The Dominican Republic is looking to beat the Bahamas. The countries meet today in the third and final fixture of the 2017 Rugby Americas North Cup – North Zone Cup.
Both sides lost to Turks & Caicos in the prior fixtures, making this fixture a battle for second position. For the Dominican Republic it is an opportunity to make history by defeating a World Rugby member nation.
The Dominican Republic are to have home advantage. They will be playing at the Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte. Kick-off is scheduled for 4:00pm.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1 Andres Pepin, 2 David Enmanuel Viloria Zabala, 3 Brahian Gomez Arias, 4 Rolfy Estarlin J. Valenzuela, 5 Javier Baez Gerez, 6 Victor Arturo Fernandez Pineda, 7 Jesus Lora Sánchez, 8 Victor Silverio, 9 Luis David Alvarez Nuñez, 10 Arnold Figueroa J, 11 Pablo Portes, 12 Erick Arias Escalante, 13 Juan Diego Marte, 14 Rony De Jesus Luciano, 15 Daniel Figueroa
Replacements: 16 Raul Cifuentes Bonnet, 17 Kaonex Mancebo Almont, 18 Christopher Soto Mateo, 19 Angelo Reid, 20 Michael Guerrero Gomez, 21 Hansel Ramos, 22 Colin Brown, 23 Kelvis Arias