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Host nations Cuba and Haiti became the first teams to advance in Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship, both posting wins Monday to clinch first-round group titles and berths in the CFU finals.

Yorjandy Samonte scored two goals, giving him four in three games, and goalkeeper Yurisbel Ramirez posted his third shutout in five days to lead Cuba past Puerto Rico 2-0 in Havana's Estadio Pedro Marrero. It was Cuba's third win in as many matches and finished it with nine points atop Group 2.

Puerto Rico, which ended Monday's match with 10 players after Gustavo Chamorro was ejected with his second yellow card in the 76th minute, was five points back in second, two ahead of Aruba and three better than Bahamas.

Likewise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jean Derival also scored twice - his third and fourth goals in three games -- to lift Haiti past the Dominican Republic 3-1 . Derival also scored in Haiti's 3-0 win over St. Lucia on Thursday and in its 4-1 victory over Curacao on Saturday.

Jonel Desire was Haiti's other scoring hero through the first round, tallying two against St. Lucia and three more against Curacao.

Haiti also finished with nine points, atop Group 3, five better than both the Dominican Republic and Curacao. St. Lucia lost all three games.

CONCACAF U-17 qualifying results and standings

Cuba and Haiti will await the winners of the other three groups, along with the best second-place team from all five groups, in a final round August 19-30 at a site yet to be selected to determine the Caribbean's five berths in April's CONCACAF championship.

Group 1 with Antigua, Jamaica and Bermuda begins play on Wednesday, with Group 4 involving the British Virgin Islands, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago set for July 24-26, and Group 5 pitting Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis and the U.S. Virgin Islands to play July 29-August 2.