{"id":203257,"date":"2023-08-30T07:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=203257"},"modified":"2023-08-30T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:59:24","slug":"dominican-republic-opens-volleyball-continental-championship-in-canada-with-win-over-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/08\/30\/dominican-republic-opens-volleyball-continental-championship-in-canada-with-win-over-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic opens Volleyball Continental Championship in Canada with win over Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RD-vs-Cuba-NORCECA--1024x787.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203279\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic\u2019s senior women\u2019s basketball team, best known as las Reinas del Caribe, defeated Cuba 3-0 (25-14, 25-17, 25-16) in the start of the 2023 Norceca Senior Women\u2019s Volleyball Continental Championship in Quebec, Canada. The tournament is taking place from 29 August to 3 September at the PEPS\u2019 Amphith\u00e9atre Desjardins-Universit\u00e9 Laval. It is an important qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norceca reports that Greisy Fine was a bright spot for Cuba, leading all scoring with 10 points. Outside hitter Brayelin Martinez led the Dominican offense with 9 points \u2013 6 attacks, 2 blocks and an ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican Republic led in all skills &#8211; attack 35-24; blocks 14-8; services points 6-1 and made the most of Cuba\u2019s 20 errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuba and the Dominican Republic are playing in Group B with USA and Costa Rica; while Mexico, Puerto Rico and home crowd favorites are in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/norceca.net\/Dominican%20Republic%20opens%20with%20a%20sweep%20of%20Cuba.htm\">Norceca <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 August 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic\u2019s senior women\u2019s basketball team, best known as las Reinas del Caribe, defeated Cuba 3-0 (25-14, 25-17, 25-16) in the start of the 2023 Norceca Senior Women\u2019s Volleyball Continental Championship in Quebec, Canada. The tournament is taking place from 29 August to 3 September at the PEPS\u2019 Amphith\u00e9atre Desjardins-Universit\u00e9 Laval. It is an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/08\/30\/dominican-republic-opens-volleyball-continental-championship-in-canada-with-win-over-cuba\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203257"}],"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=203257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203317,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203257\/revisions\/203317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}