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The series of victories in the friendly match cycle was expanded by the men’s team Šiauliai-7bet preparing for the new Betsafe-LKL season.
Šiauliai’s guests defeated team Ogre de Ugre, who won third place in the Latvian basketball championship 70:64 (19:14, 14:21, 13:18, 24:11), winning the third consecutive game.
The start of the game did not promise the Lithuanian club, who played without difficulties against Giedrius Staniulis. During the first six minutes of the match, allowing opponents to score just 5 points, Šiauliai gained a double-digit lead (16: 5).
However, the Ogre snipers began to demonstrate their ability to shoot from a distance, hitting three triples at the end of the half and more than half the delay: 14:19.
During the first 4 minutes of the second half, Šiauliai stopped attacking and the Latvians returned to the game. Until the long break, neither team managed to gain at least a slightly larger lead. The lead team changed several times, and the basketball players came into the break after a long, quiet shot from the hosts in the last second of the quarter – 35:33.
After the break, the initiative belonged to the Latvians, who tried to catch the Šiauliai-7bet team off guard using the field defense system. She did not beat the people of Šiauliai to come out of cancer, so soon the Ogre team began to defend themselves personally again and did so much more effectively, forcing the people of Šiauliai to make more than one mistakes. time. In the middle of the quarter, Ugre’s team lost 7 points (46:39), which they held until the end of the quarter (53:46).
In the last quarter, the people of Šiauliai already demonstrated their ability to defend themselves. “Šiauliai-7bet” only caught a couple of minutes to catch up with the opponents and equalize the result. However, inaccurate shots did not allow him to separate from the rivals.
The game’s turning point came when Martynas Varnas took the initiative into his own hands. The player scored a couple of penalties and two long shots, and with a couple of minutes remaining, Šiauliai gained a 6-point lead (66:60). The minute break requested by the ogre team did not change the situation, the victory was obtained by the basketball players of the City of the Sun.
The “Šiauliams-7bet” points were scored by: Jon Elmore (5 assists, 4 intercepted balls) and Arminas Urbutis 14 each, Martynas Varnas 13 (6 rebounds, 4 intercepted balls), Paulius Danusevičius 11 (6 rebounds), Donatas Sabeckis 9 (4 res. Passes), Isaiah Armwoodas 5 (5 res. Passes), Danielis Baslykas and Jonas Paukštė after 2. Eimantas Stankevičius, Ernestas Jonkus and Kajus Leliukas did not score.
Paulius Poška, who moved from Panevėžys “Lietkabelis” to the Latvian club, scored 8 points.
In the first two matches of the friendly match cycle, Šiauliai-7bet beat the Seawolves of Rostock (Germany) 102: 86 and Lokomotiv of Krasnodar (Russia) 82:66.
Šiauliai-7bet will play the next two preseason matches in the basketball tournament to be held in Kėdainiai from September 7-8.
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