{"id":537,"date":"2017-08-27T07:23:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T07:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/?p=537"},"modified":"2017-08-27T20:52:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T20:52:05","slug":"day-1-mens-games-m45-m55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/2017\/08\/27\/day-1-mens-games-m45-m55\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: Mens&#8217; games &#8211; M45 &#038; M55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>M45<\/strong> <\/span>age group started off with Lithuanian teams <strong>Olimpas<\/strong> and <strong>Kauno LT United<\/strong> locking horns with the latter taking out the battle <strong>73<\/strong>:59. 27 points from <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=4943927&amp;season_id=98535&amp;leagueId=33283#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Lukminas<\/a> showed the way for Kaunas. 16 points from <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5140889&amp;season_id=98535&amp;leagueId=33283#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Vaidas Venskus<\/a> couldn\u2019t tip the scales for Olimpas.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game Latvian team <strong>Venstpils<\/strong> were too good for <strong>Varenos SC Varbita<\/strong>s from Lithuania taking the win 73:65. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5147379&amp;season_id=98535&amp;leagueId=33283#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Andris Ziemanis<\/a> chalked up 17 points but <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5020173&amp;season_id=98535&amp;leagueId=33283#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">U\u0123is Lasmanis<\/a>\u2019 10 points and 14 rebounds was the difference between the teams. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5474423&amp;season_id=98535&amp;leagueId=33283#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Egidijus Beinoravicius<\/a> contributed 12 points for the Lithuanians.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>M55<\/strong> <\/span>age group, <strong>Ikskile<\/strong> had all the answers against <strong>Simuna IVAX<\/strong> 57:32, sealing victory with a great 21:3 start in the first quarter. Coach <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5137631&amp;season_id=98539&amp;leagueId=33287#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Ziedonis Jansons<\/a> had a great game with 20 points for the Latvians, with <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5137635&amp;season_id=98539&amp;leagueId=33287#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Igors Lukis<\/a> assisting with 10 rebounds and 10 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5473233&amp;season_id=98539&amp;leagueId=33287#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Hillar Neiland\u2019s<\/a> 13 points wasn\u2019t enough to get the Estonians over the line.<\/p>\n<p>The second game between <strong>Salilita<\/strong> and <strong>Overtime<\/strong> secured a victory for the former 66:48. 20 points from <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5473369&amp;season_id=98539&amp;leagueId=33287#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Siarhei Slaneuski<\/a> for the team from Belarus wasn\u2019t enough this time as <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=4887745&amp;season_id=98539&amp;leagueId=33287#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Vladas Luksa<\/a> with 20 points and 10 rebounds showed the Lithuanians the way to their win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M45 age group started off with Lithuanian teams Olimpas and Kauno LT United locking horns with the latter taking out the battle 73:59. 27 points from Darius Lukminas showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}