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The Utena Juventus-Uniclub Casino team made solid progress on the 3×3 World Championship stage in Doha, but broke in the semi-finals – 13:21 landed for Riga basketball players.
The semi-final started for the Juventus team with the most serious challenge and could not escape – 4: 4. The Riga basketball players shot two more 3-pointers, although soon Ž.Skučas reduced the difference by 5 points to the basket. The two teams exchanged 3-pointers, but the Riga team staged more successful attacks and quickly walked away – 16: 8.
The Latvians kept the difference and came close to victory (20:13), and the last hopes were swept away by the shot from under the basket.
“Juventus”: Ignas Vaitkus 6, Vytautas Šulskis 3, Gintautas Matulis and Žygimantas Skučas – 2 each.
“Riga”: Edgaras Kruminis 10, Nauris Miezis 6, Karlis Lasmanis 4, Agnis Čavaras 1.
In the first stage, Juventus collected both victories, and then in the quarterfinals 21: 7 defeated the Lusail team from Qatar’s Lusail.
Utena’s team completely dominated early in the game and led 4: 1. The gap could have widened, but no pitch was counted. However, soon Sigismund Skučas struck from a distance, caused a foul, but lost the penalty – 6: 2.
Ignas Vaitkus also struck from distance, and the Qatari team continued to stumble, only Souley Ndour’s placement and effective attack reduced the difference – 4: 8. Lusail’s trio scored a triple (6: 9) and accumulated easy points under the basket, although three consecutive attacks by Juventus allowed him to escape again 13: 7.
Utena’s people also took over the balls, seized the opportunity and after I.Vaitkus’ long throws were not that far from the win – 19: 7. The remaining free Ž.Skučas secured the win – 21: 7 .
“Juventus”: Žygimantas Skučas 11, Ignas Vaitkus 8, Gintautas Matulis 2, Vytautas Šulskis 0.
„Lusail“: Souley Ndouras 5, Ousseynou Mbow 2, Kostas Vasileiadis 1, Hamza Maheras 0.
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