2024-04-06 08:01:27
For convincing victories, everyone exchanged BK on their own field Ventspils and Tartu University basketball players, whose duel is the only one in the Latvian-Estonian combined league (LatEst) in the quarterfinals with the need to play the deciding game of the series. Current title holder Prometheus beat BK in the second game on Wednesday Ogre (90:82), securing the semi-final against VEF Rigawhich one of the leaders, Jaizek Lotti, will not be able to help in the rest of the season due to an injury.
After the crushing victory of the Ventspils team in the first game in Kurzeme, the second game of the quarter-finals started in a much more intense manner. The driving force of the Tartu team in the first quarter was the Latvian center Dāvis Rozītis, whose productivity allowed the home team led by Gundaras Vētras to maintain a slight advantage. After several management changes at the beginning of the second quarter, the Estonians made the first big breakthrough with the success of the leaders Marta Rosenthal and Rinald Mālmans in the attack. Although the home team had a seemingly small ten-point advantage before the last quarter, another breakthrough allowed the Tartu team to wait for the end of the game without much trouble. Ventspils players, who usually play very effectively, lost to Tartu with 69:82. Rosenthals scored 24 points for the winners, Rozītis – 18 points, and Mālmanis’ best +/– coefficient in the game was +20. BK Ventspils the accuracy of long shots was disappointing – only five of 24 three-pointers were hit. In the series up to two victories, the decisive match will take place in Ventspils on Friday.
The winner of the pair is already waiting for the Estonian champion and the winner of the main tournament, Tallinn Kalev/Cramowhich dealt with Pärnu in two games port.
In the second semi-final pair VEF Riga will compete with the one based in the capital of Latvia Prometheus. The Ukrainian club took the lead in Ogre at the beginning of the second quarter and did not give it back until the final siren. to the Vephes before the difficult semi-final, unpleasant news from the team’s doctors, because in the second game of the quarter-final against for Riga medicines American linebacker Jaizek Lotti suffered a torn abdominal muscle and will not be able to play for about half a year. This means that the season in Latvia has already ended for him, but only nine players remain in the rotation of the Latvian champions.
In the meantime, the people of Ogre must prepare for the quarterfinals of the Latvian Basketball League, where they will have to play against BK already next week Liepaja.
2024-04-06 08:01:27