{"id":12381,"date":"2025-06-24T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-softball-rd-debuts-vs-brazil-in-pan-american-cup-with-podium-ambition\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:16:20","slug":"womens-softball-rd-debuts-vs-brazil-in-pan-american-cup-with-podium-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/womens-softball-rd-debuts-vs-brazil-in-pan-american-cup-with-podium-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Softball RD: Debuts vs Brazil in Pan American Cup with Podium Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo \u2013 The Dominican Republic&#8217;s senior women&#8217;s softball national team begins its participation in the Pan American Softball Cup this Tuesday. The debut will be against Brazil at the Luis Escobar Pocaterra stadium in Monter\u00eda, Colombia, at 3:00 p.m. (local time).\n\nAfter the first match, the Dominican team will face Cuba in their second commitment of the opening day. The team will seek a solid start in Group B, where Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and the U.S. Virgin Islands also compete.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leader&#8217;s Statements<\/h2>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We trust in the quality of our players. We have a balanced team that can aim for the podium in this event.<\/p><cite>Juan Jos\u00e9 Brito<\/cite>\n\nThe team leader, Juan Jos\u00e9 Brito, expressed optimism about the possibilities of the Dominican team. Brito also highlighted that this tournament will serve as preparation for the upcoming Central American and Caribbean Games, where the country will be the host and will seek the highest honors.\n\nOn Saturday the 28th, at 10:30 in the morning, the Dominican team will continue its participation against the Virgin Islands. On Sunday they will close the regular round against Mexico at 9:00 in the morning at the Jos\u00e9 Gabriel Am\u00edn Manzur stadium, the main venue of the event.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Team Template<\/h2>\n\n\nThe national team has the following players:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pitchers: Anyela G\u00f3mez, Melody Vizca\u00edno, Eduardo Rocha and Cauris Rinc\u00f3n.<\/li><li>Catchers: Alondra V\u00e1squez and Yisel S\u00e1nchez (also at first base).<\/li><li>Infield: Anabel Ulloa, Leah Brito, Felicia De los Santos, Yanela G\u00f3mez and Divina Checo.<\/li><li>Outfield: Brianna Est\u00e9vez, Emmy Segura, Claudia Santana and Marianny Caso.<\/li><li>Reserves: Massiel Heredia, Katherine Sugilio, Deyki Dotel and Abigail Luis.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nBrito assured that the team combines youth, experience and a strong motivation to achieve positive results. The coaching staff is in Colombia playing friendly matches against the local team and the Cuban team.\n\nIn addition to competing for a medal, the Dominican team seeks to improve its position in the world ranking of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and secure its classification for upcoming regional and international events.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 The Dominican Republic&#8217;s senior women&#8217;s softball national team begins its participation in the Pan American Softball Cup this Tuesday. The debut will be against Brazil at the Luis Escobar Pocaterra stadium in Monter\u00eda, Colombia, at 3:00 p.m. (local time). After the first match, the Dominican team will face Cuba in their second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[926,4705,1271,565],"class_list":{"0":"post-12381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-softball"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","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=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}