Teams are winding down their regular seasons and getting into championship shape. One Atlanta player will be bringing home the successful glow of her European domestic league team winning a championship.  Another player came within one assist of scoring a triple-double against a top ranked European team.  A third player prepared for her domestic league playoffs as her squad finished a perfect regular season.  To find the names of the players who accomplished these feats, all you have to do is read this week’s Dream Overseas Report!

 

Matee Ajavon

(Energa Torun, Poland)

The regular season is over in Poland and Ajavon’s Energa Torun team finished in seventh place with a 9-13 record.  Torun takes on No. 2 team Wisla Krakow in a quarterfinals match which is a best-of-three series.  The three games will take place on March 30, April 2 and April 9.  The winner of this series faces the Polkowice-Gdynia winner in the semifinals.

 

Cierra Burdick

(Napoli, Italy)

Last Friday Napoli faced Cagliari CUS at home and won 80-54, advancing to an 11-14 record with one more regular season game to go on April 10.  This game was played in an empty gym, with Napoli closing the facilities to spectators for reasons that aren’t entirely clear.  Napoli started the game down 7-0 until an 11-0 spurt in the second quarter put the team on top.  Furthermore, Napoli scored 49 points in the second half and won the rebounding battle 49-22.

Napol:  Gintare Petronyte 22/17 reb, Sara Bocchetti 19/7 reb, Noelle Quinn 16,  Burdick 15/16 reb.

Cagliari CUS:   Nikolina Milic 28/10 reb, Samantha Prahalis 11.

Box score Napoli-Cagliari CUS: 

http://lbf-web.dataproject-stats.com/Tabellino.asp?IdGara=16062

Complete game Napoli-Cagliari CUS: 

 

 

Damiris Dantas

(Corinthians, Brazil)

Dantas’s Corinthians team does not play again until March 31.

 

Reshanda Gray

(Battipaglia, Italy)

The game between Battipaglia and Umbertide has been postponed until April 3.

 

Tiffany Hayes

(Yakin Dogu, Turkey)

In a battle between two teams involving Atlanta Dream players Yakin Dogu hosted Mersin and got an upset win on Saturday by a 73-57 score.  The win moves Yakin Dogu to 8-16 overall while Mersin falls to 18-6 and remains in a tie for second place in the Turkish league.

Yakin Dogu got the win based on a strong first half showing with a 48-25 halftime lead, and after that it was a matter of hanging on.  Yakin Dogu shot 43 percent whereas Mersin struggled both from behind the 3-point line (hitting just two of 19 attempts) and lost the rebounding battle 48-38.

Yakin Dogu: Hayes 16/6 reb/5 ast, Kelsey Bone 16/6 reb/4 ast, Asena Yalcin 15, Yelena Leuchanka 8/11 reb, Alyssa Thomas 6/10 reb.

Mersin:  Angel McCoughtry 23/11 reb/5 ast, Aneika Henry 15/14 reb, Bria Hartley 12.

Box score Yakin Dogu-Mersin:

http://www.tbf.org.tr/ligler/kbsl/mac-detay?Lig=7368&MacNo=1BA1495&Sezon=156

 

Roneeka Hodges

(Miskolc, Hungary)

Miskolc played their final regular season game on Saturday with Miskolc winning at home against PEAC-Pecs 67-50.  The win puts Miskolc at 13-5, tied for second place.  Miskolc didn’t shoot well from the free throw line, only hitting 12 of 22 attempts, but they outscored PEAC-Pecs  42-16 over the middle two quarters and were +11 in total rebounds over their opponents.

Miskolc: Alyssia Brewer 16/11 reb, Dora Horti 12/8 reb, Orsolya Szecsi 12, Hodges 9/6 reb.

PEAC-Pecs:  Destiny Williams (Baylor 2013) 18/11 reb.

Box score Miskolc-PEAC-Pecs: 

http://kosarsport.hu/game/whun/x1516/whun_86

 

Sancho Lyttle

(UMMC, Ekaterinburg)

Last Wednesday was another step towards UMMC’s undefeated Russian league season as it moved to 21-0 overall with a 103-47 demolishing of Spartak Noginsk.  After a tight 24-22 first quarter, UMMC ran away with the game, including a 23-4 third quarter that buried Noginsk’s hopes. Spartak Noginsk was held to just 30 percent shooting.

UMMC:  Lyttle 19/7 reb, Eugeniia Beliakova 16, Tatiana Popova 14/7 reb, Kristi Toliver 12, Anna Petrakova 12, Alba Torrens 10.

Spartak Noginsk:  Evgeniya Korotygina 11, Ekaterina Chistyakova 11, Raisa Andrianova 10/8 reb, MArina Krivolapova 10/6 reb.

Monday was the final game of the regular season and UMMC hosted second-place team Nadezhda Orenburg.  Could UMMC finish with a perfect record?  The answer was “yes” as UMMC won 75-62 to finish with a No. 1 seed in the playoffs.

Lyttle scored a double-double with 15 points and 16 rebounds and added six assists.  Nadezhda hit 13 of 14 free throw attempts to keep the game close but turned the ball over 18 times.  UMMC will face No. 8 seed Dynamo-GUVD in the first round of the post-season playoffs in a best-of-three series starting April 2.

UMMC:  Alba Torrens 25, Lyttle 15/16 reb/6 ast, Tatiana Popova 13/6 reb, Brittney Griner 12.

Nadezhda Orenberg:  DeWanna Bonner 15/13 reb, Elena Kirillova 11, Kayla McBride 10, Angelica Robinson 10/8 reb.

Box score UMMC/Spartak Noginsk: 

http://www.russiabasket.ru/game/?id=110045&compId=11004&tab=0&db=org

Box score UMMC/Nadezhda Orenberg:

http://www.russiabasket.ru/game/?id=110047&compId=11004&tab=1

 

Angel McCoughtry

(Mersin, Turkey)

Last Wednesday Mersin made up a postponed game against visting Galatasaray and won 68-66.  Mersin started the game with a 9-0 run but Gala tied 30-30 in the second quarter and Mersin entered the locker room at the half with a four point 34-30 lead.  I’m sure this game was a close one at the end, but I can find few details.  McCoughtry was just one assist away from a triple-double

Mersin:  Aneika Henry 25/13 reb, McCoughtry 17/11 reb/9 ast, Bria Hartley 9/7 reb, Marina Kuzina 9/7 reb.

Galatasaray:  Jewell Loyd 19/6 ast, Cansu Koksal 17.

See the above summary of Tiffany Hayes’s game for details on McCoughtry’s other performance.

Box score Mersin-Galatasaray:

http://www.tbf.org.tr/ligler/kbsl/mac-detay?Lig=7368&MacNo=1BA1472&Sezon=156

 

Meighan Simmons

(Umbertide, Italy)

The game between Battipaglia and Umbertide has been postponed until April 3.

 

Amanda Thompson

(Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania)

Last Wednesday the Romanian league championship series started between top-seeded Sfantu Gheorghe and No. 3 seed Alba Iulia in a best-of-five series.  Game 1 turned out to be a lopsided 82-57 win by Sfantu Gheorghe where the home squad won or tied every quarter.

Sfantu Gheorghe:  Kimberly Louis 15/10 reb, Thompson 14/7 reb, Tyaunna Marshall 11/9 reb, Janeesha Jeffery 10/7 reb/5 ast.

Alba Iulia:   Adrienne Webb (LSU 2013) 14, Jelena Antic 13.

The very next day, Sfantu Gheorghe won Game 2 by a 64-50 score.  Alba Iulia got a 13-10 start but lost every other quarter including falling into a 15-5 third quarter deficit.

Sfantu Gheorghe:  Tyaunna Marshall 15, Shante Evans 11/18 reb, Kimberly Louis 11, Thompson 6/14 reb.

Alba Iulia:  Jelena Antic 13, Adrienne Webb 11/6 reb, Ny Hammons (Charlotte 2014) 11.

On Tuesday, Sfantu Gheorghe won the Romanian league championship with a crushing Game 3 victory of 86-53, sweeping the championship series and winning every quarter of the game.  Club Manager Stephen Rus announced a surprise for Sfantu Gheorge fans with a concert at the stadium on Thursday!

Box score Sfantu Gheorghe-Alba Iulia (Game 1):  

http://www.frbaschet.ro/campionat-feminin/liga-nationala-de-baschet/meciuri/3309295#mbt:17-400$t&0=1

Box score Sfantu Gheorghe-Alba Iulia (Game 2):

http://www.frbaschet.ro/campionat-feminin/liga-nationala-de-baschet/meciuri/3309297#mbt:17-400$t&0=1

Box score Sfantu Gheorghe-Alba Iulia (Game 3): 

http://www.frbaschet.ro/campionat-feminin/liga-nationala-de-baschet/meciuri/3309299#mbt:17-400$t&0=1

Video highlights Game 1:  

Video highlights Game 2: 

Sfantu Gheorge celebrates the Game 3 win and the championship! 

 

Elizabeth Williams

(Istanbul Univ, Turkey)

On Monday, Istanbul Univ hosted Abdullah Gul and won 81-72 to advance to 12-12 on the regular season with two games to go, virtually assuring a post-season appearance.

Istanbul won this game on the strength of their 3-point shooting, hitting 10 of 26 attempts.  Tan White and Viktoria Mercheva were very effective, hitting four 3-pointers each.  Abdullah Gul scored 56 of its points in the paint but had no answer for Istanbul Univ and White, who was three rebounds and one assist off a triple-double.

Istanbul Univ:  Tan White 20/7 reb/9 ast, Williams 19/7 reb, Viktoria Mercheva 17.;

Abdullah Gul:  Chelsea Gray 24/8 ast, Zoi Dimitrakou 21, LaToya Sanders 18/10 reb.

Box score Istanbul Univ-Abdullah Gul: 

http://www.tbf.org.tr/ligler/kbsl/mac-detay?Lig=7368&MacNo=1BA1493&Sezon=156

 

Overall Statistics

Matee Ajavon (Poland):  19 games, 12.6 ppg/4.2 rpg/3.9 apg

Cierra Burdick (Italy):  25 games, 12.1 ppg/9.8 rpg/1.7 apg

Sydney Carter (Latvia/Estonia):  12 games, 10.3 ppg/2.6 rpg/3.5 apg

Sydney Carter (EEWBL):  7 games, 9.1 ppg/2.0 rpg/2.1 apg

Damiris Dantas (Brazil):  12 games, 20.7 ppg/8.0 rpg/1.5 apg

Reshanda Gray (Italy):  24 games, 18.0 ppg/11.7 rpg/0.9 apg

Tiffany Hayes (Turkey):  24 games, 17.2 ppg/4.5 rpg/2.4 apg

Roneeka Hodges (Hungary):  4 games, 8.8 ppg/3.3 rpg/1.0 apg

Sancho Lyttle (Euroleague):  16 games, 7.4 ppg/7.2 rpg/1.5 apg

Sancho Lyttle (Russia):  15 games, 12.7 ppg/8.4 rpg/2.3 apg

Angel McCoughtry (Turkey):  23 games, 24.3 ppg/7.6 rpg/3.6 apg

Meighan Simmons (Italy):  24 games, 21.8 ppg/4.0 rpg/1.2 apg

Amanda Thompson (Romania *):  17 games, 9.1 ppg/9.0 rpg/1.9 apg

Elizabeth Williams (Turkey):  21 games, 13.5 ppg/9.9 rpg/1.2 apg

* – Season complete.