HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 7 (acn) Undoubtedly, the game between the runner-up, Industriales, and the third seat, Matanzas, at Victoria de Giron Park, will meet today the highest expectations at the start of the fourth subseries, in the second stage of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

Cuba won 16 medals and an equal number of tickets for the Central American and Caribbean Games of Barranquilla 2018, in the judo qualifying tournament, based at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic .

Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez will attend the 2017 Champions Showdown, tournament that includes eight elite star players from November 9 to 14 and hosted by the St. Louis Chess Club in United States.

After six rounds, Cuban GMs Lazaro Bruzon (2660 Elo points) and Yuniesky Quesada (2619) appear among the leaders of the Spice Cup Open 2017 taking place in the American city of Saint Louis.

The five Cubans attending the 8th Santo Domingo Badminton Open debut today in the contest that will run until next Friday at Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, in the Dominican Republic's capital.

Orientales showed a timelier batting and defeated 6-4 Occidentales in the All-Star Game of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series that took place yesterday at Capitan San Luis Stadium of this city.

While watching the All-Star Game of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series, Kazuhiro Hisata, a retired Japanese player, recalled the 1990s when he was a teammate of Cuban ballplayers on Asian soil.

Granma defeated Villa Clara 2-0 and got its ticket to the second stage of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series, while Artemisa beat 2-1 Ciego de Avila thus equalizing 1-1 their wild-card series.

Cuban Melissa Hurtado ranked third in the 48 kilograms division in the 2017 World Junior Judo Championships running until next Saturday in the Croat city of Zagreb with the presence of 590 athletes from 83 countries.

Cuban forward Leydis Oquendo will join the Salvadoran basketball team of Santa Tecla.

The second games of the wild-card series of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series will be held today and the two tickets to the second stage could be already defined if Granma and Ciego Avila beat Villa Clara and Artemisa, in that order.
In the first matches, Granma defeated away 5-3 Villa Clara while Ciego de Avila won at home 8-2 over Artemisa.

Supported mainly on their offensive, the current monarch Granma and the runner-up Ciego de Ávila both won their first matches of the wild card series of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

The Cuban men´s duo of Sergio Gonzalez and Nivaldo Diaz earned a bronze medal in the Chinese city of Quinzhou, home of the 21st stop of the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour when defeating the Belgian pair of Dries Koekelkoren and Tom van Walle, who appear 12 th in the world ranking.

The wild-card series of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series will begin today with the clashes between Granma and Villa Clara at Augusto Cesar Sandino stadium, in this city, and the other match to advance to the next stage will be between Artemisa and Ciego de Avila, always with the second teams as home-club.

With 25 years devoted to archery, Juan Carlos Stevens will attend his fifth World Championship of that sport, which will be hosted by Mexico from October 15 to 22, contest which will also be attended by three other Cubans.

Pablo Civil, manager of Las Tunas, said that being chosen as head coach of the Eastern team in the All-Star Game of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series would be a high honor and a very important moment in his sports career.