{"id":127828,"date":"2019-06-24T12:53:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=127828"},"modified":"2019-06-24T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:36:08","slug":"dr-loses-close-match-to-japan-in-womens-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/06\/24\/dr-loses-close-match-to-japan-in-womens-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"DR loses close match to Japan in women&#8217;s volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bethania-de-la-Cruz-This-is-Volleyball.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127831\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bethania-de-la-Cruz-This-is-Volleyball.png 561w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bethania-de-la-Cruz-This-is-Volleyball-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bethania-de-la-Cruz-This-is-Volleyball-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic&#8217;s women volleyball team (Queens of the Caribbean) almost defeated Japan in the FIVB Nations League volleyball championship in Korea. In a final game on Thursday, 20 June 2019, the 9th ranked DR lost to 6th ranked Japan 3-2 ((25-17, 25-23, 24-26, 26-28, 15-10). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the two teams clashed on the closing day of this year&#8217;s pool play at Boryeong, Korea, the Dominican Republic&#8217;s Bethania de la Cruz scored 35 points and Japan&#8217;s Ai Kurogo 30 for the first ever double 30+ in an FIVB Volleyball Nations League match. The FIVB reported that 32-year-old De La Cruz scored off just 20 attacks (20\/55 for a 36% efficiency), but added as many as 8 blocks and 7 aces to her tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outside hitter is the second Dominican player to make the list of players who have scored 30 points or more in a single VNL match. Brayelin Martinez has entries from both earlier this year (36 points against Thailand) and last year (31 against Korea).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volleyball.world\/en\/vnl\/womensfinals\/news\/double-30-from-de-la-cruz-and?id=83673\">Volleyball Nations League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 June 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic&#8217;s women volleyball team (Queens of the Caribbean) almost defeated Japan in the FIVB Nations League volleyball championship in Korea. In a final game on Thursday, 20 June 2019, the 9th ranked DR lost to 6th ranked Japan 3-2 ((25-17, 25-23, 24-26, 26-28, 15-10). When the two teams clashed on the closing day &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/06\/24\/dr-loses-close-match-to-japan-in-womens-volleyball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127828"}],"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=127828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127832,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127828\/revisions\/127832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}