The historic gold for Colombia in Central America basketball

Colombia won Tuesday the gold medal in women's basketball games of Central America and the Caribbean in Barranquilla and dethroned Cuba, which did not revalidate the title won at Veracruz 2014, where he won his tenth crown

The coffee team, which became strong with the public's energy, went more and more into the engagement and knew how suffering together at the worst time for forcing overtime to a 55-55 draw in the end would turn into a 67-65 victory that catapulted him as the new champion.

The two selected have nothing left to Elías Chegwin Coliseum, a boiler that has released the best of local and demanded the Cuban show his best version in a highly-disputed game that was signed in the first quarter with 17-15 with Yamara Amargo as the great pitcher of the night.

The aggressiveness of the Cuban quintet allowed him to get on the scoreboard for the second or the time, despite the fact that the Colombians were looking for "contras" with the speed of Maira Caicedo who did not prosper by lack of efficiency and made the island stronger, accurate in all shades to put the story 30-23.

in the third quarter Colombia regained the memory to play the game that gave him the gold medal in the Bolivians of Santa Marta 2017 and the South Americans of Cochabamba 2018. He took advantage of the fact that Cuba lost a lot of balls to give it a turn in the game by scoring 18 points while his rival barely managed to leave the score 39-41.

There the coffee quintet was set up in the game when Mabel Martínez, Yaneth Arias and Jenifer Muñoz began to guide to a new conquest, with such a decision that Narlyn Mosquera added with confidence, which had a good shot despite the fact that 20 shots hardly fit six.

But Caicedo deserves a separate chapter, that with a bo and a triple put the score 55-55 at the end of the fourth quarter. Already in overtime, Cuba could not with the pressure and was filled with inaccuracy when Muñoz came up with a triple over Colombia, which ultimately endured the match when Leidys Oquendo put the islanders at two points.

For Colombia, Arias and Caicedo were the best scorers with respectively 16 and 13 points, while for the Cuban team striker Amargo with 19 points showed his category, but Suchitel Ávila was the most influential With 22.