{"id":134000,"date":"2026-08-16T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dr-defeats-argentina-and-makes-history-in-the-u17-womens-volleyball-world-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:57:00","slug":"dr-defeats-argentina-and-makes-history-in-the-u17-womens-volleyball-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/dr-defeats-argentina-and-makes-history-in-the-u17-womens-volleyball-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"DR defeats Argentina and makes history in the U17 Women&#8217;s Volleyball World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic makes history: Rayni Mondes\u00ed leads epic triumph against Argentina in U-17 World Cup<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic women&#8217;s volleyball team delivered a memorable performance at the U-17 World Championship being held in Chile. The national team defeated Argentina this Saturday in a vibrant match that was decided in five sets, securing their qualification to compete for ninth place in the world tournament.<\/p>\n\n<p>The final score of 17-25, 27-25, 25-17, 16-25, and 17-15 reflected the intensity of a clash where the Dominicans demonstrated their mettle in the face of adversity. With this result, the Dominican team consolidates its place among the top 10 teams on the planet, being the only Latin American representative to reach this level of relevance in the current edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rayni Mondes\u00ed: A performance for the record books<\/h3>\n\n<p>The name of Rayni Mondes\u00ed will be marked in the history of youth volleyball after recording an astonishing figure of 45 points in a single match. This performance was not only key to the victory, but it catapulted the attacker to 206 accumulated points in the tournament, remaining as the top scorer of the entire U-17 World Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">The Dominican offense had fundamental support from Leandry Almonte, who added 23 points, while Chanty P\u00e9rez contributed seven points. On the defensive side, the work of libero Jazlyn Pe\u00f1a was decisive in containing the Argentine team&#8217;s attacks.<\/p>\n<cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The path to ninth place<\/h3>\n\n<p>Under the direction of Priscila Rivera, the local team knew how to reverse a complicated start. After conceding the first set and being down on the scoreboard after the third partial, the Dominicans adjusted their offensive game. The fifth set was a power-to-power duel, where, after a 14-14 tie, Mondes\u00ed&#8217;s determination allowed them to seal the 17-15 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Match result: 3-2 in favor of the Dominican Republic.<\/li><li>Next objective: Dispute for ninth place this Sunday.<\/li><li>Next opponent: The winner of the match between Japan and Poland.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>This Sunday&#8217;s commitment will define the team&#8217;s final position in the general table, thus closing an outstanding participation that reaffirms the potential of young talent in Dominican Republic volleyball.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic makes history: Rayni Mondes\u00ed leads epic triumph against Argentina in U-17 World Cup The Dominican Republic women&#8217;s volleyball team delivered a memorable performance at the U-17 World Championship being held in Chile. The national team defeated Argentina this Saturday in a vibrant match that was decided in five sets, securing their qualification to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[1271,13589,2333,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-134000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-mondesi","10":"tag-volleyball","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000","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=134000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}