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The FIBA Poitiers Challenger 3×3 men’s basketball tournament with three Lithuanian teams ends in France on Saturday
Šakiai “Vytis-Gulbelė” in the failed quarter-final match 17:13 beat Lausanne Sport (Switzerland). Meanwhile, Utena’s Uniclub played much more effectively and ended their match early. 22:17 Defeat Nantes (France) basketball players backed by local fans.
The Lithuanian club derby between Vytis-Gulbelė and Uniclub took place in the semi-finals. In a very tense match, both teams were far from the 21 point. In the last minute, the Šakiai club had a minimal advantage (12:11), but then Utena’s team scored two long shots and took a dramatic victory – 15:12.
Final “Uniclub” 18:20 lost the thriller against the Antwerp team of Belgium, represented by many basketball players who won the place of the national team at the Tokyo Olympics. The last seconds of the game were very tense. The Utensians defended successfully, lagging 18:20, but after an inaccurate throw from the opponents, they could not recover the ball and broke the rules. Uniclub had already exceeded the limit, so the Belgians issued 2 fines. Antwerp only had to hit once and the match would end, but the Belgian missed both shots. Uniclub recovered the ball and had to start extra time for 6 seconds, but managed to make a mistake by throwing the ball towards the long throw line. Afterwards, the Belgians “burned” the rest of the time and celebrated the victory.
“Vytis-Gulbelė” won both matches on Friday and became the winner of Group B. Uniclub finished Group C without losing. There also played Kaunas “Tauras”, who passed the classification, but after two failures did not enter the playoffs.
Šakiai was represented by Vytis-Gulbele Darius tarvydas, Šarūnas Vingelis, Aurelijus Pukelis Y Marijus Užupis, and the Utena Uniclub tournament was greeted with a modified composition, along with the old Gintautas Matulis Y Vytautas Šulskis United Ignas Razutis Y Races Deividas. Defended the honor of Kaunas Taurus Paulius Semema, Šarūnas Beniušis, Modest Kumpys Y Sigismund Shimonis.
Both finalists of the tournament received tickets to the FIBA Masters series tournament, one of the stages of the 2021 World Tour, and the teams that took 1-4 places also shared 35 thousand. Dollar prize fund. Uniclub received 10,000. USD and Vytis-Gulbele received $ 6,000. Check in USD.
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