TTT Rīga Crush RSU in Baltic League; Ķīvīte Posts 23 Points and 12 Rebounds
Riga's TTT women's basketball team beat Riga Stradiņš University 111-48 in the Women's Baltic Basketball League. Enija Ķīvīte scored 23 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and added six assists.
Basketball: on Saturday, 24 October, in an away game in Riga's Torņakalns district of the Women's Baltic Basketball League first division, TTT Rīga defeated the Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) team 111-48 (29-15, 29-6, 20-12, 33-15). The league is a regional club competition featuring teams from the Baltic states. After this round TTT Rīga sit seventh in the standings with two wins and two losses, while RSU are eighth with one win and four defeats.
How the game went
The visitors opened with a 6-0 run built on fast breaks and steals in defence. Laura Grunmann and Aubrey Griffin stood out first, and Enija Ķīvīte later joined them with shots from long range. RSU's first points came in the fourth minute, when team captain Una Šteinharde hit a shot from the perimeter, making it 15-5. TTT Rīga led 29-15 after the first quarter.
In the first half, RSU's Paula Putniece scored 10 of her team's 21 points. TTT Rīga's aggressive defence limited open looks, and the students made only four of 25 field-goal attempts before the break. The visitors' shooting accuracy was almost three times higher, at 45%. The score at half-time was 58-21.
Top performers
For TTT Rīga, Ķīvīte scored 23 points, Grunmann and Griffin 19 each, Šarlote Skrebele 17, Karlīne Pilābere 14 and Anete Ozoliņa 11. Pilābere and Ķīvīte recorded a double-double, reaching double figures in two statistical categories. For RSU, Putniece scored 12, while Emīlija Trofimenko and Kristīne Hauka had 11 each. Ozoliņa played against her former team for the first time. RSU's roster includes three former players from the TTT system.
TTT Rīga used eight players: Enija Vīksne, who was injured in Cluj, Paula Mauriņa and Robina Benton did not play.
Schedule
The team is coached by Aigars Nerips and Kaspars Mājenieks. The next league game is on 7 November against Neptūnas of Klaipėda. In between, three European Cup games will be played in Riga at the Rimi Olympic Centre at 7 p.m.: on 29 October against Reyer of Venice, and on 2 and 4 November, with the last one against Israel's Elitzur Ramla. Originally the team had seven games scheduled in 17 days from 22 October, but the calendar has been reworked, and the home game against Klaipėda LCC has been moved from 31 October to 19 December.
