A remarkable performance crowned the Chilean 3 × 3 basketball team at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games in Cali, after hanging the bronze medal after defeating the Dominican Republic in a dramatic match.
Team Chile accounted for the Central Americans by a tight 17-16, in one of the last matches of the final day of the most important youth tournament on the continent.
The figure of the commitment was the player from Penco, Felipe Inyaco, who put the definitive advantage with an incredible double with less than a minute to go to the end of the match. The base formed in the German CD, highlighted the achievement obtained in coffee lands. “It was a very hard-fought match and even with 10 seconds to go, we felt like we had a guaranteed victory. At one point we were point to point and the game was for either of us, we began to feel it and in the end it was for us, so we feel very happy to get this bronze medal, something very important, “said the pencón after the victory.
The national squad, composed in addition to Inyaco by Aitor Pickett, Joaquín Pino and Lucas Thiebaut, thus completed an almost perfect tournament where they added victories over Argentina, Saint Lucia, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, regretting only the defeat against Venezuela in semifinals.
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