Sports Flash

A review of the latest sporting performances obtained by athletes from Romania

Florin Orban, 26.09.2024, 13:45

Romania’s basketball side U-BT Cluj-Napoca was outperformed by Slovenian squad Olimpija Ljubljana, 93-86 in a home match. The game counted towards the first leg of Group B of the EuroCup competition. U-BT’s best player was American Zavier Simpson, 16 points and 9 decisive passes. In the competition’s second leg, U-BT Cluj-Napoca will be taking on the French side Bourg-en-Bresse.

There is no good news coming from the women’s basketball contests either. CSM Constanţa failed to qualify for the women’s Euro-league after having lost 71-52 to Casademont Zaragoza in the second round of the competition’s preliminary leg. The Spanish had also won the first game in Constanta 75-57. CSM will continue in the second European competition EuroCup Women, together with another Romanian side, Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe.

Romanian volleyball side Corona Braşov qualified for the second leg of the Champions League after a 3-0 home win against Radnik Bijeljina of Bosnia on Wednesday night.

Corona’s best player was the Serbian Dušan Stojsavljević, with 13 points. Corona had also won the match in Bosnia also 3-0 and is going to take Schönenwerd of Switzerland in the competition’s next stage.

Răzvan Sava made his debut in the lineup of the Italian side Udinese in the home match they won 3-1 against second-leaguer Salernitana, in Italy’s Football Cup. The goalkeeper of Romania’s under twenty-one selection compelled recognition at the end of the second half of the game, when he managed to save a penalty shot. Sava came to Udinese this summer from CFR Cluj and signed up for five years.

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