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JaunumiThe Third International Amateur Basketball League tournament ( IABL) in Druskininkai. An absolute Kaunas and Latvian teams predominance as well as a surprise from Russia![]() On 21 February , 2015 the third IABL tournament took place in a Lithuanian health resort Druskininkai. Although according to the previous agreement the tournament had to take place in Sankt Petersburgh, due to the existing unstable political situation, on the basis of the agreement among all the teams the decision was taken to hold the tournament in Druskininkai Lithuania. Kaunas basketball league provided Russians with assistance to organize the tournament by approving themselves once again as a perfect expert in the field of organizing such tournaments. There were 6 matches in the tournament. The first three took place in the gym of „Atgimimo“ gymnasium, the rest three took place in Druskininkai sport hall. The teams from Latvia and Belarus were the starters. It seems that Latvians arrived to this tournament with the strongest team ever in the course of four years. During the time of overall match Latvians made Belarus team to forget about the victory so the team from Latvia won the game in a result 96:66. As some important players were absent, the Belarus team had difficulties in the fight with the team from Latvia, the team really worth to be the winners. A team KKL from Kaunas, made of players from Sport Obsession, led by coaches Modestas Vaškūnas and Andrius Vaicekauskas and a formal tournament host Russian team were the second ones . For the third match the fight was between a team from Vilnius made on the basis of “Tegros“ and a guest team from Ukraine. Dainius Novickas scored 35 points for the winners, Roman Dmitrenko scored 22 points for the Ukrainians. Later on the tournament battles moved to a spacious Druskininkai sport hall. KKL and Belarus teams gave a trial to each other. Recently in the first IABL tournament, the mentioned both teams has already played a game once , where after a persistent fight the winning team was from Kaunas. During the match of the secont round, a fierce battle was expected as well, though this prognosis did not come true. Since the very first minutes from the start Kaunas team moved away from rivals at a blistering speed, where the result 65:21 has become overwhelming after two halfs. Belarus were helpless against powerful game of the oponents, who were successful in anything they do. After the break KKL team has reduced the speed and allowed Belarus team to reveal themselves more. The result was 117:66. Sergej Cises scored even 33 points for Russians,Robertas Bitinas – 26 points for Vilnius team. After the tournament Latvia and Kaunas are on the top of the tour match standing, sharing 1-2 positions, Vilnius and Ukraine stand for the 3-4 positions, and the last 5-6 positions share Russia and Belarus national teams.So we are looking forward to the most interesting events. Four matches of the regular season are left. Then it would be obvious who will fight against in a shoot-off match.
Here is a list of players rewarded as MVP: Andis Cirulis, a strategist of the Latvian national team was rewarded as the best coach, who gained two victories.. The next tournament, organised by Vilnius, takes place on 21 March in Kėdainiai sport hall, then on 9 or 16 May follows the Latvian tournament in Riga and the final tour is arranged on 13 June in Slovenia health resort Portoraže on the Adriatic coast with a presentation ceremony of the final awards. |