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The marathon of matches of the regional basketball league (TOPsport – RKL) continues. Last week, up to 32 matches were played in the third division in Lithuania in terms of capacity.
Season leader Vilnius Rivile suffered a rare failure at Plunge in Plungė, Ukmergė Olympics striker Augustinas Mikštas, who scored 53 utility points, led the season’s best team to new heights, and in the Division B, 3 of the 4 The teams that reached the TOPsport Cup are already clear. Final four.
Plungė beat the season leaders
The accelerated army of Plungė Olympus (15-10) does not stop the horses and activates the highest gear. The Samogitians coached by Aidas Žukauskas celebrated 9 of 13 victories in the first two months of 2021 and became the hottest team in the league as the regular season approaches.
Olympians playing an impressive stretch at home this weekend 84:62 (23:14, 28:14, 19:21, 14:13) confidently defeated Rivilė (20-4) and ended the series of 11 wins in a row.
Tomas Domarkas, January’s TOPsport – RKL best basketball player, scored 25 utility points in the victorious match for the legendary club, and Žygimantas Jocys added 23. The 18 utility point performance among the guests was hosted by Karolis Brusokas.
Olimpas lost the fight under the baskets 33:42, but hit better from distance (15 of 35 against opponents 5 of 21), made more assists (24 against 13), took more balls (16 against 10) and made fewer errors (19 against 26).
After this victory, the Plungė club settled in the fourth team tournament at the place of 4 tournament tables. In the regular season, the devils still have 5 games left, and 3 of them will be played with teams occupying 10-15 places.
At that time, Rivile, who suffered only 4 losses, is still the absolute leader of the season and is ahead of her closest competitors from Kretinga (17-5) by 3 wins. It is true that Kretinga has played 2 games less, so the question of the winner of the regular season remains open.
Ukmergė striker 53 utility score performance
An important victory was achieved by Olimpas de Ukmergė (8-17), which was balanced on the edge of the playoffs. Laurynas Dulinskas students in Klaipeda 97:94 (22:21, 19:22, 30:25, 26:26) broke the neighboring table of the LCC International University (7-13).
In this match, as in the entire TOPsport – RKL championship, the star of Augustinas Mikštas looked brighter.
The 19-year-old scored 29 points in 36 minutes (8/12 doubles, 1/3 trip, 10/11 penalty), bounced 13 balls, made 5 assists, intercepted 2 balls, made 1 error, blocked 2 shots, he caused 11 fouls and scored 53 utility points.
This is the best result of the season in the TOPsport-RKL championship. Nikita Sokolov scored 33 utility points for the LCC team.
Due to the circumstances of COVID-19, Division A teams have a different number of games to play until the end of the regular season; this number currently balances between 5 and 10 matches. There will be 12 champion teams in the playoffs, with the 15-16 spots competing in Division B next season.
Olimpas is currently 12th and the LCC, with 10 games in reserve, is 13th.
Soft’s performance was not the only record this season. In Division A, Kėdainiai SC “Ateitis” forward (13-9), Justinas Žirlys, scored 13 points from 19 points and his team broke Biržai KKSC 94:76 (11/13).
Division 17 Ignalina “Vilkakalnis” (2-13) 17-year-old defender Jokūbas Fominas scored up to 43 points in a match with Kazlų Rūda “Ataka” (16-1), but his team lost 61: 100.
In Division B, Radviliškis ŠSPC (2/13) 104: 98 broke Pakruojis SC (7/8) and scored as many as 18 points out of three of 40 (45%).
There is only one unknown in the quadruple TOPsport Cup
TOPsport – RKL Division B teams continue to fight for the first season trophy. March 12-14 “Jurbarkas” and Kaunas “Žalgiris-3” will compete for the ticket to the super final of the final phase of the fourth quarter.
Jurbarkas made it to the four finalists a little earlier, and the people from Žalgiris did it this week, when they were in the quarterfinals. 77:60 (24:10, 20:22, 20:18, 13:10) defeated Pakruojis SC “Lygumai-ŽŪB”. Vytautas Pliauga’s students, who were playing at home, sent their opponents to the pits already in the first half, and during the remaining quarters they successfully saved the advantage they had gained.
Dominyka Butka and Ned Montvila (16), who scored 19 utility points, were the biggest contributors to this. In the ranks of Pakruojis, the performance of 20 utility points was organized by Mantas Jankaitis, 16 points were scored by Daivaras Pakarklis.
Radviliškis ŠSPC will also play in the quartet of the final of the TOPsport Cup organized for the first time, on Saturday 75:67 (11:20, 19:17, 24:11, 21:19) breaking Anykščiai’s “Elmis”.
Radviliškis basketball players, who played at home, had a deficit of 9 points after the first half and 7 points after the second. After the big jump, Luke Pipiro’s students ran and won 24:11 in the third quarter. In the last quarter, a persistent fight ensued, but in the end, Radviliškis basketball players, who played more accurately, were happy with the ticket to the final four.
Aivaras Kvedaravičius scored 19, Gražvydas Mockus – 18 utility points for the winners. Donatas Radžiūnas (18), Tautvydas Jodelis (17) and Žygimantas Žiukas (15) pushed Elmio’s transport forward.
Radviliškis’s opponent in the semi-finals will be revealed after the battle of Kazlų Rūda “Ataka” and Šiauliai “Saulė-SG”. The match in Kazlų Rūda will take place on March 8.
The team that won the TOPsport Cup will not only enjoy the trophy, but will also have an exceptional opportunity to fight for a spot in Division A next season.
If the tournament is not won by a team that does not play in the major division of Division B, after the end of 2020-2021. For the championship, he will play extra games with the team that lost him and, in case of victory, he will leave a ticket for Division A.
If the TOPsport Cup is won by one of the teams that will play the final of Division B later, regardless of their result, both will win a ticket to Division A.
Historically the most successful season of “Ryto-MRU-VKM”
The TOPsport-RKL Division B regular season is also drawing to a close. In group A of nine teams, Kupiškis has already played all their matches (6-10), and the other teams only have one match left.
The 6 strongest teams in Group A will advance to the 8th final, and the 7th to 9th place teams in the 16th series will have up to 2 victories in Group B with the 8th to 10th place teams. In group B, the top 7 teams will advance directly to the eighth final.
Vilnius Rytas-MRU-VKM (11-7) have already played in Group B throughout the regular season. Gintautas Regina students twice last weekend 99:61 (19:18, 21:13, 22:15, 37:15) and 93:65 (21:12, 18:12, 25:29, 29:12) defeated Marijampolė SC (0-12). Vilnius representatives already know their last place in the regular season.
Matas Mačijauskas, 18, played an impressive match on Saturday. The 210 cm tall midfielder managed to score up to 43 utility points in 25 minutes (25 points, doubles from 9/11, 1/1 trit., 4/5 penalties, 18 rebounds, 2 innings)., 1 per room, 4th. Grade, 1 block, 5 exits). Mantas Varnagiris accumulated 24 utility points at the Marijampolė club.
Regardless of how opponents play the rest of the match, G. Regina’s army will retain fifth place out of 10 teams. The fate of the first place here is also not clear yet. Kazlų Rūda “Ataka” (16-1) and Kaunas “Žalgiris-3” (14-1) compete for him.
Interestingly, from 2015-2016. This regular season was the most successful for the Ryto-MRU-VKM club competing in the TOPsport-RKL championship of the season.
2017-2018 There were 13 victories (59.9%) in 22 regular season games. Taking into account the percentage of matches won and lost, this season was the most successful for Vilnius residents (61.1% of matches were won).
The Ryto-MRU-VKM team’s greatest achievement in the TOPsport-RKL championship was recorded in the former in 2015-2016. season in which the capital’s basketball players reached the quarterfinals of Division B. Then, in the regular season, Vilnius residents achieved 10 victories in 18 games.
At that point, the question about the winner of Division B in Group A is likely to be open until the last game of the regular season. In group A, Jurbarkas (14-1) and Radviliškis (13-2) are ahead.
It is these teams that will meet in the last meeting of the regular season. The match will take place in Radviliškis next Friday. Jurbarkas won the first mutual encounter in early January by 73:59, so Radviliškis will have to beat Jurbarkas by at least 15 points to triumph in his group on Friday.
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