{"id":1274,"date":"2014-06-23T16:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2014-06-25T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T07:27:45","slug":"w3540-nwabl-defeat-svaja-for-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/2014\/06\/23\/w3540-nwabl-defeat-svaja-for-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"W35\/40: NWABL defeat Svaja for top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\">In a thrilling fourth quarter, the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\">North-West Amateur Basketball League<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\">\u00a0<\/span>out-dueled<b style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\">\u00a0Svaja 57-55\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\">to claim the top spot in the W35\/40 ahead the final day of the round robin stage on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The game was tied at 45-all going into the final frame, but the Russian side scored the first eight points of the period to break away to a <b>53-45 <\/b>advantage. The Lithuanians did not give up and battled back to get within two points, but missed a chance to tie the game with their last possession.<\/p>\n<p><b>Anzhelika Boikova <\/b>had a game-high 20 points, <b>Zola Tutueva <\/b>scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out five assists. <b>Zenfira Rogutina<\/b> collected 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>For <b>Svaja<\/b>, <b>Ingrida Jonkute<\/b> scored 12 points, with Inga <b>Jokubaitiene<\/b> and <b>Loreta Stanciauskiene<\/b> adding 11 and 10 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><b>Saint Petersburg<\/b> bounced back from Sunday\u2019s loss by claiming their first win after topping the hosts <b>Liepaja<\/b> <b>62-53<\/b>. The Russian team built the winning advantage at the beginning of the second period, when they went on a 10-2 run to pull away to a 31-19 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvians had got as close as seven points (58-51) in the final frame, but <b>Saint Petersburg <\/b>held on to their advantage until the final buzzer, with any further difficulties.<\/p>\n<p><b>Liudmila Kuzmina<\/b> and <b>Diana Bobrysheva<\/b> led the winners in scoring with 18 points apiece, while three other players finished the game with seven points each.<\/p>\n<p>For <b>Liepaja<\/b>, <b>Ilze Dukate<\/b>, who scored 15 points, was the only Liepaja player in double digits. <strong>Una Epnere<\/strong> and <b>Baiba Sproge<\/b> had 9 points each.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Day 3 | Women&#039;s Highlights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zpQgdsoo0bE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling fourth quarter, the North-West Amateur Basketball League\u00a0out-dueled\u00a0Svaja 57-55\u00a0to claim the top spot in the W35\/40 ahead the final day of the round robin stage on Wednesday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}