In a game for the second place in the tournament Lithuania defeated Ukraine. 25-9 first quarter was crucial for the Lithuanians as they did not allow Ukraine to get much closer the rest of the way. Mante Kvederaviciute led Lithuania with 14 points, Egle Siksniute had 11. Alina Iagupova led Ukraine with 19 points. Belarus win over Poland didn’t change ... Read More »
Ukraine bounced back from yesterday’s double overtime loss to Poland by narrowly edging Belarus in the second day of Niemodlin “Golden Falcon” tournament. Playing without Yelena Leuchanka and the still absent Verameyenka, lost out in a closely fought game. Ekaterina Snytsina led Belarus with 16 points. Katerina Dorogobuzova was the leading scorer with 13 points, Alina Iagupova had 12. Hosts ... Read More »
International friendlies will be picking up this weekend, starting with today as tournament in Polish city Niemodlin started. In the first game Lithuania held Belarus to 37 points for a 21 point win. Likely reason for such disparity between the teams was due to Lithuania flying to Poland, while Belarus went there from their camp in Lithuania with a bus, ... Read More »
French club Charleville-Mezieres has signed Lithuanian power forward Giedre Paugaite, the player confirmed to delfi.lt. Read More »
Lithuanian National Team has finished the first phase of preparations and is about to leave for Poland where they will play in a four team tournament. Not a part of the team in that phase and not expected to be with them over weekend is guard Ausra Bimbaite. There doesn’t seem to be a date set for when Bimbaite could ... Read More »
Algirdas Paulauskas has named 17 candidates for what appears to be a young Lithuanian National Team. Of the 17 players only four (Zemantauskaite, Bimbaite, Vengryte and Salkauske) will be older than 24 years this year and even most of them aren’t guaranteed to make the roster. Seven of the players from this roster were on the gold medal winning Lithuanian ... Read More »
After a two season break the Lithuanian title returned to Vilnius as Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI defeated Hoptrans Sirenos in the third game of the series. After TEO Vilnius moved to Kaunas in the summer of 2010 so did their domestic successes. After VICI Aistes Kaunas folded last summer, Kibirkstis used the opportunity to re-claim the title for the Lithuanian capital. The third ... Read More »
Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI came out strong after the halftime to down Hoptrans-Sirenos. The score was tied at halftime. Kibirkstis won the last two quarters with identical scores – 20-9. Veteran guard Rima Valentiene led Kibirkstis with 18 points, Lina Pikciute had 13 points and 7 rebounds. Egle Taraseviciute led Sirenos with 12 points. Kibirkstis can clinch the title on Thursday at home. Hoptrans-Sirenos - Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI ... Read More »
Olimpia claimed their second title of the week as they triumphed in the Baltic league. In the final Olimpia cruised past Horizont quite comfortably with a 25 point margin. Maria Papova led Olimpia with 21 points and 10 rebounds, Tatiana Shchypakina had 16 points in the win. Olimpia got to the final in a dramatic fashion as Nadezhda Drozd made ... Read More »
Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI cruised to victory in the first game of the Lithuanian league finals. The outcome of the game was never in question as Kibirkstis were in total control of the game. They held Sirenos to 8 points in the first quarter and 4 points in the final quarter. Mante Kvederaviciute and Vita Kuktiene each notched 15 points for Kibirkstis. Egle ... Read More »
Hoptrans-Sirenos will be joining Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI in the Lithuanian league finals. Sirenos won their deciding third game of the semifinal series against Fortuna. During the game Sirenos led by 16 points – a lead they immediately lost after allowing 18-2 run for their opponents. In the final quarter Fortuna had a slim lead until they went scoreless in the final three ... Read More »
Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI was the first team to clinch Lithuanian league finals where they’ll wait for the winner of the third game between Fortuna and Hoptrans-Sirenos. Extending their lead to 29 points after just 12 minutes played Kibirkstis removed any questions about their series, if there were any to begin with. Veteran Vita Kuktiene led Kibirkstis with 13 points, with Lina Pikciute ... Read More »
Janice Council made two freethrows in the final minute, Monika Grigalauskyte scored after a miss by Salkauske to give Fortune a four point lead. All that Sirenos could do is make a three pointer in the final seconds and get the deficit down to one. Council was the game’s leading scorer with 29 of her team’s 69 points. Rasa Zemantauskaite-Matlasaitiene ... Read More »
Fortuna and Aistes-LSU finished off their quarterfinal sweeps and advanced to the Lithuanian league semifinals. Tatiana Likhtarovich and Janice Council each had 24 points in the win for Fortuna. Lidziya Panasiuk tied the game for Ruta at the end of regulation to force OT, but Fortuna controlled the game in the extra frame. Fortuna missed just two field goals in ... Read More »
Lithuanian league has entered playoff phase with quarterfinal series between the teams that finished third to sixth in the standings, where the winners of these best of three series will meet the regular season’s top two squads – Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI and Hoptrans-Sirenos. Fortuna needed two overtimes to down the sixth ranked Ruta-Universitetas. 19Lithuanian forward Ieva Kazlauskaite tied the game for Ruta ... Read More »
Lithuanian club Kibirkstis-VICI-IKI has claimed the Lithuanian Cup title with a 66-58 win against Hoptrans-Sirenos. With the final being tied at halftime, an 18-8 third quarter was the decisive one for Kibirkstis as they held off Sirenos in the final one. Top scorer for Kibirkstis in the both final four games was guard Mante Kvedaraviciute. In the final she scored 21 ... Read More »
On Monday FIBA Basketball Arbitral Tribunal published a new batch of awards, 5 of them involving women’s basketball players. By far the ugliest one of the five was Iveta Salkauske vs Good Angels Kosice. Kosice contended that Salkauske arrived to the club out of shape and embellished some ailments. Considering the team did do any medical/physical/fitness evaluation there was no way they ... Read More »
Lithuanian coach Algirdas Paulauskas has confirmed to basketnews.lt that he will take over Nadezhda Orenburg until the end of the season. Read More »
After being eliminated from EuroCup Women, Russian club Dynamo Kursk has announced that they have extended head coach Alfredas Vainauskas two more seasons. Read More »
Russian Basketball Federation’s Executive Committee has confirmed today that Lithuanian coach Alfredas Vainauskas will oversee the Russian National Team the next four years. Vainauskas currently coaches Dynamo Kursk who are in the EuroCup Women quarterfinals and are currently second in Russian Premiere League behind UMMC Ekaterinburg. Last season he coached Kursk to a triumph in EuroCup Women. He is in ... Read More »
Recently named best Lithuanian basketball player of 2012 Sandra Linkeviciene talked to 15min.lt about the voting and her current situation. Read More »
Lithuanian guard Sandra Linkeviciene was named the best Lithuanian women’s basketball player in 2012 by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation in cooperation with news portal delfi.lt who held a fan voting. Read More »
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