{"id":9295,"date":"2025-06-05T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-republic-mounts-epic-comeback-against-mexico-and-advances-to-fiba-americup-u16-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:17:56","slug":"dominican-republic-mounts-epic-comeback-against-mexico-and-advances-to-fiba-americup-u16-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-republic-mounts-epic-comeback-against-mexico-and-advances-to-fiba-americup-u16-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic mounts epic comeback against Mexico and advances to FIBA AmeriCup U16 quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic Rallies and Advances in the FIBA AmeriCup U16<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic U16 national team achieved an impressive comeback to defeat Mexico 69-68 in the FIBA AmeriCup U16, securing their place in the quarterfinals of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican team will face Venezuela this Friday in search of a place in the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being down by 18 points, the young Dominicans showed character and determination, culminating their effort with a crucial free throw by Jostin Hernandez with only 1.5 seconds remaining on the clock.<\/p>\n\n\nHernandez, the team&#8217;s center, finished the match with 8 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists, playing a fundamental role in the game&#8217;s closing.\n\nLuis Valdez led the offense with 18 points, including 10 from the free throw line. Malvin Duran also had an outstanding defensive performance, contributing 11 points, 6 rebounds, and 6 steals.\n\n\n<p>Mexico had the opportunity to secure the victory in the final seconds, but Luca Balducci missed two free throws with 9.3 seconds on the clock, which allowed the Dominican comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Mexico&#8217;s effort, which had \u00c1lvaro Romero as its figure with 19 points, 15 rebounds, and 3 blocks, the performance in the third quarter, where they only scored 9 points, facilitated the comeback of the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this victory, the Dominican Republic concludes the group stage with a 2-1 record, while Mexico is eliminated without any wins (0-3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quarterfinals &#8211; FIBA AmeriCup U16 (Friday, June 6)<\/h2>\n\n\n\ud83d\udccd UACJ University Gym, Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>United States vs. Brazil \u2013 12:30 p.m. (local time)<\/li>\n<li>Puerto Rico vs. Argentina \u2013 3:00 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Dominican Republic vs. Venezuela \u2013 5:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Canada vs. Mexico \u2013 8:00 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic Rallies and Advances in the FIBA AmeriCup U16 The Dominican Republic U16 national team achieved an impressive comeback to defeat Mexico 69-68 in the FIBA AmeriCup U16, securing their place in the quarterfinals of the tournament. The Dominican team will face Venezuela this Friday in search of a place in the semifinals. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[389,1271,3616,1183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-basketball","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-fiba-americup-u16","10":"tag-mexico"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295","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=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}