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LIBL leader “VEF Rīga” defeats “Ventspils” – Basketball – Apollo.lv – Sports

“VEF Rīga” won “Ventspils” with 96:93 (33:22, 27:30, 22:19, 14:22).

Absolutely all the fights were led by Rigans, but the guests were always able to approach the result again, reaching three points in the finish.

Aigars Skele had 21 points, 16 – Marc Vitols, 13 points and seven rebounds – Alexander Madsen, and ten points each – Arnold Helman and Aizi Pinjeiro.

An excellent game for Māris Gulbis, who provoked the violation of the rules to his opponents ten times without 31 points, then threw 12 out of 17 free throws.

In the ranks of the guests there are 23 points, six rebounds and four assists, but also six errors for Arthur Auss, 18 points for Kemeron Randls, and ten points and six rebounds for Christopher Coff.

“Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University College” and “Liepāja” will play on Saturday.

On Sunday, the “University of Latvia” in Riga will fight with “Ogre”.

From October 3 to December 5, 30 games between Latvian teams are planned. Meanwhile, seven Estonian teams will also play their mini-tournaments.

In the main tournament of the third season of LIBL, 13 teams are planned to play a two-round tournament, after which there will be playoffs – a quarter-final series and a “Final Four” tournament.

13 teams – six Latvian units – “VEF Rīga”, “Ogre”, “Ventspils”, “Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University College”, “University of Latvia” and “Liepāja” will take part in the LIBL championship in the 2020/21 season, as also seven Estonian teams – Tallinn “Kalev” / “Cramo”, Rapla “Avis Utilitas”, “Parnu Sadam”, “University of Tartu”, Rakvere “Tarvas”, Tallinn “Kalev” / TLU and “TalTech”.

In the first Latvian-Estonian joint league tournament in the 2018/2019 season, “Ventspils” won the competition of 15 teams in both the main tournament and the Final 4, but the 2019/2020 season remained unfinished, first place in the main tournament suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic occupying “VEF Rīga”, the second – “Ogrei”, the third – “Kalev” / “Cramo” and the fourth – “Ventspils”.

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