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The Latvian team (1-4) will not play in the 2022 European Championship.
Latvia National Team / Calendar
Robert Štelmaher’s students in Riga 65:66 (17:15, 23:21, 19:15, 6:15) lost to Bulgaria (2-3) and lost even theoretical hopes of entering the main event.
The Bulgarians also won the first mutual match 110: 104, so after gaining a mutual advantage, they secured a place in the European championship.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Latvians got the required 7-point lead after throwing Aigaras Škėlė – 61:54.
Still, at that moment Pavlin Ivanov scored two triples in a row, Chavdav Kostov added another long shot, and 3 minutes later the Bulgarians went ahead – 63:62.
Rihards Lomažs hit the colon and again weighed the result in favor of the Latvians, but Dee Bostas hit a difficult 3-point and put Bulgaria ahead again with a minute and a half to go (66:65).
As time has shown, these were the last points of the match. Mareks Mejer made a spectacular save and in the 11th minute Freimainius came to the rescue and stopped the attack.
Alexander Yanev missed both fines, but Škėlė’s launch with the siren did not reach the goal and the final siren declared the triumph of Bulgaria.
In this window, Latvians received the help of the country’s brightest stars in Europe – Janis Timma and Dairis Bertanis.
Timma, who scored the most results, scored 14 points (4/6 dvit., 2/6 trit.) In 22 minutes, 3 interceptions and 2 rebounds, 1 assists, 5 errors and 9 utility points.
Bertans added 4 points (0/3 double, 1/3 trit, 1/2 penalty), 4 assists, 3 rebounds and 1 interception and 6 utility points.
Former Dee Bostas from Žalgiris played first violin for the Bulgarian national team. The defender scored 18 points (2/5 doubles, 4/9 trit., 2/3 penalty) in 27 minutes, bounced 4 and took 1 ball, made 4 assists, made a mistake and scored 17 utility points.
Latvia national team: Janis Timma 14 (4/6 diat., 2/6 trit.), Mareks Mejeris (8 reb.
Bulgarian national team: Dee Bostas 18 (2/5 diat., 4/9 trit.), Pavlin Ivanov 15 (5/7 trit.), Dimitar Dimitrov 12 (4/10 dvit., 1/4 trit.), Chavdar Kostov 11.
Group H standings:
Record of the Latvian basketball federation after the failure of Bulgaria:
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