The Youth National Team succumbed to the superiority of Lithuania

This time she didn’t make it National Youth!

Despite the good appearance at the premiere with the Polandthe Hellas could not appear competitive against Lithuaniaknowing the defeat by a score of 80-62.

The leader of the game for the National Team was again Lefteris Mantzoukas, who scored 14 points and collected 5 rebounds, being the only Greek in double figures. From “Lithuania”, stood out the Lelevicius with 19 points and Titas with 16 points.

The next match of the “blue and white” is on Monday (10/7, 18:30, ERT3, sport-fm.gr) against Croatian. This match will also decide the final ranking of the group, with Greece wanting the best possible placement. We remind you that all 4 teams qualify from each group. That of Greece intersects with the fourth, which includes France, GermanyIceland and Slovenia.

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The match

THE Hellas he didn’t enter the match well at all, with them Lithuanians to take control of the match from very early on and throw an offensive “party” in the first period, which they finished with an 11-point lead, thanks to the incredible performance of Sargyunas Tita. The second quarter was better for the “blue and white”, led by him Manjuka gradually managed to reduce the difference, bringing it to double digits before the break (36-43).

Nevertheless, the third period brought back the situation of the first quarter. “Lithuania” with a new protagonist Liutauras Lelevicius escaped even more in the score, reaching the difference again in double digits and basically laying the foundations for her victory (45-62). The fourth period now had a procedural character, since it was very difficult for the “blue and white” to come back from such a disadvantage.

The quarters: 16-27, 36-43, 45-62, 62-80

Greece (Papadopoulos): Bazinas, Mantzoukas, Plotas, Stavrakopoulos, Zorbas, Hatzis, Kalaitzakis, Mermigis, Naufliotis, Neophytos, Oikonomopoulos, Zougris.