The Young Women’s National Team lost promotion

Her effort had an inglorious end National Young Women to return to the First Division of the U20 European Championship. The Greek band lost 65-57 to Israel in the crucial quarter-final of the B’ Category competition that takes place in Skopje and left out of the promotion zone. Ioanna Hatzileonti was the player who stood out for the Greek team with 18 points and 13 rebounds.

The coach of the team, Thanos Niklas, focused on today’s game, but spoke more generally about this generation, as on Sunday the “small” national teams will be a thing of the past for most of the athletes on the team. “I would like to congratulate the girls”, he emphasized and continued: “Many had a bad day offensively with a lot of mistakes and a lot of missed shots, something that spoiled our minds and stressed us during the game. We had 17 turnovers, 53% free throws, 16% 3-pointers overall. We tried from our defense to get back into the game. We managed it but unfortunately in the end we lost our concentration again and as a result we lost the game. We have two more matches ahead of us where we will present ourselves as a team to get the wins and end the tournament that way. There is no time to bow our heads. We are off target, we know it. But we are talking about a generation that has brought two rises, a generation that is completely successful, a generation that we must give the necessary respect for what it has achieved and not “hang” it with comments. Let’s congratulate them once and for failure. For me, they can comment as much as they want, but not the girls, not this generation that has already brought success and will definitely bring success in the future».

Ten minutes: 12-18, 28-26, 44-43, 65-57

Greece (Niklas): Bosgana 3 (11 p.), Chatzileonti 18 (13 p.), Polymeni 11 (2), Prifti 7 (1), Sakellariou 9 (1), Boudouri 3, Dermitzaki, Goula 4, Papadopoulou 2, Stergaki.

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