BaltaLietuviai

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BaltaLietuviai
Leagues	Sostinės Krepšinio Lyga
Founded	2022
Location	Vilnius, Lithuania
Team colors	White, Purple
President	Justas Virbickas
Head coach	Ignas Venskus
Championships	SKL Summer'E: 1 SKL Spring'D Little Cup: 1
Website	baltalietuviai.lt
Uniforms
Home Away

BaltaLietuviai is a Lithuanian amateur basketball club based in the city of Vilnius. Founded in 2022 May, the club competes in the Sostinės Krepšinio Lyga.[1]

History

Vilnius amateur basketball team "BaltaLietuviai" has been playing in the strongest Vilnius amateur basketball league since 2022. Most of its players are young pupils of the Vilnius Basketball School and older legionnaires from other cities.

2022 / 23 season

In its debut season, "BaltaLietuviai" dominated the regular season and easily entered the playoffs, where they went all the way to the semi-finals. There "BaltaLietuviai" beat the representatives of "BuzzerBeater" with the result of 84:74. However, after the match, the basketball players of "BuzzerBeater" noticed that a basketball player who did not have a team license was registered under a different name among the opponents, so they filed a protest. According to SKL Regulations, point 24.7, the protest was satisfied, so "BaltaLietuviai" was awarded a technical defeat 0:20, and the "BuzzerBeater" team entered the finals. There was much less intrigue in the duel for the third place, and the bronze was enjoyed by the team of "BaltaLietuviai", which learned from the mistakes of its youth, without much difficulty, defeating the representatives of "Vilko Brolija-2" with a score of 85:78. Although the "BaltaLietuviai" team lacked the most important player in attack, Matas Sakalnikas, who not only collected double-doubles almost every time in the championship, but also played well in defense, but this did not bother the youth team at all. From the first minutes of the meeting, "BaltaLietuviai" knocked down the opponents, and at the halfway point of the duels, they had an impressive advantage of 19 results (52:33). After the big break, the backups of "Vilko Brolija-2" got together a bit and did not allow the rivals to get further away, but the youth controlled the match quite calmly for a while and did not allow the rivals to recreate the intrigue. Therefore, the "BaltaLietuviai" team just calmly received the final sirens and celebrated their bronze victory.

Already in 2023 BaltaLietuviai returned to the SKL Spring'D playoffs, where they had a difficult start and due to their poor play the team was moved to the SKL Spring'D Minor Cup playoffs, where they performed very well, but were defeated by the team "Krituliai" in the finals with the final score 101:93, and won the silver medals.

BaltaLietuviai after winning bronze medals

2023 / 24 season

At the beginning of the 2023/24 season, BaltaLietuviai renewed its line-up, logo and jerseys and started a new stage in its basketball journey by entering the newly created Vilnius Basketball League.

Current roster

BaltaLietuviai roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 1 Mikalauskas, Ridas 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 73 kg (161 lb) 22 – (2002-04-07)7 April 2002 PG 3 Alosevičius, Justas 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 63 kg (139 lb) 22 – (2002-01-09)9 January 2002 SG 4 Pupeikis, Lukas 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 67 kg (148 lb) 22 – (2001-11-24)24 November 2001 SF 5 Marcinkevičius, Tomas 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 69 kg (152 lb) 21 – (2002-09-18)18 September 2002 PF 7 Sakalnikas, Matas 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 21 – (2002-11-21)21 November 2002 PG 8 Venskus, Ignas 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 21 – (2002-09-10)10 September 2002 SG 9 Mikavičius, Ričardas 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 31 – (1992-07-11)11 July 1992 PF 11 Antanaitis, Ignas 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 75 kg (165 lb) 22 – (2002-04-14)14 April 2002 SF 15 (C) Ramonas, Gustas 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 78 kg (172 lb) 22 – (2002-04-18)18 April 2002 C 17 Kriaučeliūnas, Edvardas 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 21 – (2002-08-31)31 August 2002 C 24 Savickas, Lukas 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 31 – (1992-08-25)25 August 1992	Head coach Nedas Zagurskas Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: November 24, 2021

Honours

Season	League	Regular season	Play-offs
2022 m.	SKL SUMMER'E	I place	III place
2023 m.	SKL SPRING'D LITTLE CUP	IV place	II place

Team records in SKL

Statistic	Record	Opponent	Result	Date	Venue
Points	93	THE SCORE	93–61	18 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
Rebounds	49	IMPERIALSTONE.COM-RK TEAM	78–76	30 June 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
Assists	18	GELEŽINIS VILKAS-2	78–87	27 June 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
Steals	12	THE SCORE	93–61	18 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
Blocks	7	THE SCORE	93–61	18 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
2-pointers made	25	BUZZERBEATERIS	0–20	20 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
2-pointers %	60.9%	BUZZERBEATERIS	0–20	20 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
3-pointers made	15	THE SCORE	93–61	18 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
3-pointers %	35.7%	BUZZERBEATERIS	0–20	20 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
Free throws made	10	IMPERIALSTONE.COM-RK TEAM	78–76	30 June 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas
Free throws %	57.1%	VILKO BROLIJA-2	85–78	21 July 2022	Mykolo Romerio universitetas

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