{"id":508619,"date":"2026-05-26T17:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-republic-puerto-rico-triumph-in-the-start-of-the-womens-handball-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:38:29","slug":"dominican-republic-puerto-rico-triumph-in-the-start-of-the-womens-handball-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/dominican-republic-puerto-rico-triumph-in-the-start-of-the-womens-handball-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico triumph in the start of the women&#8217;s handball qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dominicana y Puerto Rico comenzaron con el pie derecho en la Copa Caribe de Balonmano Femenino 2026\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5_ifLQOpRE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>SANTO DOMINGO<\/strong>. The selections from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico were victorious in the first date of the Caribbean Women&#8217;s Handball Cup being held at the Table Tennis Pavilion of Parque del Este, qualifying for the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026.\n\nThe Dominican team decisively defeated their Costa Rican counterparts by 33 goals to 18. The first half ended 14-6 in favor of the Dominican women.\n\nFor the winning cause, Yojavel Brito, Nancy Pe\u00f1a and Mariela Altagracia scored five goals each, while Danilza Liranzo, Florquidea Puello and Olkidia Cuevas added four goals apiece.\n\nFor Costa Rica, Valeria Taborda scored four goals, while Diana \u00c1lvarez and Reychel Vargas finished with three goals each.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Puerto Rico triumphs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nIn the other match, the Puerto Rico team defeated Cuba 31-26 in a close game that opened the qualifying day, which concludes this Saturday.\n\nThe first half favored Puerto Rico 17-15, which had the offensive work of Delianne Ceballos, with seven goals, followed by Zuleika Fuentes, with six goals, and Edianed Ben\u00edtez, with four units.\n\nFor Cuba, Lietis Beltr\u00e1n and Mar\u00eda de las Mercedes Mazorra scored six goals each, while Zajaris Hern\u00e1ndez added five, and Diancy Gonz\u00e1lez finished with four goals.\n\nThe contest continues this Wednesday with two matches at 3:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO. The selections from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico were victorious in the first date of the Caribbean Women&#8217;s Handball Cup being held at the Table Tennis Pavilion of Parque del Este, qualifying for the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026. The Dominican team decisively defeated their Costa Rican counterparts by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":508621,"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":[6],"tags":[611,40231,40853],"class_list":["post-508619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-28jx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/BALONMANO.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":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/BALONMANO.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508619","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=508619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}