2024-07-11 12:26:35
Mūsiškės lost 40:76 (15:22, 9:26, 7:16, 9:12) against the Spanish basketball players who won the European 18-year-old championship two years ago. The Spanish women will continue the fight for medals, while our women will fight for the 9-16 places in the European Championship.
Lithuania started the first half with a score of 0:14, but our team did not give up and then won the score 15:7 and after the first 10 minutes of the game, they trailed the Spaniards by a single digit difference (15:22).
The students of V.Stanišauskas also started the second quarter with a bad spurt, which continued throughout the second half. Mūsiškės at one point lost the second half by 2:25 (17:47). The Lithuanians played a bit better at the end of the second half, which they won 7:2, but the missed spurt before that led to the fact that the Lithuanians went into the long break defeated (24:48).
The same scenario continued to play out in the third quarter. Mūsiškės lost at one point in the third quarter by 3:12 (27:60), and finally, after thirty minutes of playing time, the Lithuanian U20 girls’ national team coached by V.Stanišauskas trailed by 33 points (31:64).
The decisive half was just a formality, which ended the Lithuanian march towards the medals in the European Championship (40:76).
Forward Gerda Raulušaitytė played the most useful for the Lithuanians, who scored 9 points (2/7 doubles, 5/5 penalties), rebounded 8 balls and accumulated 10 utility points in 30.5 minutes on the court.
Danguolė Pupkevičiūtė was the most productive player in our team, who scored 18 points in 30 minutes (5/10 doubles, 2/5 triples, 2/2 penalties). True, the defender made 12 mistakes and finished the match with only 3 utility points.
Marina Asensio led the Spanish to victory. The basketball player scored 15 points (5/9 treys) and accumulated the same number of utility points.
We remind you that in the group stage, Lithuanians lost to Latvians, French and Slovenians.
Lithuania: Danguolė Pupkevičiūtė 18, Gerda Raulušaitytė 9, Sintija Aukštikalnytė 5 (1/7 doubles, 0/5 triples, 3/4 penalties, 5 rebounds, 3 assists).
Spain: Marina Asensio 15, Elena Buenavida (2/6 dvit., 1/2 trit., 2/4 baud., 5 rez. perd., 7 per. kam., 15 naud. bal.) ir Noa Morro (3/6 dvit., 3/3 baud., 5 atk. kam.) po 9, Carla Brito (3/6 dvit., 2/3 baud., 7 atk. kam., 4 per. kam., 14 naud. bal. ), Alicia Florez (4/6 dvit., 0/1 trit., 4 rez. perd., 5 per. kam., 14 naud. bal.) ir Irene Broncano (2/2 dvit., 1/4 trit. , 1/1 baud.) po 8.
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