In Serie del Caribe news...Licey became the first non-championship team to win the series. They were the runner-up in the Dominican League replacing Puerto Rico who was absent this year.
In Cuban baseball...
Occidentales beat the Orientales when Pinar del Rio's Yosvani Peraza hit a walk off homerun in the 9th to give them the win, 6-5.
Yulieski Gourriel beat Joan Carlos Pedroso in the homerun derby.
Michel Enriquez has been reinstated in Cuban baseball just in time to have a chance to be a part of the Olympic team and the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
