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Santo Domingo, DR.<\/strong> The Dominican Republic national basketball team closed its participation in the Third Qualifying Window for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup with authority by defeating Nicaragua 99-76 this Monday, in a match played at the renovated Arena BanReservas Profesor Virgilio Travieso Soto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the victory, the Dominican team finished the preliminary phase with a 4-2 record, securing their qualification to the second round of the qualifiers alongside the United States and Mexico. Nicaragua, for its part, concluded with a 0-6 record and was eliminated from the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The great protagonist of the match was RJ Luis Jr.<\/strong>, who had a dream debut with the senior national team by recording an impressive double-double of 22 points and 18 rebounds. The young player, son of former national team member Reggie Luis Charles, “El Fara\u00f3n,” led a Dominican offense that featured six players scoring in double figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andr\u00e9s Feliz contributed 17 points, four rebounds, and nine assists, while Jean Montero added 15 units. Joel Soriano also shone with a double-double of 14 points and 12 rebounds. Jassel P\u00e9rez and Chris Duarte completed the solid attack with 12 points each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Nicaragua, Jared Ruiz led the offense with 21 points, eight rebounds, and four assists. Kaleb Myers achieved a double-double of 20 points and 15 rebounds, Joost Wets added 18 points with seven rebounds and five assists, and David Watson finished with 10 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dominican team took control from the first quarter, which they won 21-15, and went into halftime with a 43-38 lead, despite losing the second quarter 23-22. In the second half, those led by the national coaching staff imposed their superiority on both sides of the court to extend the lead and seal a resounding victory in front of their home crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this result, the Dominican Republic maintains a steady pace on its path toward qualifying for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Qatar and will face the second round of the qualifiers with optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Santo Domingo, DR. The Dominican Republic national basketball team closed its participation in the Third Qualifying Window for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup with authority by defeating Nicaragua 99-76 this Monday, in a match played at the renovated Arena BanReservas Profesor Virgilio Travieso Soto. With the victory, the Dominican team finished the preliminary phase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":514085,"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":[44182],"class_list":["post-513499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-cover"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29Af","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260706-WA0230.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Basketball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG-20260706-WA0230.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513499","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}