{"id":486805,"date":"2025-10-14T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/fitzgerald-and-de-la-cruz-lead-los-prados-to-victory-over-huellas-del-siglo\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:23:57","slug":"fitzgerald-and-de-la-cruz-lead-los-prados-to-victory-over-huellas-del-siglo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/basketball\/fitzgerald-and-de-la-cruz-lead-los-prados-to-victory-over-huellas-del-siglo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzgerald and De la Cruz lead Los Prados to victory over Huellas del Siglo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<em>SANTO DOMINGO,<\/em>\u2014 The American reinforcement <strong>BJ Fitzgerald<\/strong> and the Dominican <strong>Jayvian De la Cruz<\/strong> combined to lead <strong>Los Prados club<\/strong> to an important 82-73 victory over <strong>Huellas del Siglo<\/strong>, in the continuation of the regular season of the <strong>National District Superior Basketball Tournament (TBS Distrito 2025)<\/strong>, in a duel played on Tuesday night at the Ricardo \u2013Gioriver\u2013 Arias Volleyball Palace.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong>H<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/baloncesto\/huellas-del-siglo-le-arrebata-victoria-a-rafael-barias-con-cinco-tiros-libres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uellas del Siglo snatches victory from Rafael Barias with five free throws<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nFitzgerald shone with <strong>23 points and eight assists<\/strong>, being the offensive engine of the Prade\u00f1o team, while De la Cruz added <strong>19 points and five rebounds<\/strong>. The Puerto Rican reinforcement <strong>\u00c1ngel Mat\u00edas<\/strong> also had an outstanding performance by registering a <strong>double-double<\/strong> of 14 points and 15 rebounds, in addition to distributing five assists.\n\nWith this triumph, Los Prados improved their record to 4-4, placing them in the third position of Group A, while Huellas del Siglo fell to 3-5, descending to fourth place in the same division.\n\nEach group (A and B) qualifies <strong>three teams<\/strong> to the <strong>Elimination Phase<\/strong>, carrying over their record obtained in the regular season, which makes each match of great importance in this final stretch.\n\nBy Huellas del Siglo, the American reinforcement <strong>Emmanuel Egbuta<\/strong> stood out again with <strong>23 points and 14 rebounds<\/strong>, <strong>Anphernee Acevedo<\/strong> contributed 17 units, seven rebounds and seven assists, while the York-Dominican <strong>Miguel Miranda<\/strong> added 11 points.\n\nThe match marked the end of the intergroup matches of the tournament, which is in decisive days to define the tickets to the next phase.\n\nThe <strong>TBS Distrito 2025<\/strong> is organized by the <strong>Asociaci\u00f3n de Baloncesto del Distrito Nacional (Abadina)<\/strong>, under the presidency of Colonel (PN) <strong>Diego Pesqueira<\/strong>, and has an <strong>Organizing Committee headed by Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Paliza<\/strong>, Minister of the Presidency. The current edition is <strong>dedicated to the Dominican Sports Immortal Evaristo P\u00e9rez<\/strong>, former player of the national team and the San Carlos club.\n\n<strong>Upcoming matches \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong><br>The tournament enters a <strong>crucial week<\/strong>, the penultimate of the regular season, with a double header in its 16th matchday out of a total of 20.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>7:00 p.m.:<\/strong> El Mill\u00f3n vs. Rafael Barias<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>9:00 p.m.:<\/strong> San L\u00e1zaro vs. Bameso<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nBoth matches correspond to <strong>Group B<\/strong> and will be played again at the Palacio Gioriver Arias, of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO,\u2014 The American reinforcement BJ Fitzgerald and the Dominican Jayvian De la Cruz combined to lead Los Prados club to an important 82-73 victory over Huellas del Siglo, in the continuation of the regular season of the National District Superior Basketball Tournament (TBS Distrito 2025), in a duel played on Tuesday night at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":486806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35743],"tags":[611,40231,42012,40853],"class_list":["post-486805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-national-district-basketball","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22DH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/d511c3b0-4bf0-4788-ab1b-256b5486.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Basketball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/d511c3b0-4bf0-4788-ab1b-256b5486.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}