Serbia defeated Latvia to advance to the second round as the third team from Group C. With the stakes this game had, both teams played nervously and without any confidence. As a result game between both teams was very poorly executed with many missed open shots. Serbia was 3 of 14 from behind the arc, Latvia 1 of 18. Serbia ... Read More »
Great Britain literally rebounded to advance to the second round. Two weeks after both teams were even on the boards, the shortest team of the tournament were dominated on the boards by the second shortest team in the tournament. Britain opened a six point lead in the first quarter, extended it to 11 points in the second quarter before Latvia ... Read More »
Serbia was outscored 9-24 in the final quarter as they fell to a British side that was fighting with foul trouble throughout the game. Britain held a narrow lead through the first half, but it looked far from comfortable for them – Kim Butler and Chantele Handy both got into foul trouble with 3 fouls for each in the first ... Read More »
Russian club Dynamo Kursk has signed American power forward Rebekkah Brunson, Serbian forward Jelena Milovanovic, Israeli guard Shay Doron and Russia guards Elena Volkova and Maria Khrustaleva, team’s manager Denis Lunin has confirmed to DDD Kursk. American forward Brunson will be back in Russia for her third stint – she previously has played for Dynamo Moscow and Nadezhda Orenburg. Last ... Read More »
We are starting off the previews for the upcoming EuroBasket Women tournament with Group C – the first group in which all four teams have already announced their rosters for the upcoming tournament. France Hosts of the tournament. In many people’s eyes they are the favorites to win the tournament. But first they have to survive the potential beat down ... Read More »
Hungarian club has announced the signings of American guard Samantha MacKay, Serbian wing Milica Ivanovic and Serbian forward Natasa Kovacevic. Read More »
Serbian head coach Marina Maljkovic has announced the National Team roster for the upcoming EuroBasket Women tournament. Final two cuts for Serbia were Tijana Ajdukovic and Aleksandra Crvendakic. Both of them are still young – Crvendakic is seventeen, Ajdukovic just turned 22. Serbia will play in Group C with the hosts France, Latvia and Great Britain. Serbian 2013 roster: Player ... Read More »
European bronze medalists Serbians have started their preparations for U19 World Championship under the head coach Zoran Kovacic. Unfortunately he will have to work with a depleted roster as Aleksandra Stanacev, Natasa Kovacevic, Kristina Topuzovic and Aleksandra Crvendakic will not be available to start the preparations. Stanacev, Kovacevic and Topuzovic are with U20 NT whose continental championship will end a couple of days ... Read More »
Belarus triumphed in Khalipski Cup with a win over Ukraine. Serbia finished third after defeating Italy. Serbia appeared to be in total control of their game against Italy. They led by 22 points in the third quarter. But they let up in the fourth quarter, allowing Italy to climb back in the game by outscoring Serbia 20-4 to trail by ... Read More »
The hosts of Khalipski Cup, Belarus, and Ukraine were victorious in the second day of the tournament. Ukraine rallied from being six points down within the last four minutes of regulation to go 2-0 in the tournament. Ukraine fell 11 point behind Serbia several times during the first half. They began the second half with a 15-0 run to re-take ... Read More »
Ukraine ran out to a 32-13 lead in the second quarter and held on to overcome Italian attempts at comebacks in that game. Alina Iagupova and Inna Kochubei led Ukraine with 15 points each. 20 year old Francesca Dotto was top Italian scorer with 14 points. In the other game Belarus overcame several runs by Serbia to claim their win. ... Read More »
After two routs yesterday both games in the final day ended up as one possession games. Italy led by 7 points in the final quarter but waisted their lead in the final minutes as they were not able to hit freethrows (missed their last four attempts). Tamara Tatham meanwhile put the Canadians ahead with 10 seconds to go. Benadetta Bagnara ... Read More »
Montenegro rebounded from the beating they took from Italy by routing Canada. Serbian neighbors won the game in the first quarter as they went on a 19-0 run. In the second quarter their lead reached 24 points which was too much for Canada to overcome. Snezana Aleksic led Montenegro with 19 points, Jelena Dubljevic had 13. Justine Colley led all ... Read More »
After a close first 27 minutes of the game, Italy pulled away from Montenegro, outscoring them 26-11 in the final 13 minutes of the game. Giorgia Sottana led Italy with 10 points. 8 for Kathrin Ress and Valeria Battisodo. 11 of 12 Italian players scored. The same can’t be said for Montenegro who had only 5 of 12 scoring. Jelena ... Read More »
Hungarian club PEAC Pecs has announced the signing of 23 year old Serbian wing Sanja Orozovic to a 2+1 year contract. Read More »
Serbian NT head coach Marina Maljkovic has announced two cuts from the team before Belgrade Trophy 2013 tournament. Those cuts are wings Maja Skoric and Adrijana Knezevic. Meanwhile there have been no indications of Sonja Petrovic making her return to the NT after three year absence. She was cut more than a week ago by Chicago Sky. Russians have finished ... Read More »
Stef Collins hit a game tying freethrow to force overtime in which Britain would prevail against Germany. Steph Gandy led Great Britain with 17 points. Anne Breitreiner had 19 points for Germany. Serbia defeated Sweden in a closely fought game. Jovana Rad led Serbia with 14 points, Milica Dabovic had 12 points, Ana Dabovic – 9. Frida Eldebrink led Sweden ... Read More »
Serbian Basketball Federation has named a list of 17 players who will be preparing for U20 European Championship, played in Samsun, Turkey. Serbians are bringing back eight players from their last year’s U20 team that was hit by food poisoning and thus finished outside of quarterfinals. In preparations the Serbians will play against Greece three times, against Italy twice and ... Read More »
Croatia routed Netherlands in their first pre-tournament game. The hosts set the tone early in the first quarter, winning it 33:10. Read More »
Czech Republic and Serbia have extended their winning streaks to two wins in two days. Serbia, after getting first win the year yesterday, defeated Slovak Republic to whom they lost on Monday. Serbians outscored the Slovaks by 10 points in the second and in the third quarters, building an 18 point lead. Jovana Rad led Serbia with 13 points, Jelena ... Read More »
Serbian NT won their first pretournament game in four tries by the defeating Belgium, who won’t be playing in EuroBasket Women 2013. In their fourth pretournament game thus far, Serbia ran out to a 14 point lead at halftime and held on to it in the second half. Jelena Milovanovic led Serbia with 19 points, Bojana Vulic, Jovana Popovic and ... Read More »
France posted third rout of Italy in as many games. France pulled away from Italy with a 13-0 run to end the first quarter. By the fourth quarter their lead reached 33 points. Sandrine Gruda led France this time with 19 points, Endene Miyem had 17 points. Francesca Dotto was the top Italian player with 9 points. Serbia lost the ... Read More »
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