Santo Domingo. The U12 National Team will leave this Wednesday, May 17, for Aguascalientes, Mexico, where the Pre-World Championships of the above category will be held from the 19th to the 29th of the above month.
The Dominican Baseball Federation and its president, Juan Núñez Nepomuceno, represented through a press release the team, which will have the responsibility of qualifying the country for the U12 World Cup in Aguascalientes for the second time.
The team’s fielders are composed of Carlos Marrero, Marcos Pascual, Reyer González, Sebastian Basallo, Jairo Mejia and Jefferson Guzmán.
The gardens will be guarded by Michael Martinez, Gustavo Talmare, Angel Peralta, Andrey Junior de la Cruz, Leonardo Florentino and Anthony Reyes.
Similarly, for the Dominican Republic, Emanuel Reyes, Raylin Cabrera, Liz Presinal, Joshua Tomas as well as Anderson Santana and Juan Perez are pitchers.
Luis Rafael Ledesma “Manny”, the leader of the Quisqueyana squad and their coaching staff is Rafael Veloz, 1B coach, Luis Gonzalez, 3B coach, pitching coach Nectar Sosa, Eriberto Miranda, then representative, coach Monica Fernandez, mentor Maria Alt Maria, while Luis Alberto Uri Peña will be the referee.
With an all-against-all format, teams from the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Panama and Brazil dream of taking one of the four tickets next Friday the 19th Will start will be taking place in the competition, which will lead directly to the U12 World Cup in Taiwan.
The Dominican Republic plans to open the calendar against the Cuban team on Friday at 9 am (Dom. Rep. Time) at the “Gonzalo Villalobos” Railway Stadium.
Each team will have one rest day during the competition.
The clash for the medals is scheduled for May 28, with third and fourth going for bronze, while first and second are tipped for gold.
All games in streaming will be broadcast through the YouTube channel of the Pan American Baseball Confederation “WBSC America”.