{"id":1419,"date":"2015-06-19T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2015-06-19T22:13:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:13:03","slug":"m40-small-planet-completes-clean-sweep-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/2015\/06\/19\/m40-small-planet-completes-clean-sweep-for-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"M40: Small Planet complete clean sweep for gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <strong>Small Planet<\/strong> was the only team in the M40 category and a first place finish was nothing but a sure thing, the Lithuanian side swept through their opponents from M45 category to maintain a clean record at 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>The team from Vilnius registered a <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/game\/?game_id=3070227&amp;season_id=90929&amp;leagueId=29859\"><strong>103-83<\/strong> <\/a>victory against <strong>Musson<\/strong>, the only other previously undefeated team in the M40\/45 competition.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the second period, Small Planet were leading merely by a point at 35-34, but a 16-5 run to finish the half allowed the Lithuanians to pull away.<\/p>\n<p>The second half was relatively easy for the pre-game favorites, who cruised to a 20-point win with <strong>Virginijus Sirvydis<\/strong> leading the way with 32 points and nine rebounds. <strong>Erikas Kuciauskas<\/strong> had 21 points and 12 boards, while <strong>Egidijus Mikalajunas<\/strong> chipped in with 16 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valerii Iaichun<\/strong> had a tournament-high 45 points for Musson, but it wasn\u2019t enough to save the side from defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The trophy was presented to the M40 champions Small Planet by Gloria Hotels and Resorts Sales Executive <strong>Samet Eyraman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginijus Sirvydis<\/strong> was chosen as the MVP of the M40 category. He averaged 20 points and 6.6 rebounds per game in the championship, with an average efficiency of 23.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of other categories will be determined on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Small Planet was the only team in the M40 category and a first place finish was nothing but a sure thing, the Lithuanian side swept through their opponents from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}