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BAYAMON, Puerto Rico.– Dominican Republic will play with Mexico for the fifth place of the NORCECA Men’s Continental Championship after scoring a 25-19, 25-18, 25-22 victory over Panama on Friday at Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum.

Jose Cáceres led Dominican Republic with 24 points and Domingo Avila charted 10 points for Panama. The Dominicans had a 8-2 advantage in the blocking department.

“Today many of our younger players saw action as they need to get exposed to the international competition,” said Dominican captain Victor Batista. “Tomorrow we are going hard against Mexico looking to avenge the loss in five sets against them during the last qualifying tournament to the World Championship.”

“I think the experience of playing against great teams with big attackers like it was today will help us to prepare better for the match against Barbados,” said Ricardo Brown, the captain of Panama.

“I agree with our captain,” said Jacinto Campechano, the Dominican coach. “The match against Mexico doesn’t have the importance of the last one, but we want to win badly.”


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Written by: dagtan, 17 Oct 2009 4:21 PM
From: United States
Here in the U.S. we are waiting for the next Felipe lopez, hoping that this time around it will last a little longer.
Written by: hellborn25, 18 Oct 2009 11:56 AM
From: United States
dagtan felipe lopez was bust , we have charlie villanueva, al horford , francisco garcia and trevor ariza , well hes half dominican but you get my point
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