{"id":545,"date":"2017-08-27T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T07:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/?p=545"},"modified":"2017-08-27T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T20:58:19","slug":"day-1-mens-games-m40-m60-m65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/2017\/08\/27\/day-1-mens-games-m40-m60-m65\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: Mens&#8217; games &#8211; M40, M60 &#038; M65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakruojo Parketas<\/strong> emerged victors <strong>71<\/strong>:55 in the first game between the Lithuanians in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>M40<\/strong> <\/span>age group against <strong>Kauno Omega<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5149993&amp;season_id=98533&amp;leagueId=33281#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Mindaugas Zukauskas<\/a> with 15 rebounds and 13 points was unstoppable for the winners.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game, <strong>Baltic Wood Tradi<\/strong>ng beat <strong>Kauno Omega<\/strong> <strong>75<\/strong>:66 in the final game of the day. 20 points and a massive 16 rebounds from <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5014923&amp;season_id=98533&amp;leagueId=33281#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Normunds Feierbergs<\/a> showed who was commanding the key for the Latvians. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5474445&amp;season_id=98533&amp;leagueId=33281#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Donatas Sliogeris<\/a> added 15 points for the Lithuanians.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>M60<\/strong> <\/span>age category, <strong>Vilniaus<\/strong> <strong>Statybos Senjora<\/strong>i got the upper hand against <strong>Czech Republic 62<\/strong>:54. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5015083&amp;season_id=98541&amp;leagueId=33289#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Virginijus Mazonas<\/a>\u2019 26 points couldn\u2019t sway the game in favour of the Czech team, with <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5015171&amp;season_id=98541&amp;leagueId=33289#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Vytautas Ribinskas<\/a> 20 points and 9 rebounds and 19 from <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=4887735&amp;season_id=98541&amp;leagueId=33289#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Stanislovas Kaulius<\/a> guaranteeing a Vilnius win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ikskile<\/strong> displayed fine form to take out the game <strong>72<\/strong>:47 against <strong>Simuna IVAX<\/strong> in the second group game. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5137623&amp;season_id=98541&amp;leagueId=33289#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Andris Calitis<\/a> 37 points and 9 rebounds was probably the best display of the day for the winning Latvians. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=4997639&amp;season_id=98541&amp;leagueId=33289#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Andrus Toom\u2019s<\/a> 22 points made no difference for the Estonians in the final wrap up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>M65<\/strong> <\/span>age category, <strong>Tukums<\/strong> recorded a win <strong>49<\/strong>:42 over <strong>Sameko<\/strong> with <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5015195&amp;season_id=98543&amp;leagueId=33291#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Janis Brunevics\u2019<\/a> 19 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5474613&amp;season_id=98543&amp;leagueId=33291#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Aivars Kapacs<\/a>\u2019 13 points taking the Latvians all the way. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5015155&amp;season_id=98543&amp;leagueId=33291#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Viktorov<\/a> contributed 16 points for the Estonians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vilniaus Statybos Senjorai<\/strong> beat <strong>Zalgiris-Juta<\/strong> quite convincingly <strong>53<\/strong>:34 and in the local Lithuanian derby. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=4944425&amp;season_id=98543&amp;leagueId=33291#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Rimvydas Aukstuolis<\/a> added 12 points with Vilnius players contributing points fairly evenly. <a href=\"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2017\/player\/?player_id=5140809&amp;season_id=98543&amp;leagueId=33291#mbt:231-500$t&amp;0=1\" target=\"_blank\">Narvydas Cekaitis<\/a>\u2019 12 points was not enough to get Zalgiris over the line this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakruojo Parketas emerged victors 71:55 in the first game between the Lithuanians in the M40 age group against Kauno Omega. 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