Croatia, and basiclly Dario Saric ('94), reigned in Bar (Montenegro) becoming the new U-16 european champions. Their victim, Lithuania, couldn't do anything to stop the best 1994 borned european prospect (number 1 at Eurohopes'94), who finished with an amazing triple-double (30 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, even 12 turnovers). The forward was named MVP of the tournament, also being part of the All-Tournament team with spanish Josep Perez ('94), serbian Nikola Jankovic ('94), turkish Tayfun Erülkü ('94) and montenegrin Nikola Ivanovic ('94). Turkey earned the bronze medal (beating spaniards in the decisive game), and Israel and Denmark are new teams of Division "B". Let's check what happened yesterday and the final standings.

 

Final:

-Croatia 80 Lithuania 52: Dario Saric ('94) 30 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists; Denis Krestinin ('94) 14 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks.

 

Classification game (3rd-4th):

-Spain 64 Turkey 75: Agustí Sans ('95) 16 points with 3/8 threes and 2 assists; Talat Altunbey ('94) 18 points with 7/8 FG and 8 rebounds:

 

Classification game (5th-6th):

-France 45 Serbia 55: Mouhammadou Jaiteh ('94) 11 points, 11 rebounds and 1 block; Nikola Radicevic ('94) 16 points with 3/7 threes and 2 steals.

 

Classification game (7th-8th):

-Russia 78 Montenegro 64: Stanislav Ilnitskiy ('94) 19 points with 8/11 twos and 9 boards; Nikola Ivanovic ('94) 25 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists.  

 

Classification Round:

-Denmark 77 Germany 72: Peter Moeller ('94) 18 points with 3/5 threes and 5 rebounds; Mauricio Marin ('94) 17 points with 7/12 FG and 3 rebounds.

-Israel 62 Latvia 65: Maxim Kikus ('94) 18 points with 2/5 threes and 1 steal; Ceslavs Mateikovics ('94) 23 points with 6/8 FG and 9 boards.

 

Final standings: 1-Croatia, 2-Lithuania, 3-Turkey, 4-Spain, 5-Serbia, 6-France, 7-Russia, 8-Montenegro, 9-Italy, 10-Greece, 11-Poland, 12-Bulgaria, 13-Germany, 14-Latvia, 15-Israel and 16-Denmark.

 

Photo: FIBA Europe / Marko Metlas