Lietuvos Rytas and Zalgiris Kaunas will play this afternoon the big final of the Baltic League after winning Siauliai (81-78) and Ventspils (86-74) in the semifinals, played yesterday in the Siemens Arena of Vilnius (Lithuania). Lietuvos had a tough job against Mindaugas Kuzminskas ('89) & Co. The power-forward shined with 21 points (6/11 twos and 3/6 threes), 6 rebounds and 3 assists, but wasn't enough to beat team coached by Rimas Kurtinaitis. Deividas Gailius ('88) added 10, but with 3/10 FG. For the winners Martynas Gecevicius ('88) poured 10, with 5 rebounds and 5 assists.

In the other game of semifinals Zalgiris beat Ventspils with croatian Mario Delas ('90) nailing 4 points and pulling down 2 rebounds in 14 minutes. Latvians battled. Janis Strelnieks ('89) had 16 points with 7/14 FG.

 

Photo (Kuzminskas and Gecevicius): Fotodiena.lt/R.Daèkus