Puerto Rico's female Voleyball squad celebrates their win over Mexico in 3 consecutive sets. (Photo LSV)

Aguada, PR: This small Western town, in the Porta De Sol corridor of towns that are also part of these Central American & Caribbean Games had a big victory today when Enrique Martínez from Vieques, PR defeated Venezuela's, Armando Maita in the finals of the 55 kilograms competition to win Puerto Rico’s the seventh Gold medal in Judo.

In the next competition, San Juan’s Carlos Santiago won a Bronze medal Vs. Diego Ochoa from El Salvador in the heavy weight class.

In the history of these games, Puerto Rico has won more medals in swimming than any other sport. However, in these XXI Games, Puerto Rico is beginning to surprise many in the sport of Judo with a total of 13 medals, seven Gold, two Silver and four Bronzes.

The Puerto Rico female Volleyball team is ranked 10th in the world (Photo LSV)

Meanwhile over five thousand spectators packed the Palacio Del Deporte in Mayagüez to watch Puerto Rico’s female volleyball team defeat Mexico’s top sextet in three consecutive sets. Puerto Rico’s female team is ranked 10th in the world and Mexico’s is ranked 14th. This now sets the stage for what will be the showdown between Dominican Republic (ranked 11th) and Puerto Rico for the gold. Now that will be one packed game since these two are the Boston Red Sox & Yankees of female volleyball in the Caribbean.

Enrique Martínez won PR's seventh Gold Medal in judo. His emotions say's it all. (Olimpo Ramos/META)

In baseball, the town of Aguadilla hosted the Puerto Rico’s win Vs. Guatemala by a score of 9-0 in shortened game due to rains that have not given the West Coast a break since these games began.

One another front, Ponce, Puerto Rico witnessed history as the Dominican Republic won it’s first ever Gold medal in bowling.

The following is the updated medal count as of July 20, 2010;

	oro	plata	bronce	Total
Colombia	33	21	22	76
Venezuela	25	27	24	76
México	25	27	28	80
Puerto Rico	10	16	14	40
República Dominicana	7	6	21	34
Jamaica	3	1	1	5
Guatemala	2	3	6	11
Panamá	1	0	4	5
El Salvador	1	2	8	11
Bahamas	1	2	2	5
Barbados	1	1	0	2
Bermuda	0	0	2	2
Costa Rica	0	0	3	3
Dominica	0	0	0	0
San Kitts y Nevis	0	0	0	0
San Vicente y las Granadinas	0	0	0	0
Granada	0	0	0	0
Santa Lucía	0	0	0	0
Surinam	0	0	0	0
Guyana	0	0	1	1
Trinidad y Tobago	0	0	1	1
Haití	0	1	1	2
Honduras	0	0	0	0
Islas Caimán	0	1	1	2
Antigua y Barbuda	0	0	0	0
Islas Vírgenes Británicas	0	0	0	0
Antillas Holandesas	0	1	0	1
Islas Vírgenes Estadounidenses	0	0	0	0
Aruba	0	0	0	0
Belice	0	0	0	0
Nicaragua	0	0	0	0

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