U-BT Cluj-Napoca basketball team has succeeded a heart-throbbing qualification in the quarterfinals of EuroCup men\u2019s competition, having defeated in the round of 16 Lithuanians opponents Wolves Vilnius, 100-99, away. U-BT\u2019s top scorer was their US player Zavier Simpson, with 25 points, 5 recoveries and 14 assists. <\/p>\n
In the quarterfinals, U-BT Cluj-Napoca take on Spain\u2019s Valencia Basket, a team they have already gone against in the EuroCup\u2019s group stage. In both legs of the tie, the Spaniards won, 105-96 in Cluj-Napoca and 108-80 in Valencia and are at the top of the table in Group B. We recall U-BT Cluj-Napoca play the EuroCup\u2019s quarterfinals for the second year in a row, having qualified straight from the competition\u2019s group phase in 2024. <\/p>\n
In news from women\u2019s volleyball, Volei Alba Blaj grabbed a 3-2 away win against Hungarian side Vasas Budapest, in a fixture counting towards the first leg of the CEV Cup semifinals. Romanian vice-champions won after two hours of play and made a giant leap forward to the CEV Cup\u2019s finals. <\/p>\n
With 23 points, the Ukrainian Elizaveta Ruban was the Romanian team\u2019s most efficient scorer. The return leg against Vasas in scheduled on March 11 in Blaj. We recall Volei Alba Blaj has unsuccessfully played four times in European Cups finals, in 2018, in the Champions League, in the CEV Cup, in 2019 and 2023, and in the Challenge Cup in 2021.<\/p>\n
At the 2025 edition of the European Seniors\u2019 Indoor Athletics Championship in Apeldoorn, The Low Countries, Romania has sent a seven-strong delegation, with four athletes proving their mettle in the women\u2019s version of the competition, while other three, in the men\u2019s version. <\/p>\n
Alina Rotaru \u2013 Kottmann competes in the long-jump event, Andreea Talo\u015f, Diana Ana Maria Ion, and R\u0103zvan Cristian Grecu, in the hop, step and jump event, Maria Mihalache, in the 60m race, Alin Ionu\u0163 Anton, in the 60m hurdles race and Andrei Rares Toader, in the shot-put event. <\/p>\n
Andreea Miklos, in the 400m race and Stella Rutto in the 3, 000m race initially included the delegation, will not participate in the competition. Recently Miklos has sustained an injury while Rutto was unable to gather the required number of points for qualification. Daniela Stanciu has not been included in the delegation either. We recall Daniela represented Romania at the Paris Olympics in 2024, in the high-jump event and is now recovering after an injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U-BT Cluj-Napoca basketball team has succeeded a heart-throbbing qualification in the quarterfinals of EuroCup men\u2019s competition, having defeated in the round of 16 Lithuanians opponents Wolves Vilnius, 100-99, away. U-BT\u2019s top scorer was their US player Zavier Simpson, with 25 points, 5 recoveries and 14 assists. In the quarterfinals, U-BT Cluj-Napoca take on Spain\u2019s Valencia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":795559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[30081,29644,30847,35224],"coauthors":[116693],"class_list":["post-868699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-competition","tag-event"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n