With only one game remaining for the end of the Qualifying Round Spain and Turkey, two of the favorite teams in the U-16 Division "A" European Championship held in Bar (Montenegro), faced yesterday in a hot contest on the small gym (Osnovna Skoa Jugoslavika). Spaniards, coached by former ACB coach Luis Guil are in the good way after adding another win even their bad percentages (35% twos, 17% threes and 53% FT). But the man of the game was Guillermo "Willy" Hernangómez ('94), from Real Madrid. The 2.03 center added 18 offense rebounds (total 23) to his 20 points and 8/16 twos, beeing unstoppable for all the big turkish men. Beside him also shined Javier Marin ('94), with 22 and 2/5 from downtown, and Albert Homs ('94), with 11 points and 13 rebounds. In the battle to avoid the relegation Denmark is the only team with no victories (0-2), even 2.12 center Rasmus Larsen ('94) flirted yesterday with the triple-double: 21 points, 14 rebounds and 7 blocks. Let's check what happened yesterday in all the games.
Qualifying Round:
Group E:
-Croatia 78 Lithuania 68: Dario Saric ('94) 15 points, 17 rebounds and 6 assists; Augustinas Jankaitis ('94) 15 points with 6/7 FG and 8 rebounds.
-Serbia 69 France 61: Nikola Radicevic ('94) 16 points with 4/13 threes and 3 assists; Mouhammadou Jaiteh ('94) 16 points with 7/10 twos and 12 boards.
-Greece 59 Italy 71: Ioannis Papapetrou ('94) 17 points, 3 rebounds and 2 blocks; Aristide Landi ('94) 28 points with 10/10 twos and 9 rebounds:
Standings: Croatia (4-0), France (3-1), Serbia (3-1), Italy (1-3), Greece (1-3) and Lithuania (0-4).
Group F:
-Bulgaria 72 Montenegro 61: Denislav Vutev ('94) 20 points, 14 rebounds and 2 blocks; Dusan Perovic ('94) 15 points with 7/9 FG and 7 boards:
-Russia 89 Poland 87: Dmitry Guzikov ('94) 19 points, 10 boards and 2 steals; Jakub Garbarcz ('94) 26 points with 6/12 threes and 6 boards.
-Spain 74 Turkey 69: Guillermo Hernangómez ('94) 20 points with 8/16 twos and 23 rebounds; Kenan Sipahi ('95) 13 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists.
Standings: Spain (4-0), Montenegro (3-1), Turkey (2-2), Bulgaria (2-2), Russia (1-3) and Poland (0-4).
Classification Round:
Group G:
-Israel 63 Denmark 61: Egor Koulechov ('94) 22 points, 8 rebounds and 4 steals; Rasmus Larsen ('94) 21 points, 14 rebounds and 7 blocks.
-Latvia 54 Germany 56: Oskars Reinfelds ('94) 22 points, 8 rebounds and 1 block; Paul Zipser ('94) 18 points with 5/9 FG and 7 rebounds.
Standings: Germany (2-0), Latvia (1-1), Israel (1-1) and Denmark (0-2).
Photo: FIBA Europe / Nebojsa Parausic
