Dominicans achieve a sensational comeback

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, April 27, 2019 – Host Dominican Republic scored a sensational comeback from a 0-2 deficit to overcome Puerto Rico 3-2 (17-25, 21-25, 27-25, 25-23, 15-12) in a quarterfinal match of the U19 Boys’ Pan American Cup on Saturday at Ricardo Arias Pavilion in Santo Domingo.

In Sunday’s afternoon semifinals, the Dominicans will play Mexico, winner of Pool B at 5:00, while Chile will face Cuba, winner of Pool A, at 3:00.

Fuhit Edouard registered a tournament-high 31 points and Dawilin Méndez scored an all-time record 8 blocks among his 20 points as the offensive leaders of the Dominican squad. Bryan Muñoz and Brian Turbides had 9 and 8 in the winning effort.

Sebastián Negron and Diego Rosich were the best Puerto Ricans with 26 and 22, respectively. Wilmer Hernández finished with 12.

Loren Rodríguez, coach of Dominican Republic: “As in every semifinal I told the guys that it was going to be a difficult match so they had to play with hearts out. The home fans also played a key role helping our team.”