Latvian basketball player Artūrs Strautiņš scored 15 points on Sunday and Ingus Jakovičs added eight points in the Italian Super Cup game, celebrating the victory of his representative Varese “Openjobmetis”.
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Varese basketball players beat Brescia’s “Germani” team in the last game of subgroup A with the result 102: 100 (33:29, 17:24, 32:30, 20:17).
Strautiņš spent 24 minutes and 40 seconds on the court, during which four out of five two-point throws, one of two “threes” and four of six free throws were broadcast in the basket. He also won six rebounds, made two assists, made one mistake, broke the rules three times, provoked seven remarks and scored 22 efficiency points, the second best in the team.
Meanwhile, Jakovich played for 11 minutes and 14 seconds, realizing his only two-point shot and all three “penalties”, as well as one of two long shots. He also scored twice, intercepted one ball, scored three notes, provoked two fouls and scored nine efficiency points.
The most successful team in Varese with 27 points, seven rebounds and seven provocative notes was Lewis School.
The unit represented by Latvians won two games in six games and took third place in its subgroup.
Meanwhile Jānis Blūms scored one point while his team of Reggio di Emilia “Unahotels” in Group B game with a score of 72:74 (18:17, 9:22, 25:19, 20:16) conceded to the Bologna “Virtus Segafredo” team.
Bloom played for 13 minutes and nine seconds, during which he took one of two free throws, but did not hit his only “throne”. He also has one rebounded ball, one intercepted ball, two errors, one note and two provoked violations.
The unit represented by Bloom took second place in the group with three victories in six games.
On Monday, Andrejs Gražulis, who will be represented by Trieste “Allianz”, will play the last game of the subgroup as the only Latvian in the semifinals.
All 16 teams are participating in the Italian Super Cup, which plans to start in the A series of the local championship this season. The teams are divided into four groups, but after the group tournament there will be semi-finals, for which the winner of each group will qualify.
The “Final Four” tournament will be played from September 18 to 20.
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