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The team “Valmiera Glass”/”Vidzemes Augstskola” lost on Wednesday at home to the Lithuanian club “Šiauliai” in the fifth match of the season of the European Northern Basketball League (ENBL) with the result 77:104 (15:34, 16:21 , 21:23, 25:26) “.
Šons Seneka Naits scored 25 points, Guntis Sīpoliņš scored 12 points and Pauls Miglinieks added 11. Christopher Carlson had nine points and seven rebounds, while Marosh Zelizniak led the way with 12 rebounds.
Seven basketball players scored ten or more points for their opponents, but Paulius Danusevičs was the most productive with 19 points and eight rebounds. In group B, Valmieri is last in the eight-team group with five defeats in the same matches, while “Šiauliai” is in fourth place with a 3-1 record. 16 teams are participating in the third season of the ENBL, divided into two subgroups.
The top four teams from each group will qualify for the playoffs, where the teams will fight for a ticket to the Final Four tournament.
In the first season, in the eight-team tournament, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian club “Yenisej” from Krasnoyarsk and the Belarusian team “Borisfen” from Mogilev were excluded from the competition, two Latvian teams – “Liepāja” and ” Valmiera Glass”/”ViA”, “Final Four” took part in the tournament without qualifying. The victory went to the Polish team “Anwil” from Wloclawek, the Liepaja team took fifth place, and the Valmier team took sixth place in the main tournament.
Last season, in the 16-team tournament, Greater Poland Ostrava “Stal” became the winner, but the Valmierians, being the only Latvian team in the group, lost all seven matches.
2023-12-27 19:07:30
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