Updated Medal Count - Day 9 Central American/Caribbean Games

Written by Julio Pabón

Tuesday, 27 July 2010

The Puerto Rico women's Beach Volleyball team won and thus assured themselves a Silver medal. (Photo courtesy Meta/Juan Angel Alicea)

Cabo Rojo, PR: Puerto Rico's Women's Beach Volleyball team made history this morning by becoming the first medal winners in this sport. Yarleen Santiago and Dariam Acevedo were etatic as they played a very hard and competive game that only had at most a four point difference.

These Boricuas won 21-16, 21-17. They played Ingrid Morales y Natalia Alfaro from Costa Rica to assure themselves and their island nation a silver medal. They will play later today Mexíco for the Gold.

These first morning matches were played in the very popular, Boquerón Beach a mecca for Puerto Rican youth from the island and many youth from outside the island.

Latest medal count:

México	94	94	83	271
Venezuela	87	82	80	249
Colombia	82	64	58	204
Puerto Rico	22	30	55	107
República Dominicana	22	24	51	97
Guatemala	11	13	24	48
El Salvador	7	12	25	44
Jamaica	7	7	11	25
Trinidad y Tobago	6	6	5	17
Bahamas	3	3	3	9
Barbados	3	2	2	7
Panamá	2	2	8	12
Aruba	2	2	2	6
Costa Rica	1	4	12	17
Islas Caimán	1	2	3	6
Guyana	1	2	2	5
Antillas Holandesas	1	2	0	3
Bermuda	1	1	3	5
Islas Vírgenes Británicas	1	0	0	1
Haití	0	1	1	2
Antigua y Barbuda	0	1	0	1
Honduras	0	0	2	2
Surinam	0	0	1	1
Nicaragua	0	0	1	1
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
Islas Vírgenes Estadounidenses	0	0	0	0
Belice	0	0	0	0

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