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.

Granma, current monarch, and Sancti Spiritus won their respective suspended games yesterday and took a firm step in their aspirations to be included among the four teams involved in the playoffs to the second phase of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

Las Tunas beat 4-1 Santiago de Cuba to remain on top of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series, which last and official subseries finished yesterday, although there are many pending matches to be played.

Cuban Manrique Larduet remains as leader after finishing 3 out of the 4 subdivisions of the Men´s Individual All-Around Qualifying contest of the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships taking place in Montreal, Canada.

The Cuban women's and men's teams that will attend the Barranquilla 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games judo qualifying tournament, to be held next October 28th and 29th in the Dominican Republic, will be led by Kaliema Antomarchi (78 kg) and Alex Garcia (+100).

In another hard-fought match, the leader Las Tunas defeated at home 3-2 Santiago de Cuba in the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series, which regular calendar ends up today, although there are many pending games to be played.

Cuban Angel Fournier, men´s single sculls (M1x), won the silver medal in the 2017 World Rowing Championship, based in Sarasota-Bradenton, United States.