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Latvian U-18 men's basketball team takes on Turkey tonight in European Championship quarterfinals

BC, Riga, 01.08.2014.Print version

The Latvian U-18 men's basketball team will take on Turkey in the quarterfinals of the European U-18 Men's Basketball Championships tonight, informs LETA.


The match will tip-off at 8:45 p.m. (Latvian time), and will be broadcast live on LTV7.

Latvia has so far won four matches (against Poland, Belgium, Lithuania and France) and lost two (against Croatia and Italy) in the tournament.


In the other quarterfinal match-up, Italy will play Greece, Serbia takes on Lithuania, while Croatia will play Spain.


The top five teams in the tournament will qualify for next summer's FIBA World U-19 Men's Basketball Championships.


This is the seventh time since 2005 that the Latvian U-18 has qualified for the quarterfinals at the European Championships, and the third time in a row.


At last year's U-18 European Championships, Latvia finished in 4th place.





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