Key Storylines<\/p>\n
Bulgaria grab shocker, first Youth EuroBasket win over Germany since 2006;<\/p>\n
Petar Ostjic with monster double-double to get Serbia back on track; <\/p>\n
Lithuania battle past Greece, stay undefeated along with France, Italy and Spain.<\/p>\n
Top Performers<\/p>\n
Petar Ostojic<\/a> was an unstoppable force in the paint in Serbia’s convincing 89-59<\/a> blowout of North Macedonia. With fellow center Pavle Backo not available, Ostojic played 28 minutes and scored 25 points on 9 of 12 shots and 7 of 10 foul shots. He also grabbed 14 rebounds – six of them from the offensive glass – for an efficiency of 39. <\/p>\n Mark Morano Mahmutovic<\/a> came out on fire in Slovenia’s 93-76<\/a> win over Latvia as he scored 18 points in the first quarter. The scoring ace ended the game with 31 points including 5 three-pointers – four more points than he had scored in the first two games combined. Morano Mahmutovic added 5 rebounds, 3 assist and 1 steal for an efficiency of 32 against Latvia. <\/p>\n Stefan Joksimovic<\/a> also had a big game for Slovenia in the 93-76<\/a> victory against Latvia as he hit 4 three-pointers in scoring 22 points. The shooting guard added 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals for the Balkan side. All told, Joksimovic registered an efficiency of 28. <\/p>\n Ognjen Srzentic<\/a> joined Ostojic on the Top Performers list for his outstanding showing in Serbia’s 89-59<\/a> triumph over North Macedonia. The guard scored 17 points and he also grabbed 5 rebounds, dished out 6 assists and swiped 1 steal in registering an efficiency of 26. <\/p>\n Diego Garavaglia<\/a> finished second at the FIBA U16 EuroBasket 2023 and the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2024 and now he is hoping to help Italy’s historic 2007 generation take home a U18 medal as well. Garavaglia poured in 13 points to go with 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal for an efficiency of 25 in Italy’s 91-54<\/a> win over Israel. <\/p>\n Results of the Day Group A<\/p>\n Israel 54-81<\/a> Italy Group B<\/p>\n T\u00fcrkiye 83-56<\/a> Sweden Group C<\/p>\n Serbia 89-69<\/a> North Macedonia Group D<\/p>\n Spain 88-50<\/a> Belgium Round of 16 Matchups<\/p>\n Italy vs Austria FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELGRADE (Serbia) – The FIBA U18 EuroBasket 2025 heads into the first rest day after an exciting third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-29189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGermany 80-85<\/a> Bulgaria<\/p>\n
\nFrance 95-56<\/a> Austria<\/p>\n
\nLithuania 87-80<\/a> Greece<\/p>\n
\nSlovenia 93-76<\/a> Latvia<\/p>\n
\nSerbia vs Belgium
\nT\u00fcrkiye vs Israel
\nSpain vs North Macedonia
\nGermany vs Sweden
\nLithuania vs Latvia
\nFrance vs Bulgaria
\nSlovenia vs Greece<\/p>\n