3×3: Challenger Tournament at Ventspils Decisive Battle Sunday Afternoon

28. And on July 29, Ventspils will host the FIBA ​​Challenger Series 3×3 Series for the first time in Latvia, where the teams will compete for a $ 20,000 prize pool and two tracks for the prestigious Masters in Lausanne (August 28-29). . The Venstpils Challenger tournament is attended by 16 teams from 8 countries, including four Latvian units. Latvia is also represented by the national team "Riga" (Agnis Čavars, Edgars Krūmiņš, Karlis Lasmanis, Nauris Miezis) who won this year two Challenger tournaments – in April in Nanjing in China and in June in Lipik in Slovenia . "(According to participants in the Ventspils tournament, it is already the Novi Sad unit.)

" Ghettto Games Venstpils Challenger "opened a qualifying tournament in which 6 teams competed for the last two places of the main tournament

The Latvian team "Grizinkalns Ghetto Fam" won the qualifying group A (13th, Andris Justovich, Linards Jaunzems, Werner Koht, Roberts Pāže), who received the Serbian team Novi Beograd Gakovi (number 10) and the Russian unit "Piter" (14.) on 21: 13.

Qualification Group B "Krāslava" (Latvia, 12. Arnis Bebrišs, Edgars Gribs , Artūrs Suhanovs, Aivars Stikuts) suffered two defeats – 10:13 against Vilnius Juz (Lithuania, 11.) and 10:11 against Bijmelmeer (Netherlands, 15.) The group "Marupe LSA" (Latvia, 8. Artūrs Kramins, Nils Ozoliņš, Armands Seņkāns, Toms Straudovskis) lost "Kaunas" (Lithuania 9) in group "A" (Lithuania, 9.) and on Saturday 12 games with Novi Sad (Serbia: 1.), who won the Lithuanians at 20:16