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Puerto Rican Deborah Seilhamer was the most voted player in the annual selection of the All-Star Team of the Puerto Rican Women’s Superior League.

The libero of Lancheras de Cataño, who won the triple-crown as best libero, best digger and best receiver of the circuit for the second time in her career, received 11 votes from a panel of journalists.

Middle Blockers Dulce María Téllez of Guaynabo Mets and Jessica Jones of Cataño each received 10 votes. The American Jones led the league with 80 blocks, two more than the Cuban Téllez.

Puerto Rico’s Yarimar Rosa of Mayaguez Indians and USA’s Erin Moore of Bayamon Cowgirls received 10 and 8 votes respectively as the top outside hitters of the league. Rosa was the best native scorer and attacker while Moore finished as the overall best spiker and second best scorer.

The opposite player selected to the ideal team was American Megan Ganzer of Ponce Lionesses who concluded the season as the league top scorer.

The best setter was Michelle Nogueras of Caguas Creoles who also was recognized as the Most Improved Player.

Cataño opened the Final Series of the Puerto Rico Women’s Volleyball Superior League with a straight-set (25-21, 25-17, 25-23) victory over defending champions Caguas in front of more than 4,000 spectators on Tuesday.

Cataño scored with 16 blocks during the night against only seven by the defeated side. The best scorers for the winning team were Jones with 13, including seven blocks, while Forsett and Encarnacion charted 12 and 10 respectively. For Caguas, Stacey Gordon had 15 points and Annerys Vargas registered 11.

The second match of the best-of-seven series will be next Thursday at Mario “Quijote” Morales Coliseum of Guaynabo.

“We prepared for this match and were able to stabilize our blocking throughout the match,” Jones said. “But this is only starting and we need to continue working game by game. We are playing against a great team and we know they play hard and never slowed down.”

Cataño team didn’t show any sign of pressure despite playing their first final ever and played with great control with setter Courtney Thompson feeding up all their attackers.

Caguas put some pressure late in the first set when tied up the score at 21-all but Cataño recovered behind the clutch blocking by Angela Forsett.

The visiting team controlled the second set with the key offense led by Forsett, Tatiana Encarnación and Oneida González along with the effective job by setter Thompson.

In the third set, the defending champions didn’t quit and battled hard but the inspiration of the visitors was even bigger. The clutch blocking by Jessica Jones and Shannon Wingate proved to be a key and the match closed out with consecutive blocks by Jones and Gonzalez.

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The main setter Courtney Thompson was named the MVP of the Final.