Basketball: France, Lithuania, Serbia into quarters

AFP News

13 September 2013 at 5:25 pm

Basketball giants France and Lithuania booked their spots in the quarter-finals of the 2013 European championships in Slovenia with victories on Friday and were joined in the knockout stage by surprise losers Serbia. France bounced back from a 14-point loss to Lithuania two nights earlier and beat Latvia 102-91 to improve their record to 3-1 in Group E in Ljubljana. France's NBA stars led the way with Nicolas Batum collecting 19 points, 10 rebounds and six assists, while Tony Parker scored 23 points, Boris Diaw added 16 points, and former NBA player Alexis Ajinca tallied 25 points in the win. Lithuania blasted their way past Belgium 86-67 with three players reaching double figures and four more hitting at least seven points. Toronto Raptors star center Jonas Valanciunas collected 12 points and 10 rebounds in less than 13 minutes of action for Lithuania, who improved to 3-1 in the group. "During this tournament our main players have played really big minutes and it was not necessary to put them back, and it was also a good opportunity for other players to show something," said Lithuania coach Jonas Kazlauskas. Belgium dropped to 0-4 despite Jonathan Tabu hitting 15 points. Serbia also advanced to the quarters despite an 82-75 defeat against Ukraine. Maxym Korniyenko scored 21 points while Pooh Jeter tallied 20 points for the Ukrainians, who improved to 2-2. Serbia dropped to 3-1 but still went through while getting 22 points, 10 rebounds and four assists from Nemanja Bjelica and 17 points from Nenad Ksrtic. "Playing against Serbia is very special because of what basketball means to them and we knew that to have any chance we had to play our best game not on one end, but both ends of the floor," said Ukraine's coach, the former NBA coach Mike Fratello. Ukraine or Latvia will claim the fourth berth from Group E while the Belgians have been eliminated. EuroBasket 2013 will continue on Saturday with three games in Group F. Croatia (2-1) will take on Italy (2-1) in the first battle, followed by Spain (1-2) versus Finland (1-2) with the night-capper seeing Greece (1-2) squaring off with hosts Slovenia (2-1).

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