The national selection basketball teams of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico have each won one game in a three-game exhibition series being held at the Sports Palace in San Pedro de Macorís. On Wednesday PR beat the DR handily 82-57. Last night, in a game that was close throughout, the DR defeated PR 61-58. The tie-breaker will be played tonight at 9 pm. This exhibition series is billed as a "warm-up" to the Central American/Caribbean Basketball Tournament ("Centro-Basket") that starts next Tuesday in Havana, Cuba. Cuba and PR are the two teams presently favored to be in the finals of Centro-Basket, so a DR victory over PR now would bring it more attention in Havana.
