{"id":119586,"date":"2026-05-26T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-republic-and-puerto-rico-dominate-womens-handball-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:43:53","slug":"dominican-republic-and-puerto-rico-dominate-womens-handball-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-republic-and-puerto-rico-dominate-womens-handball-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico Dominate Women&#8217;s Handball Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO &#8211; The Women&#8217;s Caribbean Handball Cup, which serves as a qualifier for the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026, has begun with victories for the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico teams. The Table Tennis Pavilion of the Parque del Este is the venue for this competition.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic Imposes Its Dominance<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Dominican team demonstrated their superiority by defeating Costa Rica with a score of 33-18. The first half already showed a clear advantage for the home team, with a partial result of 14-6.\n\nYojavel Brito, Nancy Pe\u00f1a and Mariela Altagracia led the Dominican offense, scoring five goals each. Danilza Liranzo, Florquidea Puello and Olkidia Cuevas also contributed with four goals each.\n\nFor Costa Rica, Valeria Taborda was the most outstanding with four goals, while Diana \u00c1lvarez and Reychel Vargas scored three goals each.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Puerto Rico Prevails in a Hard-Fought Match<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the other match of the day, Puerto Rico took the victory against Cuba with a score of 31-26. The first half ended with Puerto Rico leading 17-15.\n\nDelianne Ceballos was the key figure for Puerto Rico, scoring seven goals. Zuleika Fuentes contributed six goals and Edianed Ben\u00edtez four.\n\nFor Cuba, Lietis Beltr\u00e1n and Mar\u00eda de las Mercedes Mazorra scored six goals each, while Zajaris Hern\u00e1ndez added five and Diancy Gonz\u00e1lez four.\n\nThe competition continues this Wednesday with two matches scheduled for 3:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO &#8211; The Women&#8217;s Caribbean Handball Cup, which serves as a qualifier for the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026, has begun with victories for the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico teams. The Table Tennis Pavilion of the Parque del Este is the venue for this competition. Dominican Republic Imposes Its Dominance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2916,1633,4121,1446],"class_list":{"0":"post-119586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-caribbean-cup","9":"tag-handball","10":"tag-puerto-rico","11":"tag-santo-domingo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}