U-17 Women’s Basketball World Cup

Las Spanish stood up from the start to the great favorites for the title, although could not counter the power of a rival who put land in between in the first quarter and he knew how to manage some nearby rents to ten points until the last act, in which they again escaped on the scoreboard to achieve their fifth U-17 world title.

Iyana Martin, con nine points in the first ten minutes and that finished in the ideal quintet of the tournament, kept his team in the game, although the Americans, superior in rebounding and executing an intense pressure on the rise of the ballwent into the first break winning 24-13 after a final 9-0 run led by Jaloni Cambridge, their most inspired player at that stage of the match.

The girls trained by Cristina Cantero continued to stand up to the Americans and, after managing to halve the offensive production of their rival regarding the opening chapter, they were able to win the second quarter to go into the break ten down (26-36, min. 20).

The same script was repeated after passing through the locker room, with the Americans dominating the rebound (50-36 at the end) and the Spanish fighting every possession to don’t run out of options too soon.

To the last ten minutes came with a gap of thirteen points that was shooting with the passing of the minutes. The Americans went for the gold and They resolved the final with a triple by Mikaylah Williams who raised the score to 71-53 five minutes from the end and forced the Spanish bench to request time-out, although everything had already been decided.

In the end, the Americans prevailed 84-62 and took the gold. Spain repeated the script of the U-17 men’s team and hung up the plata while the bronze went to France, who defeated Canada 84-82 in the match for third place.