{"id":18606,"date":"2025-07-25T18:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dr-crushes-mexico-in-u-21-volleyball-to-the-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:01:56","slug":"dr-crushes-mexico-in-u-21-volleyball-to-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dr-crushes-mexico-in-u-21-volleyball-to-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Crushes Mexico in U-21 Volleyball: To the Quarterfinals!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic U-21 Advances to Quarterfinals in the Pan American Volleyball Cup<\/h2>\n\n\nAlajuela, Costa Rica \u2013 The Dominican Republic&#8217;s U-21 women&#8217;s volleyball team secured their place in the quarterfinals of the Pan American Cup after a resounding 3-0 victory over Mexico at the Monserrat Sports Center.\n\nThe final score was 25-18, 25-17, and 29-27, demonstrating the superiority of the Dominican team throughout the match.\n\nWith this triumph, the Dominicans positioned themselves in second place in Group A, which gives them a place in the direct elimination phase.\n\nThe Dominican team demonstrated a dominant offensive game, scoring a large number of points through effective attacks. The statistics reflected their dominance in spikes (42-25) and blocks (10-6), while both teams tied in serves with five aces each.\n\nThe outstanding player of the match was Shantal Rivera, who led the Caribbean team with 21 points, thanks to 16 attacks, 2 blocks and 3 aces.\n\nThe team captain, Victoria Firpo, also had an outstanding performance with 11 points, resulting from 7 attacks and 4 blocks.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am quite happy, we have to try harder in the next game and play a little calmer, because today we finished very anxious.<\/p><cite>Victoria Firpo<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFrom Mexico, Mariana del Roc\u00edo Hern\u00e1ndez was the top scorer with 9 points.\n\nThe next challenge for the Dominican team will be tonight against Canada at 7:00 p.m. (Dominican time), in their quest to advance to the semifinals and win a medal in the tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic U-21 Advances to Quarterfinals in the Pan American Volleyball Cup Alajuela, Costa Rica \u2013 The Dominican Republic&#8217;s U-21 women&#8217;s volleyball team secured their place in the quarterfinals of the Pan American Cup after a resounding 3-0 victory over Mexico at the Monserrat Sports Center. The final score was 25-18, 25-17, and 29-27, demonstrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1271,1183,6090,2333],"class_list":{"0":"post-18606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-mexico","10":"tag-pan-american-cup","11":"tag-volleyball"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18606","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=18606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}