Wenceslao Soto, executive director of Fundación Rica. External source.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The RBI Fundación Rica de Villa Altagracia Baseball Tournament reaches its 12th version and will be launched on Saturday, March 4 at 9:30 in the morning at the Danilo Acevedo stadium in this municipality, in coordination with Major’s office League Baseball (MLB).
The details were offered this Thursday the 16th by the executive director of said foundation, Wenceslao Soto, who announced that the main executives and national sports figures and some foreign personalities have confirmed their attendance at the high protocol.
Soto pondered that the baseball contest that benefits the youth athletes here is one of the four axes with which the Rica Corporate Group broadly supports the municipality of Villa Altagracia and its communities, which make up the educational, health and environmental aspects .
He added that this was the objective with which the Fundación Rica emerged in 2009, and that there is great satisfaction from both the company and the community members of the municipality.
He recalled that in each of Villa’s eleven RBI tournaments held previously, as in this twelfth, 220 players participate in categories of 12-13, 14-15 and 16-18 years, with four teams in each. Each participant has to meet the requirement, be a student.
He indicated that he will once again have teams from different sectors of Villa Altagracia, such as the Puerto Rico and INVI neighborhoods, the communities of San José del Puerto, Básima, Guananito, Los Mogotes, Kilometers 61 and 63 of the Duarte Highway and La Cumbre.
He informed that the stadiums in which the contest will be held, which runs until June, will be Danilo Acevedo de Villa, El Puerto and Básima.
The 2022 version was dedicated to the immortal of the Cooperstown Hall of Fame and the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame, Don Juan Marichal, who is among the personalities who confirmed their attendance at the inauguration on March 4 at the Danilo Stadium Acevedo of Villa Altagracia.
