However, Croatia quickly responded with a 10-0 run and not long after Dino Subasic’s free throws gave Croatia their fist lead of the game at 39-37.<\/p>\n
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Andro Mirceta was Croatia’s much needed spark from the bench<\/p>\n
Croatia continued their run to take 53-46 edge at the half and then completely broke their opponents with 13 unanswered points to start the third quarter and break trough the psychological barrier of 20-point lead. All that was left for Croatia is to run down the clock to a 109-86<\/a> win and a promotion.<\/p>\n 2018 runners-up will play at the elite level in the FIBA U20 EuroBasket after a two-year Division B stint. Andro Mirceta proved to be a spark from the bench with 20 points and 3 made three-pointers, whereas his club teammate Toni Torbarina also knocked down three shots from beyond the arc for 17 points. <\/p>\n However, Dino Subasic was the team’s top performer with 19 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals. For T\u00fcrkiye, Emre Melih Tunca made 14 free throws on his way to 24 points and Ozgur Cengiz tallied 22 points. <\/p>\n Croatia will compete for the crown in the Sunday’s Final against Latvia, whereas T\u00fcrkiye will enter the clash for the last promotion ticket with Switzerland.<\/p>\n It has been decided so after the second Semi-Finals game that saw Latvia completely overturn Switzerland’s early lead and build their own 24-point edge at the half, thanks to Rolands Sulc’s shooting bonanza and a 18-0 run in the second quarter.<\/p>\n Latvia book their Division A return after 2019<\/p>\n Sulcs was on perfect 7-of-7 shooting from the field and 4-of-4 from the three-point line at the half-time break already and it was a smooth sailing from then on for Latvia. The lead remained steadily around that area until the final buzzer for Latvia’s 75-55<\/a> win and a return to Division A after 2019.<\/p>\n Rolands Sulcs finished off with 20 points and stayed on 4 three-pointers made, also adding 4 rebounds and 3 assists to the mix. Francis Neilands tallied 10 points, whereas Janis Jinemanis put up 8 points with 17 rebounds and 4 steals, a stellar defensive showing from the big man.<\/p>\n Croatia and Latvia will play for the Division B gold on Sunday – a feat that Croatia will look to replicate after 2012 as Latvia has a 2018 bronze medal in their collection, next to Division A silver.<\/p>\n Semi-Finals<\/p>\n Croatia 109-86<\/a> T\u00fcrkiye Final<\/p>\n Croatia vs Latvia<\/p>\n Third-Place Game<\/p>\n T\u00fcrkiye vs Switzerland<\/p>\n FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YEREVAN (Armenia) – Croatia and Latvia have earned their spots at the 2026 edition of FIBA U20 EuroBasket,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-6872","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\/6872","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=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
\nLatvia 75-55<\/a> Switzerland<\/p>\n