After the great debut with a win against Uruguay, the Argentine women’s hockey team, Las Leonas, will face its counterpart from the United States this Saturday from 11:30 at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games in search of continuing its path towards the gold medal for automatically qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after having won silver in Tokyo 2020. Meanwhile, the men’s team beat Chile 3-1 this Friday in Group A.
Despite the recent loss of Agustina Albertario, Las Leonas presented a solid and seamless game in the 8-0 victory against Uruguay. In this regard, Julieta Jankunas, scorer of two goals in last Thursday’s premiere in Chile, said she felt “happy.” “Taking a first step like this, forceful, is always nice. We have one goal: that everything we have been working on comes down onto the court. We enjoy it, I think we transmit that,” she declared.
“When we all hug together, we encourage each other to continue doing this. Goals are scored by one person, but it’s all a combination. The most beautiful thing is teamwork,” Jankunas told TyC Sports, adding: “We are focused and also with that amount of enjoyment, which is important.
The albiceleste team has just competed in the FIH Pro League 2022/2023, the annual competition of nations in which it was unable to defend the title it won last year and fell behind the champion, the Netherlands, the best team in the world.
Thus, the Argentine women’s hockey team’s stop against its counterpart from the United States will not be easy at all, which in turn comes from crushing Trinidad and Tobago 15-0, a rival with whom Las Leonas will close the group next Monday. 30th of October.
Tennis singles in semis
Julia Riera and Lourdes Carlé qualified for the semifinals in singles at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
Riera beat the Venezuelan Vanesa Suárez 6-4 and 6-2 and will next face the Brazilian Laura Pigossi, who in turn defeated the American Jamie Loeb 6-2 and 6-1.
Carlé, for her part, beat the Brazilian Carolina Meligeni 7-6 (5) and 6-1 and will face the winner of the match between the Colombian Yuliana Lizarazo and the Canadian Rebecca Marino.
Meanwhile, in the women’s doubles, Riera and Carlé fell 6-7 (5), 6-2 and 5-10 against the Colombians María Fernanda Herazo and María Paulina Pérez, but they will play this Saturday for the bronze.
In the men’s category, Facundo Díaz Acosta defeated the Mexican Ernesto Escobedo 6-3, 6-7 and 6-1 and went to the semifinals.
Basketball is also looking for a medal
After having defeated the host Chile by 87 to 71 on the second date of Group A of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, the Argentine women’s basketball team recovered from the setback in the debut, where they lost to Cuba by 86 to 74.
The albiceleste team led by Mauricio Santángelo achieved a 77-75 victory against Puerto Rico in the third game, qualifying for the semifinals against Brazil or Colombia.
With 20 seconds left in the game, with the duel tied at 72, María Jourdheuil converted a triple that took the Argentine team ahead and propelled the victory.
Point guard Camila Suárez was the top scorer with 22 points and was then followed by Jourdheuil and Candela Gentinetta, both with 13 points.
No bronze in beach volleyball
Ana Gallay and Fernanda Pereyra fell 2 to 0 against the American duo in the bronze match, and were left without a medal in beach volleyball.
In Peñalolén Park, Gallay from Entre Ríos and Pereyra from San Juan could not beat Corinne Quiggle and Sarahn Murphy, from the United States, and lost 21-18 and 21-10.
In this way, the Argentines – who in the semifinals had also lost 2-0 (21-15 and 21-15) against the Canadians Melisa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson – said goodbye to the Pan American Games in fourth place.
Meanwhile, the Argentine male couple, made up of the Rosario brothers Tomás and Nicolás Capogrosso – and who had lost last Thursday against the Canadians Jake Macneil-Alexander Russell – decided not to appear to play the next match against the Ecuadorians Dany León and Marcos Tenorio .
Finally, in round 3 of the Sub Surf Heat 2, Lucía Cosoleto fell with 8.17 to the 8.43 of the Brazilian Aline Adisaka, although she will go for the repechage.
2023-10-28 03:01:00
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