Puerto Ricans Allanis Navas and Mar\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez defeated Mexicans Katherine Albarr\u00e1n and Atenas Guti\u00e9rrez to claim the gold medal at the NORCECA U23 Women\u2019s Beach Volleyball Qualifier to the Junior Pan American Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Navas\/Gonz\u00e1lez, considered the pre-tournament favourites, scored a 2-0 (21-19, 21-12) victory living up to the expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the semifinals, Navas\/Gonzalez subdued Canada\u2019s Becky Tresham and Kaylee Glagau 2-0 (21-15, 21-16) while Albarr\u00e1n\/Guti\u00e9rrez upset Cuba\u2019s L\u00e1zara Mad\u00e1n and Dayani Zequeira 2-0 (21-13, 21-15) in 31 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bronze medal went to Canada\u2019s Tresham\/Glagau who edged Cubans Mad\u00e1n\/Zequeira 2-1 (21-13, 17-21, 15-6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cubans Luis Reyes and Noslen Diaz were the champions of the NORCECA U23 Men\u2019s Beach Volleyball Qualifier to the Junior Pan American Games <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reyes\/Diaz claimed the gold medal following their 2-0 (21-14, 21-19) victory over Mexico\u2019s Miguel Sarabia and Raymond Stephens in just 34 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the semifinals, Reyes\/D\u00edaz defeated Nicaragua\u2019s Solis and Denis Lopez 2-0 (21-17, 21-10) while Sarabia\/Stephens beat Puerto Rico\u2019s William Rivera and Randall Santiago 2-0 (21-16, 21-17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bronze medal went to Puerto Ricans Rivera\/Santiago who won the third-place contest over Nicaragua\u2019s Solis\/Lopez by scores of 2-0 (21-8, 21-18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teams qualified were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and Costa Rica in both genders, the women\u2019s teams of Canada and Guatemala and the men\u2019s of Nicaragua and Dominican Republic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Puerto Ricans Allanis Navas and Mar\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez defeated Mexicans Katherine Albarr\u00e1n and Atenas Guti\u00e9rrez to claim the gold medal at the NORCECA U23 Women\u2019s Beach Volleyball Qualifier to the Junior Pan American Games. Navas\/Gonz\u00e1lez, considered the pre-tournament favourites, scored a 2-0 (21-19, 21-12) victory living up to the expectations. In the semifinals, Navas\/Gonzalez subdued Canada\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norceca.info\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}