Cana­da, 8.15pm

Pool B

To­day (Oc­to­ber 10): Mex­i­co vs T&T, 4 pm; USA vs Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, 6 pm

Quar­ter­fi­nals

To­mor­row (Oc­to­ber 11): Pool B run­ner-up vs Pool A third place, 6 pm; Pool A run­ner-up vs Pool A third place, 8.15 pm;

Semi­fi­nals

Oc­to­ber 12: Fifth to Eight semi­fi­nals, 2 pm & 4pm; First to Fourth semi­fi­nals, 6pm & 8.15 pm

Oc­to­ber, 13: Fi­nal play­offs