Baltic Sea Basketball Cup 2025 started with the match up between the WU16 teams of Finland and Latvia – for many players these were the first International games of their career (I know – U15 games are also played – but I believe U16 level is the first ‘official’ level of international games).
It’s always great to see the young players emerging and then looking back in five to ten years from now and see where many of these players end up playing and thinking back to the dimly lit Audentes small gym and their first game.
Game itself – pretty much most of the game in control of Latvia WU16, with the ‘home team’ taking the first quarter by ten point difference and never looking back. Finland did at times claw the gap down – but Latvia always found the response and held out to a comfortable sounding 78-61 win in the opening game.
From the winning team the scoring was lead by five players : #16 Patricija Tikmere with 19 points, #19 Sarlote Skrebele with 16 points and #5 Enija Brokane with 12 and #20 Helene Araja and #42 Marta Arsentjeva with 10 points each.
From Finland two players reached double digits with #11 Michelle Peter scoring 13 points and #12 Maija Honkonen dropping one point more to get to the total of 14 points.
Both teams are back in action tomorrow – with Finland facing hosts Estonia and Latvia taking on Sweden.
Fourth game week is wrapped up in Korisliiga, with it comes the new Team of the Week for Men. Some returning names in the roster, as well as newcomers- check out who made it to this weeks Team of the Week!
Listing the Top 3 jerseys if the Korisliiga season, plus best of the rest and down and out selection, also the chance to vote for the public favourite Korisliiga kit of the season, to see if the photographers views is similar to the public?
With the clock ticking towards 2.30am – somehow my ‘professionalism’ .. of craziness, makes me get this entry out there for the morning…. Friday evening usually means basketball photography for me, and so it was this week as well. All three games would have been close enough for me to travel to, so it was…
Same-Same but different, basketball is basketball, no matter what the level of the game.
Little look and thoughts of a game in Men’s D 1 B between PeU-Basket and Kataja Basket Academy, meanwhile a Susijengi game is played 100 kilometres to the east.
