“Valmiera Glass / ViA” Photo: Jānis Martels
Four Latvian clubs will go to Pafbet today in the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League (LIBL) matches.
As the first square in Valmiera Olympic Center at 17. The teams of “Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University” (“Valmiera Glass” / “ViA”) and “University of Latvia” (LU) will go to the square. The game will be broadcast live on the Sportacentrs.com internet platform.
After four losses, the Valmiera team had celebrated a victory in their field over Rakvere’s “Tarvas” (80:75), but in the last fight on Wednesday, Tallinn’s Kalev / “Cramo”, trained by Robert Stelmacher and Axel Shield, gave way to the guests with 66:97. The students stopped the nine-loss series in their field on Sunday with a victory over Tallinn’s “Kalev” (92:64), but in the last fight with 79:93 the guests gave in to “Ogre”. In the first team meeting in December in Riga, the hosts won with 68:60. “Valmiera Glass” / “ViA” with six victories in 22 battles takes the 11th place, but LU with the same balance is the place higher.
Ogre Secondary School No. 1 at 6 p.m. “Ogre” will meet with Hābneme’s “Viimsi” represented by Ronalds Zaķis. The game will be broadcast live on the TV channel TV4 and the Internet platform “Sportacentrs.com”. The Ogre players have won the last five of the six games, losing to LU at 93:79 on Wednesday in the away innings against Kalev / Cramo (69:94). Meanwhile, after the loss, the Viimsi team had won four victories at its Ogrei field with 67:74 until the VEF Rīga basketball players capitulated to Riga on Friday with a result of 60:94. In the tournament table, Ogre is in sixth place with 12 successes in 21 games, while Viimsi is fifth with 16 victories in 24 games.
The game between “Liepāja” and Rapla “Avis Utilitas” will start at 19:00 in Liepāja Olympic Center. The game will be broadcast live on the Sportacentrs.com internet platform. The people of Liepāja celebrated their victory on Saturday, beating Parnu Sadam in their field with 84:70 and stopping a series of five losses in the league, but on Wednesday they failed in the away field, giving up 71:78 to “University of Tartu” / “Maks & Moorits” led by Nikolai Mazur. The Rapla team, on the other hand, has won only one victory in the last six games, but on Friday the Estonian bronze medalist in Ventspils lost 81:91. In the middle of December, the home team won in Rapla – 105: 69. “Liepāja” is in the 12th position in the tournament table with five wins in 22 games, while “Avis Utilitas” is in eighth place with nine wins and 12 losses.
In the LIBL main tournament, the teams will play a two-round tournament until March 20. The top eight will compete in the quarter-finals, with the winners determined by the sum of two games. LIBL champions are expected to be determined in the final four tournament. The season will end with the elimination games of the Latvian and Estonian championships.
14 teams – six Latvian teams – “VEF Rīga”, “Ogre”, “Ventspils”, “Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University”, “University of Latvia” and “Liepāja” participate in the LIBL championship in the season of 2021/22, as also eight Estonian teams – Tallinn “Kalev” / ”Cramo”, Rapla “Avis Utilitas”, “Parnu Sadam”, “University of Tartu” / “Maks & Moorits”, Rakvere “Tarvas”, Tallinn “Kalev”, “TalTech” / Optibet and Häme’s Viimsi.
