{"id":501265,"date":"2026-03-02T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dr-defeats-nicaragua-and-takes-the-lead-in-group-a-in-the-qualifying-window-for-the-2027-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:25:24","slug":"dr-defeats-nicaragua-and-takes-the-lead-in-group-a-in-the-qualifying-window-for-the-2027-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/dr-defeats-nicaragua-and-takes-the-lead-in-group-a-in-the-qualifying-window-for-the-2027-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"DR defeats Nicaragua and takes the lead in Group A in the qualifying window for the 2027 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 The Dominican Republic’s senior men’s national basketball team authoritatively defeated Nicaragua 86-61 to secure their second consecutive victory in the Second Qualifying Window for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027.\n\n\n

You may be interested inr<\/a><\/strong>: Al Horford thanks President Luis Abinader and Minister Kelvin Cruz for the “La Tribu de Quisqueya” roof<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWith the triumph, the Dominicans improved their record to 3-1 and placed themselves in the first position of Group A, tied with United States<\/strong>, which earlier defeated 123-88 to Mexico<\/strong> in the Frontwave Arena<\/strong>, in San Diego, California.\n\nBoth the Dominican Republic and the United States secured their classification to the next phase of the qualifying process, as three teams advance in Group A and Nicaragua, with a 0-4 record, was left without possibilities of reaching them.\n\nThe match between Dominicans and Nicaraguans was played at the Alexis Arg\u00fcello Sports Center<\/strong>, in the city of Managua.\n\nThe home team started the match better and won the first period 18-14, but the Dominicans reacted strongly in the second quarter, dominating it 30-18 to go into halftime with a 44-36 lead.\n\nIn the second half, the team led by N\u00e9stor Garc\u00eda<\/strong> imposed its rhythm. The Quisqueyans won the third period 23-13 and closed the last quarter 19-12, extending the difference to seal the victory by 25 points.\n\n\n

For the Dominican offense, Joel Soriano<\/strong> stood out with 17 points and eight rebounds, followed by \u00c1ngel Delgado<\/strong> with 14 units. \u00c1ngel N\u00fa\u00f1ez<\/strong> also shone with 12 points, including four three-pointers in five attempts.<\/p>\n\n\nIn addition, Anderson Garc\u00eda<\/strong> contributed 12 points and seven rebounds, Gelvis Solano<\/strong> and Richard Bautista<\/strong> with seven points each, while Luis Montero<\/strong> debuted in this window with six units.\n\nFor Nicaragua, Eden Ewing<\/strong> was the most outstanding with 21 points and eight rebounds, accompanied by Jared Ruiz<\/strong>, who contributed 13.\n\nThe Third Qualifying Window will be played in July. Dominican Republic will receive the United States on Friday 3rd and Nicaragua on Monday 6th at the Virgilio Travieso Soto Sports Palace<\/strong>, in Santo Domingo.\n\nIn the qualifying process for the 2027 World Cup, 16 national teams from the American continent participate, competing for seven places in the international tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 The Dominican Republic’s senior men’s national basketball team authoritatively defeated Nicaragua 86-61 to secure their second consecutive victory in the Second Qualifying Window for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027. You may be interested inr: Al Horford thanks President Luis Abinader and Minister Kelvin Cruz for the “La Tribu de Quisqueya” roof […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-501265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26oV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501265","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=501265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}