November 26 to December 17, 1978, Honduras. Venues: Estadio Nacional, Tegucigalpa Estadio Morazán, San Pedro Sula First Round Group A (Tegucigalpa) 26-11 Canada 9-0 Dominican Rep. [Branko Segota 3, 16, 34, Lajos Nagy 6, 66, Gerry Gray 52, 67, Graziano Cornolo 56, David McCaig 80] 30-11 Honduras 5-0 Dominican Rep. 3-12 Honduras 2-0 Canada [Matilde Lacayo 22, Roxne Romero 45] 1.HONDURAS 2 2 0 0 7- 0 4 2.CANADA 2 1 0 1 9- 2 2 3.Dominican Rep. 2 0 0 2 0-14 0 Group B (Tegucigalpa) 28-11 USA 2-0 Puerto Rico [Roberto Santana 16og, John Haynes 48] 1-12 USA 4-0 Trinidad/Tobago 4-12 Puerto Rico 1-2 Trinidad/Tobago 1.USA 2 2 0 0 6- 0 4 2.TRINIDAD/TOBAGO 2 1 0 1 2- 5 2 3.Puerto Rico 2 0 0 2 1- 4 0 Group C (San Pedro Sula) 26-11 Mexico 7-0 Grenada [Omar Mendiburu 11, 21, 37pen, Guillermo Padrón 22, Juan Antonio Luna 24, José de Jesús Mendizábal 54, Enrique Hernández 75] 27-11 El Salvador 2-0 Dutch Antilles [Ever Hernández 17, Carlos Aguilar 29] 28-11 Dutch Antilles 3-2 Grenada [Raymond Lucas 18, Ludwig Schoop 49, Eldred Calmes 50; Carlyle Redlor 19, Jude Julien 66] 30-11 El Salvador 0-2 Mexico [Omar Mendiburu 28, Guillermo Padron 31] 3-12 El Salvador 3-0 Grenada [Oscar Melhado 12, 53, Carlos Aguilar 36] 3-12 Mexico 5-0 Dutch Antilles [Omar Mendiburu 1, José de Jesús Mendizábal 19, Guillermo Padrón 47, 67, Juan Antonio Luna 64] 1.MEXICO 3 3 0 0 14- 0 6 2.EL SALVADOR 3 2 0 1 5- 2 4 3.Dutch Antilles 3 1 0 2 3- 9 2 4.Grenada 3 0 0 3 2-13 0 Group D (San Pedro Sula) 28-11 Haiti 2-1 Bermuda [Wilner Pascual 36, Arthur Calixte 67; Bean 10] 1-12 Costa Rica 4-2 Bermuda [Manuel Quesada 10, Luis Fernández, Guillermo Valenciano 44pen, 57; Melvin Bean 21pen, White 35] 4-12 Costa Rica 1-0 Haiti [Rolando Herrera 65] 1.COSTA RICA 2 2 0 0 5- 2 4 2.HAITI 2 1 0 1 2- 2 2 3.Bermuda 2 0 0 2 3- 6 0 Second Round Group A (Tegucigalpa) 7-12 Canada 0-0 USA 7-12 Honduras 3-0 Trinidad/Tobago 10-12 Canada 0-1 Honduras [Roxne Romero 8] 10-12 USA 1-3 Trinidad/Tobago [Ray Vigliotti 48; DaSilva 24, Anthony Barrington 68, Nigel Clark 70] 12-12 Canada 3-0 Trinidad/Tobago [Branko Segota 18, Danny Lenarduzzi 56, Ian Bridge 60] 12-12 Honduras 1-0 USA [Juan Cruz Murillo 80] 1.HONDURAS 3 3 0 0 5- 0 6 2.CANADA 3 1 1 1 3- 1 3 3.Trinidad/Tobago 3 1 0 2 3- 7 2 4.USA 3 0 1 2 1- 4 1 Group B (San Pedro Sula) 7-12 Costa Rica 1-1 El Salvador [Rafael Hidalgo, Ricardo Salazar (og)] 7-12 Mexico 1-0 Haiti [Omar Mendiburu 57] 10-12 El Salvador 1-3 Mexico [José de Jesús Mendizábal 32, Omar Mendiburu 52, Enrique Hernández 66; Ever Hernández 47] 10-12 Costa Rica 3-0 Haiti [Herbert Quesada 6, Álvaro Solano 26, Luis Fernández 47] 12-12 El Salvador 4-0 Haiti [Ever Hernández 14, Carlos Martínez 40, Fernando Arévalo 50, Oscar Melhado 63pen] 12-12 Costa Rica 3-1 Mexico [Herbert Quesada 29, Guillermo Valenciano 46, 58; Ernesto Esquivel 55] 1.COSTA RICA 3 2 1 0 7- 2 5 2.MEXICO 3 2 0 1 5- 4 4 3.El Salvador 3 1 1 1 6- 4 3 4.Haiti 3 0 0 3 0- 8 0 Semifinals (Tegucigalpa) 14-12 Mexico 2-0 Honduras [Omar Mendiburu 19, Marco Antonio Trejo 39] (San Pedro Sula) 14-12 Canada 4-0 Costa Rica [David McCaig 28, Ian Bridge 52, Lajos Nagy 54, Branko Segota 61] Third Place Match (Tegucigalpa) 17-12 Honduras 2-1 Costa Rica [aet] [Matilde Lacayo 21, Holvin Elvir 86; Guillermo Valenciano 48] Final (Tegucigalpa) 17-12 Mexico 1-0 Canada [aet] [Omar Mendiburu 88] Mexico and Canada qualified for WYC 1979 in Japan.
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