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 »
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Feed SubscriptionCCC Polkowice re-sign Belinda Snell
Polish champions CCC Polkowice have made official the re-signing of Australian guard Belinda Snell. Read More »
Lithuania routs Belarus, Poland defeats Ukraine in double-OT in first day of Niemodlin tourney
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 »
No Pawlak for Poland, no Baric for Slovenia in Eurobasket 2015 qualifiers
Two of the teams playing in EuroBasket Women 2015 qualifiers will be heading in to the tournament without some of their top players. Paulina Pawlak has been sidelined for Polish National Team due to back issues. That’s an injury that had her sidelined for stretches during the club season for Krakow. On the bright side for the Poles, they will ... Read More »
Fenerbahce re-sign Agnieszka Bibrzycka, Esmeral Tuncluer and Roberto Iniguez
Turkish champions Fenerbahce has announced they have re-signed Polish wing Agnieszka Bibrzycka and Turkish guard Esmeral Tuncluer and their head coach from Spain – Roberto Iniguez. Read More »
CCC Polkowice re-sign Valeriya Musina
Polish champions CCC Polkowice have announced the re-signing of Russian guard Valeriya Musina. Read More »
CCC Polkowice re-sign Agnieszka Majewska
Polish champions CCC Polkowice have announced they have re-signed their captain Agnieszka Majewska for the next two seasons. Read More »
Energa Torun re-sign Weronika Idczak
Polish league’s fourth placed team Energa Torun has re-signed Polish point guard Weronika Idczak for two years. Read More »
CCC Polkowice extend Magdalena Leciejewska
Polish champions CCC Polkowice have extended forward Magdalena Leciejewska for the upcoming season. Read More »
Polish U20 NT candidate list relaeased
Polish Basketball Federation has released a 16 candidate list for Polish U20 NT this summer. Led by head coach Iwona Jablonska, Poles will start preparations on May 30. In European U20 Championship, that will be held in Samsun, Turkey, Poland will play in group B with Spain, Slovak Republic and Greece. N. Last Name First Name Birthday Club Position Height ... Read More »
Stefan Svitek to coach Wisla Can-Pack next season
According to WislaKosz, Wisla Can-Pack president Ludwik Mietta-Mikolajewicz has confirmed that Stefan Svitek will be the new head coach of the Polish team next season. Read More »
CCC Polkowice – First Time Polish League Champions
CCC Polkowice capped their season that included a win in Polish Cup and a place in EuroLeague Women Final Eight with a sweep of Wisla Can-Pack in the Polish league finals. First half indicated this game would be no different than two of the previous three as Polkowice led by double digits for most part. Things changed after halftime. Erin ... Read More »
CCC Polkowice a step away from glory
CCC Polkowice are just one win short of sweeping last year’s champions Wisla Can-Pack in the Polish league finals best of seven series. Polkowice won the game at the start of second half. Starting it with 4 point lead they went on a 14-2 run. As has been the case several times this season Wisla Can-Pack were not able to fight ... Read More »
Video: Four unsportsmanlike fouls in Polish league finals second game
On Sunday it was a tough night for Wisla Can-Pack – they were outplayed by CCC Polkowice, going down 0-2 in the finals. They also could not calm down their emotions as they committed three dirty/stupid unsportsmanlike fouls (for Americans – it’s more or less the equivalent of Flagrant 1) during the game. First Erin Phillips gave Magdalena Leciejewska not ... Read More »
Convincing win for Polkowice to take a 2-0 lead against Krakow
The second game of the series was nothing like the first one. Read More »
Ogwumike hits the game winner as CCC Polkowice takes finals lead against Wisla Can-Pack
Nneka Ogwumike scored the game winner in transition with 9 seconds in regulation to give CCC Polkowice the win. Ogwumike initiated the transition with a rebound on a miss by Cristina Ouvina, passing it to Laia Palau who dished it off to Belinda Snell who found Ogwumike as she had ran the floor alone under the basket for the layup. ... Read More »
Round-Up: Fourth Round of Semifinals in Polish League – Krakow joins Polkowice in the finals
Wisla Can-Pack have set up Polish league finals series with the other ELW team CCC Polkowice after a third win over Artego Bydgoszcz. Krakow led against Artego with a double-digit lead for majority of the game which allowed them to rest up some players. that resulted in five players scoring in double-digits for Wisla with Anke de Mondt, Paulina Pawlak ... Read More »
Alana Beard, suffering from multiple injuries, unlikely to return for Polish league finals
After today’s game against Artego Bydgoszcz Wisla Can-Pack’s manager Piotr Dunin-Suligostowski revealed (via krakow.sport.pl) that their American guard Alana Beard is fighting multiple injuries which have already sidelined her for two months now. Read More »
Round-Up: Third Round of Semifinals in Polish League – Polkowice through to finals, Krakow a win away
CCC Polkowice is the first team to advance to the Polish league finals, while Wisla Can-Pack took a 2-1 lead in their series against Artego Bydgoszcz. Energa Torun looked to be on the road to at least taking one game for Polkowice after they lead for most of the game and even opened up a game-high 8 point lead in the ... Read More »
Round-Up: Second Round of Semifinals in Polish League
With Tina Charles scored 22 points and pulling down 13 rebounds and four other Wisla Can-Pack players contributing double-digit scoring Wisla Can-Pack pulled even with Artego Bydgoszcz in their semifinal series. Agnieszka Szott-Hejmej led Artego with 26 points. CCC Polkowice have gone ahead of Energa Torun 2-0 in the series. Belinda Snell scored 22 points in the win, going 6 ... Read More »
Round-Up: First Round of Semifinals in Polish League
Best of five Polish league semfiinal series started on Tuesday with Artego Bydgoszcz handing a loss to Wisla Can-Pack. Diminutive American guard Julie McBride led Artego with 23 points on 6 of 18 shooting, while Elzbieta Mowlik and Agnieszka Szott-Hejmej supported her efforts with 13 points apiece. Going 4 of 7 from behind the arc Katarzyna Krezel led Wisla with ... Read More »
Poland announce 16 candidate list for EuroBasket Women 2015 qualifiers
Polish Basketball Federation has released a 16 candidate list for Polish NT that head coach Jacek Winnicki has selected. After just missing out on EuroBasket Women 2013 berth due to only an unfavorable three way tie with Serbia and Montenegro, Poland is the top candidate to earn a place in EuroBasket Women 2015 this summer. Neither Bibrzycka nor Kobryn played ... Read More »
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