In the first Saturday “Pafbet” Latvian-Estonian Basketball League (LIBL) championship game, “Liepāja” won the “University of Latvia”.
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“Liepāja” beat the “University of Latvia” with 79:62 (22:11, 25:10, 20:22, 12:19).
Liepāja team was in the lead throughout the match and allowed to reduce the difference in the result only in the second half.
In favor of the winners 18 points and six rebounds for Guntis Sīpoliņš, 16 points for Dāvis Geks, 15 points and nine assists, but also six errors for Renārs Birkāns, but four points and ten rebounds for Iļjs Gromovs.
Edvards Mežulis stood out with 17 points among the guests, who also varied the composition widely.
“Liepāja” won the first round of the game in an intense battle with 83:82.
The teams of “Ventspils” and “Ogres”, as well as “Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University College” and “VEF Riga” will meet on Saturday.
In the Latvian team table, the leader with seven wins in seven games is “VEF Rīga”, further with six successes in seven duels is “Ventspils”, the third with three wins in six matches is “Ogre”, but the fourth with three wins in eight games is “Liepāja”.
Two successes in six battles are “Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University College”, but the last one with eight lost matches is “University of Latvia”.
It has already been reported that in the main tournament, team matches will be played only within their countries. Initially, it was planned that from October 3 to December 5, 30 games will take place between Latvian teams, while seven Estonian teams will also play their mini-tournaments.
Given the rapid spread of Covid-19, it has been decided that the main tournament will be played in two separate groups – Estonia and Latvia – with a four-round tournament in each of them.
There are still discussions about how the playoffs will be played.
In the main tournament of the third season of LIBL, 13 teams were scheduled to play a two-round tournament, which would be followed by a playoffs – a quarter-final series and a “Final Four” tournament.
13 teams – six Latvian units – “VEF Rīga”, “Ogre”, “Ventspils”, “Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University College”, “University of Latvia” and “Liepāja” participate in the LIBL championship in the 2020/21 season, as also seven Estonian teams – Tallinn “Kalev” / “Cramo”, Rapla “Avis Utilitas”, “Parnu Sadam”, “University of Tartu”, Rakvere “Tarvas”, Tallinn “Kalev” / TLU and “TalTech”.
In the first Latvian-Estonian joint league tournament in the 2018/2019 season, Ventspils won 15 teams in both the main tournament and the Final 4, but the 2019/2020 season remained unfinished, ranking first in the main tournament, which was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. occupying “VEF Rīga”, the second – “Ogrei”, the third – Tallinn Kalev “/” Cramo “and the fourth -” Ventspils “.
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