The regular tournament ended with only one loss in 14 matches, while “East-Ball/RTDP” won six victories in 14 matches.
In the first match of the round of 16, our team defeated their opponents 83:63. Last Saturday, the second game took place in Riga, where the hosts took revenge with 89:63 (24:14, 24:16, 20:14, 21:19).
The result in the series became 1:1, and the next day both teams played the decisive match in Nice.
In the first half, the home team scored 14-0 after less than four minutes, but after a while Kurzemin took the lead with 23-8.
In the second half, the people of Nicaea squandered the advantage and unexpectedly conceded 71:89 (23:13, 16:19, 20:28, 12:29).
“East-Ball/RTDP” won the series up to two victories with 2:1 and entered the quarter-finals, where they will compete with “Salaspils Sporta Skola”.
BK “Liepāja/LSSS” ended the regular tournament of “Ramirent” National Basketball League with two losses.
First, the Liepāja team lost to BK “Saldus” 66:91 (18:28, 16:22, 22:20, 10:21) at home, but then they will visit the visitors with 74:84 (22:24, 21:30, 12:24 , 19:6) yielded to “Kandava/Angāsa”.
Frederiks Meinarts scored 17 points in the match against the Saldenians, while Raivo Cālītis scored 19 points in Kandava.
These losses did not affect Liepāja’s position in the West Zone tournament table, and our team finished in 8th place, which gives a ticket to the playoffs.
After losing the opportunity to participate in the playoffs, the “Grobina” team poured its sports fury on BK “Talsi”, defeating the Northern Kurzeme team 127:54 (34:16, 27:20, 33:10, 33:8).
Six players scored at least ten points for Grobiņien, but Niks Lagzdiņš was the most productive with 33 points.
After defeating the Talseniks storks faced the resistance of BA “Turība” and conceded with 88:98 (18:28, 15:35, 27:12, 28:23).
“Grobiņa” will play the last match of the regular tournament on February 21 at home against BK “Ķekava”.
