“Latvian University”On Tuesday in his“ Douglas ”Baltic Basketball League in the first duel of the season won a convincing victory against the BJBS“ Riga ”/” Juniores ”team in his field.
“University of Latvia” won “Jelgava” / BJSS at home with 86:51 (23: 9, 21:11, 16:11, 26:20).
Vanessa Jasa scored 16 points, 12 points and nine assists for Elizabete Bulāne, 11 points for Madeleine Ģērķe and Elīna Agnese Sičeva, and Anita Miķelsone scored ten points.
In the guest team, Luīze Anna Sila was the most productive with nine points, who also had ten rebounds, but Nikola Priede also scored 11 rebounds without seven points.
It has already been reported that on Saturday in the first match of the elite group “TTT Rīga” the guests won “Liepāja” / LSSS with 101:46 (24:10, 17:18, 34:11, 26: 7).
Meanwhile, in the Baltic League International Group “Jūrmala”, the guests played BJBS “Rīga” / “Juniores-2” with 59:55 (12:21, 20:12, 13:11, 14:12).
Ieva Elizabete Korzāne accumulated 20 points and six rebounds in favor of the winners, 13 points for Anastasia Chernova.
Samanta Gabranova and Madara Liepniece were the most productive with ten points.
Five Latvian teams will play in the Baltic League elite group: “TTT Rīga” (head coach Mārtiņš Gulbis), “Liepāja” / LSSS (Kaspars Mājenieks), RSU (Aivars Vīnbergs), BJBS “Rīga” / “Juniors” (Ainārs Čukste) and “ University of Latvia ”(Matīss Rožlapa).
Four Lithuanian teams (Vilnius “Kibirkštis-MRU”, Kaunas “Aistes-LSMU”, Šiauliai “Šiauliai” and Klaipėda “Neptūnas”), as well as two Estonian teams (“Tallinn University” and “University of Tartu”) have also entered the tournament.
The procedure for the Latvian championship at the end of the season will be decided at a meeting of club representatives.
As last year, Latvian and Estonian teams will play in the international group. Latvia will be represented by Daugavpils University (Nikolajs Romansenko), Jelgava / BJSS (Harijs Zelčs), Jūrmala (Andris Steļmahs) and Saldus / Sports School (Pēteris Višņēvičs), which started last year, as well as five new teams – BJBS “Riga” / ”Juniores-2” (Aigars Nerips), “Kandava” / “Anzāģe” (Roberts Rozentāls), “Diamond Academy” (Ilze Ose-Hlebovicka), “Hummingbirds” / LU (Mudīte Gūtmane), Ogre Basketball school (Edgars Ikstens) and Latvian U-16 national team (Andris Steļmahs).
In the 2018/2019 season, five Lithuanian, two Latvian and one Estonian teams participated in the Baltic Basketball League championship in the elite group, but in the 2019/2020 season – three Latvian, three Lithuanian and two Estonian teams. “TTT Riga” became the league’s two-time champions.
Since the autumn of 2019, the Baltic League has been supported by the perfume and cosmetics retail company Douglas Latvija.
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