After the huge victory some days ago against Germany (+48) the polish squad made yesterday another amazing performance beating Serbia by 30 (100-70) in the quarterfinals of the U-17 World Championship in Hamburg (Germany). Six wins in six games and making the semifinals. Will be Lithuania their next victim? The other semifinal will be between USA and Canada. Let's check yesterday's results.
Quarterfinals:
-Poland 100 Serbia 70: Forward Tomasz Gielo ('93) -at the pic- made his best game of the tournament in the live-or-die contest, scoring 24 points with 8/13 FG and 7 rebounds. At half time polish were already 23 points up. Mateusz Ponitka ('93), one of the best scorers of the championship, added 19 with 6/11 FG, while Michal Michalak ('93) poured 17 distributing 8 assists. Przemek Karnowski ('93) also mae a good job inside: 11 points with 4/5 twos and 8 boards. Polish players still had on their mind the defeat against serbians in the bronze medal game on last U-16 EC. What happened with Serbia? Nenad Miljenovic ('93) struggled once more (12 points with 4/13 FG and 7 boards), while center Nemanja Bezbradica ('93) nailed 11 with 5/11 twos.
-Lithuania 73 Germany 61: Locals couldn't make it. Even their were winning at half time (+3) a bad third quarter killed them (20-9). The great game of Julius Wolf ('93) wasn't enough, even he collected a double-double (14 points and 14 rebounds), and the performance of serbian-borned Bogdan Radosavljevic ('93) either: 12 points, 9 boards and 3 blocks. For lithuanians, silver medal in last U-16 EC at Kaunas, shined Tomas Lekunas ('93) with 14 points and 4/7 FG, while Simonas Kymantas ('93) added a double-double (12 points, 12 rebounds and 4 blocks). Tiny point-guard Martynas Pauliukenas ('93) scored 13 with 6 steals.
-USA 105 Australia 70.
-Canada 102 China 96.
Games for the 9th-12th positions:
-Spain 87 Egypt 62: Spaniards were only 2 points up at half time, but an amazing third quarter (35-19) killed the africans. Guards Jaime Fernández ('93), from Estudiantes, and Jorge Sanz ('93), from Real Madrid, led the winners with 17 points each and 4/8 behind the arc between both. Álex Suárez ('93) added 10 with 5/9 FG and Javier Medori ('93) scored 6 pulling down 11 boards.
-Argentina 90 Korea 77.
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