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The eighteen-year-old Lithuanian girls’ team returned to the field after a day off at the FIBA Challenger tournament. Vilius Stanišauskas’s pupils, who demanded a lot of strength, only after the fight. 75:71 (22:18, 20:17, 12:13, 21:23) beat their teammates from Hungary. The Lithuanians have won three victories in this tournament and suffered one defeat.
He played the first violins again in the Lithuanian national team Justė Jocytė. The defender, who played an impressive game, scored 30 points (71.4% accuracy), bounced 10 balls, made 8 assists, took 6 balls and scored up to 47 utility points. This was J. Jocytė’s most effective performance at this tournament.
Gerda Raulušaitytė had 13 points and 8 rebounds, Dominyka Gerkytė added 10 points, Rusnė Augustinaitė added 8 points.
After playing the first 5 minutes, the Lithuanians had an advantage of 2 points (10: 8), and after the triple of J. Jocytė it increased to 8 points (20:12). Still, by the end of the half, the gap between the teams had narrowed (22:18).
Halfway through the second quarter, the Hungarians leveled the score (29:29) and even rebalanced in their favor (29:31). Until the siren sounded announcing the start of the long break, the eighteen-year-old Lithuanians fell away from their rivals, thus taking a 7-point lead – 42:35.
In the third half, he kept the Lithuanian initiative in his hands and, after Gabrielė Sederevičiūtė deliberately shot from under the basket, he moved away from his Hungarian teammates to a record limit of 9 points (52:43). Before the decisive quarter, the teams obtained 6 points (54:48).
The last 10 minutes of the match started positively for the Lithuanian girls (56:48). However, the Hungarians, taking advantage of Lithuania’s unsportsmanlike foul, missed shots and errors, maintained a 13: 4 streak and rebalanced the result (60:61). 120 seconds before the end of the match, the eighteen-year-old Lithuanian had a 2-point lead (68:66), which increased to 5 points (73:68) after several attacks. Although the Hungarians scored a triple, this did not take away the victory from the Lithuanians – 75:71.
Yesterday (July 29), the eighteen-year-old Lithuanians beat their teammates from Turkey by 71:65. As a result, 58:52 landed for the Serbs and they confidently beat the air on the first day of the tournament (July 27) (86:47).
Lithuanian basketball players will finish their match with the Czech Republic at the FIBA Challenger tournament tomorrow (August 1). The match starts at 6:30 pm
The eighteen-year-old girls’ team is led by Vilius Stanišauskas, assisted by coaches Simas Juraitis and Gytis Krugelevičius, athletic training coach Edvinas Goris, and physical therapist Julija Monkevičienė.
The FIBA Challenger tournament, which has become an unofficial European championship this year, replaces the official priorities of the Old Continent not organized due to the coronavirus. 28 teams compete in tournaments in five different cities.
Lithuanian basketball players compete in Klatov (Czech Republic), the tournament also takes place in Andorra (Andorra), Heraklion (Greece), Riga (Latvia) and Sofia (Bulgaria).
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