Baseball
Of all the stops starting today, the Matanzas-Ciego de Avila duel could define whether the former will continue within the 50th National Baseball Series, the domestics classic in Cuba.
With 21 to 17 and placed in 7th place in the overall classification, Matanzas' Los Cocodrilos receive at home Ciego de Avila's Los Tigres, undisputed leaders during the preliminary stage of the Season.
However, although excluded from the so-called Classification Area, Villa Clara kept their meager chances of advancing to the 2nd round after winning 4-1 to the already discarded Santiago de Cuba. And another from baseball says that Cuban slugger and catcher Yosvani Alarcón hits 4 homers in double-header to appear as home-runs leader of the current Cuban Baseball Championship with 12 by hitting 4 homers during the double match program against Holguin yesterday at the Julio Antonio Mella stadium.
Fencing
Aspiring to score points in qualifying for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, a couple of Cuban fencers travel to Italy and Switzerland today to participate in World Cup Fencing on October 23rd and 24th .
Gymnastics
The World Artistic Gymnastics Championship, scheduled for the 1st time in the Scottish city of Glasgow from October 23rd to November 1st, will receive a record number of more than 500 competitors from 80 countries.
Chess
The Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez defeated today his counterpart Jonas Lamper to support his team with the 5-1 balance with which the Russian Mednyi Vsadnik team overcame Hamburger Von Schachklub 1830 German team, at the European Chess Club Championship.
Judo
Cubans Barbaro Sotomayor, Melissa Hurtado, Yurisleidis Hernandez and Adelaidis Lemus depart today to the United Arab Emerates, to compete from October 23rd to 27th in Abu Dhabi, in the Junior World Judo Championship.
Sotomayor, in the 81 kilograms, Hurtado (48), Hernandez (52) and Lemus (57) will be accompanied by Driulis Gonzalez, coach of the women's team, and Dr. Uvelino Moreno.
Cuba will also participate with Yandry Torres (60) and Ivan Silva (81), who meet until tomorrow a training base in the city of Craon, France.
Torres and Silva, bronze and silver medalists of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, will join their teammates along with Justo Noda, head of the coaching staff of the men's national squad, and trainer Julio Alderete.
Sotomayor won the silver medal in the men's senior national championship after losing in the final with Silva, while Hurtado, Hernandez and Lemus are bronze medalists in the women's Cuban tournament.
On the participation of women , Armando Padron, new head coach of women's national team, told ACN that Hurtado replaced Vanessa Godinez (44), who is recovering from an injury.
