Cuba won no medals in the final day of the Pan American Cadets and Youth Fencing Championship, based in Havana´s Sports City Coliseum.

The three-time Olympic champion Mijain Lopez (130 kilos) leads the Cuban teams that are training to attend the Pan American Championship, which will host Brazil from May 5 to 7.

Cuba lost 6-11 the opening match of the 4 th World Baseball Classic (WBC) against the host squad of Japan, winner of the first two editions of this contest.

Cuba won a silver medal in the women's sabre team event, in the penultimate competitive day of the Pan American Cadet and Youth Fencing Championship, held in Havana´s Spots City Coliseum.

Cuban fencers will attend several important competitions this year, including the qualifying tournament for the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 2018.

Cuba reacted in the eighth inning to tie 3-3 with the Orix Buffaloes in their first warm-up match in Japan towards the 4th World Baseball Classic (WSB).

Epee specialist Thaila Martínez was the best Cuban in the Pan-American Fencing Championship for cadets and youths, as she managed to be included among the eight best athletes of that tournament taking place at Havana´s Sports City Coliseum.

The Cuban U17 men´s soccer team, coached by Rufino Sotolongo, arrived in this city after having played two friendly matches against its counterpart of Jamaica, in Kingston.

So far, there are ten Cuban athletes already qualified to the World Athletics Championships, which will host London, England, from August 4 to 13.

The Cuban national team will travel from Seoul, South Korea, to the Japanese city of Osaka today to resume their training plan for the 4th World Baseball Classic (WSB).

Guantanamo´s Onel Santaclara won the eighth stage, from the towns of Cienfuegos to Santa Clara, of the Cuban National Road Cycling Tour.

Villa Clara defeated 76-75 Capitalinos, thus maintaining its unbeaten condition in the Cuban Men´s Basketball Superior League (LSB by its Spanish acronym), tournament which second stage takes place in Havana.

The squad of Pinar del Rio beat 6-3 its counterpart from the American city of Pittsburgh, in the friendly boxing match hosted by the November 19th multipurpose room of that Cuban western city.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (acn) Cuba lost 1-3 in Taichung to the Chinatrust Brothers, club from the local professional league, in the third game of its Asian warm-up tour heading the 4th World Baseball Classic.

Cuba reached the top of the ninth with a 1-0 lead, but its bullpen was not at the height when lefty Livan Moinello, who lost the game, and right hander Raidel Martinez allowed three runs, with 3 hits and two walks in that inning.

The run of the Cuban side was scored in the seventh frame by DH William Saavedra and it was an unearned run due to an error by the opponent pitcher.

The Caribbean squad had the chance to win the game in the bottom of the ninth when having two men on bases with only one out, but the Brothers closer, Lin Yu-ching, forced two Cuban pinch hitters to fly out, thus ending the game.

The team coached by Carlos Marti concluded its tour of Taiwan with balance of one win and two losses as on opening day they won 6-2, but then lost 2-4, in both cases against the local national squad.

Now they will travel to South Korea and end their tour in Japan, where they will play the first round of the WBC against the Japanese hosts, Australia and China.

The rain prevented the Cuban national team and the Taiwanese university squad from facing each other at the Intercontinental Stadium, as part of the friendly matches planned for the city of Taichung heading the 4th World Baseball Classic (WSB).

In clear brotherhood gesture, a squad of 13 young boxers from the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, will face today a team from Pinar del Rio province, at November 19 th multipurpose room of that Cuban western territory.