{"id":877,"date":"2016-09-03T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T11:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/?p=877"},"modified":"2016-09-04T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T19:54:13","slug":"day-2-mens-games-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/2016\/09\/03\/day-2-mens-games-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: Men&#8217;s games &#8211; morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wet weather in Liepaja overnight didn\u2019t dampen the players\u2019 spirits as the games continued at the Liepaja Olympic Centre on the <strong>second<\/strong> <strong>day<\/strong> of the Baltic Cup 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The first game on the second day was in the M65 age category, where <strong>Tukums<\/strong> showed their superiority in the game against Sameko taking out the victory 59:25 and securing 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place in the Cup. <strong>Arvids Drikis<\/strong> had another good game with 11 points and 5 rebounds, assisted by <strong>Viktors Kaktins<\/strong> with 11 points and 4 rebounds. <strong>Ilmar Kuut<\/strong> dominated the boards with 11 rebounds to add to his 12 points for the Estonians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ranga<\/strong> eventually ran away with 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place in the M60 age category against \u0136ekava after being up by only 2 points at half time, with the final scores being 67:39. <strong>Algirdas Linge<\/strong> with 16 points was top scorer for the winners with 3 others scoring over 10 points for the Lithuanians. <strong>Gunars Lazda<\/strong> put in a fine effort, to no avail for the Latvians, collecting 19 points and 9 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kekava<\/strong> were too strong for TOP Trust in the M55 age group taking out the game 49:40 with the big men, <strong>Gunars Mednis<\/strong> (15 points) and <strong>Igors Lukis<\/strong> (13 points) dominating the boards with 12 and 13 rebounds respectively. <strong>Andrus Toom<\/strong> with 18 points and 8 rebounds couldn\u2019t save the day for the hard working Estonians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wombat<\/strong> had too many answers for Tukums taking out 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place in the M50 age category 82:55. Estonia\u2019s <strong>Ott Poldsaar\u2019s<\/strong> 23 points and 8 rebounds and <strong>Peedu Pedaru\u2019s<\/strong> 20 points and 7 rebounds sealed the Latvians\u2019 fate.\u00a0 <strong>Guntis Kaulens<\/strong> was a tower of strength in the middle for the Latvians with 23 points and 9 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wet weather in Liepaja overnight didn\u2019t dampen the players\u2019 spirits as the games continued at the Liepaja Olympic Centre on the second day of the Baltic Cup 2016. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}