Latvian basketball players Mareks Mejeris and Artūrs Strautiņš scored 12 and seven points respectively on Tuesday in the second games of the Italian A-Series knockout tournament, with the teams they represent suffering losses.
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The Pesaro “Carpegna Prosciutto”, represented by Meier and headed by the head coach of the Latvian national team Lukas Banki, lost to the current champion “Virtus Segafredo” of Bologna at 51:70 (13:12, 12:19, 13:16, 13:23). In the series up to three victories with a 2-0 lead is “Virtus Segafredo”.
Meier played for 26 minutes, taking three of four two-point shots and two of three long shots, winning five balls under the baskets, passing once, intercepting the ball once, making four mistakes, violating the rules once, provoking an efficiency factor of 13 and +/- indicator -5.
The 12-point master became the most successful player in the match.
Rego Emilija “UnaHotels”, represented by Strautiņa, gave up the Milan “A | X Armani Exchange” with 65:91 (14:27, 18:30, 13:21, 20:13) and drove 0-2 in the series.
Strautiņš took one of four two-point shots and all five free throws in 22 minutes, but did not hit any of the four long shots. He also had four rebounds, two assists, three remarks, three provoked violations, an efficiency ratio of six and a +/- score of -7.
Artyom Butyankov was not included in the guest team application.
Andrea Chicharini scored 19 points for the guests and 16 points and five rebounds for Luigi Datome.
The Allianz from Trieste, as well as the Vanoli team from Cremona, represented by Werner Kohs, did not enter the playoffs.
Reggio Emilia’s team with 15 wins in 30 games took seventh place in the tournament table, while Pesaro’s team was the eighth with 14 successes, followed by the Trieste club with the same balance. The Cremona basketball players with a balance of 8-22 were 16th and finished the season in the last place, leaving the top league.
Last season, Bologna “Virtus” became the champion of Italy.
