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The third and final fixture of the 2018 RAN Trophy takes place on Saturday in Santo Domingo. The Dominican Republic are to have home advantage against Guadeloupe. A win for the home side will see them crowned champions.
Both the Dominican Republic and Guadeloupe have already faced Curaçao this year. First to do so was the Dominican Republic. Playing away at the Kaya Mafalda Salsbach in Curaçao, the Dominican Republic completed an impressive 46-17 victory.
Curaçao recovered from the home defeat to travel to Guadeloupe and win 7-5 at the Stade Municipal des Abymes René-Serge Nabajoth. Both results indicate the Dominican Republic is well placed to win the RAN Trophy.
The Dominican Republic’s favoritism is aided by rankings with them having 30.76 points compared to Guadeloupe with 28.41 points. This means the Dominican Republic enter the match as 24th in the Americas Rankings while Guadeloupe do so ranked 37th.
A home triumph is thereby expected and Americas Rugby News predicts the Dominican Republic to defeat Guadeloupe by 25 points.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1 Andres Pepin de la Cruz, 2 David Enmanuel Viloria Zabala, 3 Osiris Kaonex Mancebo Almon, 4 Aaron Abel Ferreira Acosta, 5 Pedro Lora 6 Angel Garcia Espinal 7 Pablo Israel Portes Frias, 8 Victor Silverio Reyes (capt.), 9 Arnold Figueroa, (vice-capt.) 10 Colin Brown, 11 Luis Manuel Rodríguez, 12 Juan Rafael Paulino Mateo, 13 Eddie Patrick Abreu, 14 Manuel La Para Guerero, 15 Daniel Figueroa
Replacements: 16 Raul Cifuentes Bonnet, 17 Brahian Gómez Arias, 18 Melvin Herrera Lopez, 19 Narciso De Los Santos, 20 Juan Diego Marte 21 Rodnel Bien-Aime, 22 Rony de Jesus Luciano, 23 Luis David Alvarez Nuñez
GUADELOUPE
To be confirmed
Date: Saturday June 09
Kick-Off: 4pm
Venue: Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte, Santo Domingo
Referee: Gonzalo Tejeda (Mexico)
