{"id":508808,"date":"2026-05-28T08:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/puerto-rico-defeats-dominican-republic-3-2-in-a-dramatic-duel-at-the-u-17-pan-american-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:33:01","slug":"puerto-rico-defeats-dominican-republic-3-2-in-a-dramatic-duel-at-the-u-17-pan-american-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/puerto-rico-defeats-dominican-republic-3-2-in-a-dramatic-duel-at-the-u-17-pan-american-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico defeats Dominican Republic 3-2 in a dramatic duel at the U-17 Pan American Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/h1>\n\n\nTEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS<\/strong> \u2014 In an intense match that lasted almost two hours, the defending champions of Puerto Rico defeated the Dominican Republic 3-2 (16-25, 25-21, 26-28, 25-20 and 15-8) this Wednesday during the second day of the U-17 Women’s Pan American Cup, held at the Jorge Galeano Gymnasium in Tegucigalpa.\n\nThe exciting match, corresponding to Group A of the preliminary round, lasted one hour and 58 minutes and showed two teams committed to every point.\n\nDespite the defeat, the Dominican Republic team offered a solid offensive and defensive performance, dominating in attacks 60-51. However, Puerto Rico made a difference from the service line (11-5) and in blocking (9-8), in addition to capitalizing better on rival errors.\n\nThe Puerto Rican offense was led by Carinialys Rom\u00e1n with 16 points, followed by Anna Aquino with 15 and Eliany Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez with 14 points.\n\nFor the Quisqueyanas, Shanty P\u00e9rez shone with 26 points, while Leandry Almonte contributed 24 units and Paola De Jes\u00fas added 10.\n\nDominican Republic started the match with authority by dominating the first set 25-16, supported by the strong spikes of Almonte, P\u00e9rez and De Jes\u00fas, as well as an organized defense that neutralized the defending champions.\n\nPuerto Rico reacted in the second set by adjusting its offensive system and strengthening its blocking. After a balanced start, the Puerto Ricans took advantage of several Dominican defensive errors to pull away 18-15 and eventually tie the match with a 25-21 victory.\n\n\n

The third set was one of the most exciting of the match. Puerto Rico took a 17-14 lead thanks to two important offensive rallies, but the Dominicans responded with a violent reaction led by P\u00e9rez, Almonte and De Jes\u00fas to tie at 20. In a dramatic finish, the criollas managed to win 28-26 to go up 2-1 on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n\n\nHowever, the Puerto Ricans reacted again in the fourth set, driven by the attack of Aquino and Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez and an effective block that complicated the Dominican offensive game. Puerto Rico won 25-20 and forced the decisive fifth set.\n\nIn the final set, Puerto Rico came out aggressively and took a 3-0 lead, taking advantage of defensive errors by the Caribbean team. The Dominican Republic managed to react and tied the score 7-7 with a powerful spike by Shanty P\u00e9rez, but the Puerto Ricans responded with a decisive rally that widened the difference to 11-7 and ultimately tilted the match in their favor.\n\nWith this result, the Dominican Republic will seek its first victory of the tournament this Thursday when it faces the United States at 5:00 p.m., Dominican time.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS \u2014 In an intense match that lasted almost two hours, the defending champions of Puerto Rico defeated the Dominican Republic 3-2 (16-25, 25-21, 26-28, 25-20 and 15-8) this Wednesday during the second day of the U-17 Women’s Pan American Cup, held at the Jorge Galeano Gymnasium in Tegucigalpa. The exciting match, corresponding to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":508809,"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":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-508808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-28mA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/FOTO.AYALA-DE-PR.ATACA-ANTE-RD-EN-U-17.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\/FOTO.AYALA-DE-PR.ATACA-ANTE-RD-EN-U-17.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508808","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=508808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}