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“Ventspils” 3×3 basketball players do not enter the main tournament of the “Masters” stage of the World Tour

“Ventspils”, seeded 13th in the tournament, beat the Italian quartet “Venice” (14th) with a score of 21:13 in the first match of the qualification. After a short rest, the Latvians met the Romanian team “Constanta” (12th) and lost with the result 20:21.

In the first qualifying match, “Venice” won 21:20 against “Constanta” (12th), thus all three teams had one victory each, while the Latvians and Romanians had 41 points each. Since Constanta was the higher seed, it entered the main event.

In the first game, Greenberg and Apsītis scored six points each, while Feikner and Gunter had five and four points. In the second match, Feikner and Apsītis were the most productive with six points, Grīnbergs scored five points, and Günter scored three.

“Ventspils” won their ticket to the Útrecht tournament in August, when they beat Latvia’s leading team “Rīga” with 21:17 in the final of the Latvian 3×3 Basketball Cup, which included two of the four Olympic champions. Winners “Happy!” the team consisted of Apsītis, Feikners, Grīnbergs and Reinis Avotiņš.

Last weekend, “Riga” in the Olympic team failed in the semi-finals at the “Quest” level tournament in Hilversum, withdrawing from the fight for a ticket to the World Tour stage in Utrecht.

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