06/19/2024 2:28 p.m.
After having shown good signs despite the debut loss against Canadaone of the powers of the category, the Argentine National Team flourished and crushed Dominican Republic for the second date of Group A of the AmeriCup U18 Women from Bucaramanga, Colombia.
The young albicelestes offered a true offensive festival to stay with an 81-35 victory!! and thus achieved their first victory in the competition after the aforementioned setback in the debut. This time, the dominance was total in all aspects of the match and important progress was made.
For example, the team managed to reduce the number of losses compared to the debut, although the 17 committed is still a high figure. In addition, the National Team shot 41.7% on field goals but 19.4% on triples, while altogether registering 11 recoveries in an almost unmatched duel.
On this occasion, the Argentine scoring was very well distributed among 10 of its members, with Nerea Lagowski and Milagros Morell as the team’s top scorers with 13 points each. The other reference to exceed double digits was Alma Bourgarel with 11 more units. On the Dominican side, the best were Anny de Jesús (8), Leila Nuñez (8) and Natalia Valdéz (7).
Today, Argentina will close the first phase this Wednesday at 10:10 p.m. when it faces Colombia, the local team, with the possibility of finishing second in Group A. All of the team’s matches in Bucaramanga can be seen live on Basketball Pass.
