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EUROBASKET RECAP: LITHUANIA WON BRONZE, OLYMPIC BID
Wizards forward Darius Songaila and his fellow Lithuanian teammates are all smiles as they won Sunday’s bronze medal game of EuroBasket 2007 against Greece, 78-69, and also earned a trip to the Olympic games in 2008.
STATS: Songaila played in all nine games in the European Tournament and averaged 11.2 points and 4.8 rebounds in [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2007 under Darius Songaila, FIBA, Wizards.
Comments: 12
LITHUANIA TO MEET RUSSIA IN SEMIS
Wizards forward Darius Songaila scored 20 points, grabbed seven rebounds and gave Lithuania the winning basket with 46 seconds left against Croatia, 74-72. Lithuania will meet Russia in the semi-final game on Saturday.
Turning point: Lithuania led 74-70 when Darius Songalia was called for an unsportsmanlike foul with 27 seconds left. Zoran Planinic made both [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2007 under Darius Songaila, FIBA, Wizards.
Comments: 16
SONGAILA’S INSIDE GAME LEADS LITHUANIA PAST FRANCE
In his best game so far in EuroBasket 2007, Wizards forward Darius Songaila scored 17 points on seven of 10 shooting and led Lithuania with seven rebounds in a crucial victory against France, 88-73, Monday evening in Madrid, Spain. Lithuania, already qualified to the quarter finals, stay unbeaten (4-0 vs. qualifying teams; 5-0 overall) and [...]
Posted: September 10th, 2007 under Darius Songaila, FIBA, Wizards.
Comments: 18
EUROBASKET: SOMETHING ELSE TO CHEER FOR
If you are not a baseball fan, don’t watch any football, and don’t care about the WNBA Finals (Game 1 between Detroit and Phoenix was the highest scoring game ever in finals history), there’s something else to cheer for at this moment for a fan like you who love the game of basketball no matter [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2007 under FIBA, Wizards.
Comments: 6
LITHUANIA STILL UNBEATEN IN EUROBASKET
After two convincing victories in their first two games against Turkey (86-69) led by current NBA players Mehmet Okur and Hido Turkoglu and Czech Republic (95-75), Lithuania won a close game by beating Dirk Nowitzki’s Germany team (84-80) and finished off the preliminary round with a solid 3-0 record in Group C of FIBA EuroBasket [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2007 under FIBA, Wizards.
Comments: 30