{"id":101622,"date":"2017-07-17T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=101622"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:15:49","slug":"dr-defends-its-u20-volleyball-championship-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/17\/dr-defends-its-u20-volleyball-championship-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"DR defends its U20 volleyball championship in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-101646\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/U20-DR-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/>The Dominican Republic lost to China 3-0 (19-25, 20-25, 17-25) on Sunday, 16 July 2017 in the 19th FIVB Volleyball Women\u2019s U20 World Championship staged in the cities of C\u00f3rdoba and Boca del R\u00edo, Mexico from 14-23 July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Dominican Republic had defeated Poland 3-2 (20-25, 25-23, 20-25, 25-17, 16-14) in the start of the The Polish women had earlier defeated China (3-2).<\/p>\n<p>In a previous game, the DR team had defeated Peru 3-0 (25-20, 25-8, 25-19). The Dominican Republic is playing in Pool B against China, Poland and Peru.<\/p>\n<p>The DR next plays Cuba on 18 July as part of Pool H, then Egypt (19 July) and Italy (20 July).<\/p>\n<p>The biennial event features sixteen teams divided in four groups for the three-day round-robin matches, taking place in both cities. The winners and the runners-up will move to Cordoba to continue their road into the finals, while the rest will compete in placing matches in Boca del Rio.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the event at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/u20.women.2017.volleyball.fivb.com\/en\/results-and-ranking\/round1#anchorB\" target=\"_blank\">FIVB<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/u20.women.2017.volleyball.fivb.com\/en\/results-and-ranking\/round1\" target=\"_blank\">FIVB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 July 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic lost to China 3-0 (19-25, 20-25, 17-25) on Sunday, 16 July 2017 in the 19th FIVB Volleyball Women\u2019s U20 World Championship staged in the cities of C\u00f3rdoba and Boca del R\u00edo, Mexico from 14-23 July 2017. Defending champion Dominican Republic had defeated Poland 3-2 (20-25, 25-23, 20-25, 25-17, 16-14) in the start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/17\/dr-defends-its-u20-volleyball-championship-in-mexico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}