As the calendar gets closer and closer to the WNBA pre-season and regular season, the Dream has made some moves by inviting a few new (and old) players to training camp.

http://dream.wnba.com/news/dream-sign-four-players-to-roster/

Amanda Thompson was re-signed by the Dream.  She didn’t play for the Dream in the 2015 season due to an injury she suffered overseas.  During the 2015-16 offseason, she’s been playing for Sfantu Gheorge in Romania.  We will be adding Thompson’s games and stats to the list below.

DeLisha Milton-Jones played last season for the Dream. She hasn’t played overseas this off-season.  She was signed to a training camp contract.

Kara Braxton was signed to a training camp contract.  She played for Liaoning in China during the 2015-16 offseason.  However, Liaoning didn’t make the postseason and her season is over.

Meighan Simmons was signed to a training camp contract.  She turned pro in 2014 but hasn’t seen much WNBA action since then.   She currently plays for Italian team Umbertide and I’ll be adding her to the report.

Of course, there are lots of other Atlanta Dream players currently playing overseas.  Find out how they did over the last seven days in this week’s Dream Overseas Report!

 

Matee Ajavon

(Energa Torun, Poland)

On Friday, March 4, Energa Torun took a road trip to Wisla Krakow – the top team in Poland – and got hammered by an 86-64 score.  The loss drops Torun to 8-12 on the regular season with two games left to go.  Torun needs at least one more win to be assured of going to the postseason.

Torun made the opening basket, but that was the only lead it would hold.  They kept it close until the third quarter, when Wisla turned their four-point halftime lead into almost a 20-point advantage by the end of 30 minutes.  The game was won with Wisla shooting 61.1 percent for the game and scoring 50 of its points in the paint.

Energa Torun:  Charity Szczechowiak 20, Renee Taylor 10, Ajavon 3 (1-for-5 shooting, 15 minutes played).

Wisla Krakow:  Yvonne Turner 19/9 ast, Laura Nicholls 15, Justyna Cegielska 13, DeNesha Stallworth 13/6 reb, Magdalena Zietara 10.

Box score Energa Torun/Wisla Krakow:
http://basketligakobiet.pl/mecz/35115/wisla-can-pack-krakow—energa-torun.html

Gallery Energa Torun/Wisla Krakow:
http://basketligakobiet.pl/zdjecia/f/824/wisla-can-pack-krakow—energa-torun.html

 

Cierra Burdick

(Napoli, Italy)

It was a busy week in Italian basketball as teams played regular season games on both Thursday, March 3 and Sunday March 6.  On Thursday, Napoli traveled to Ragusa and won 68-58 with a 7-for-19 performance from the 3-point line.

Napoli:  Gintare Petronyte 25/11 reb, Beatrice Carta 18, Noelle Quinn 10/8 reb, Burdick 5/8 reb.

Ragusa:  Rebekkah Brunson 15/16 reb, Camille Little 13, Maja Ercic 10.

On Sunday, Cierra Burdick had a reunion with Tennessee teammate and future Dream training camp attendee Meighan Simmons, as Simmons’s Umbertide squad came to visit Napoli. Napoli won that match 77-65.  The win puts both Napoli and Umbertide at a 9-13 regular season record.  Umbertide managed to close within five points in the final quarter but could not complete a comeback.  Petronyte scored 10 straight points for Napoli somewhere during the final quarter.

Napoli:  Gintare Petronyte 26/15 reb, Burdick 21/17 reb, Noelle Quinn 14/7 reb.

Umbertide:  Simmons 22/6 reb, Wumi Agunbiade 15/7 reb, Ilaria Milazzo 11.

Box score Napoli/Ragusa:
http://lbf-web.dataproject-stats.com/Tabellino.asp?IdGara=16039

Box score Napoli/Umbertide:
http://lbf-web.dataproject-stats.com/Tabellino.asp?IdGara=16045

Complete game Napoli/Ragusa: 

Complete game Napoli/Umbertide: 

 

Damiris Dantas

(Corinthians, Brazil)

On Tuesday, March 8 Corinthians played the first game of a back-to-back against Sampaio, losing 76-73.  Down 56-52 after three quarters, Sampaio scored the first seven points of the fourth quarter and forced Corinthians to play catch up through the rest of the frame.  Corinthians had a chance to tie in the final minutes but Isabella Frederico missed one of two free throws.

Corinthians:  Joice Rodrigues 21, Dantas 16/12 reb, Gilmara Justino 16/11 reb, Karla Martins 11.

Sampaio:  Isabela Lyra 17, Iziane Castro Marques 17, Nadia Gomes Calhado 14/16 reb, Erica Wheeler 10/6 ast.

Box score Corinthians/Sampaio (Game 1): 

http://ligadebasquetefeminino.com.br/relatorio/?id=544

 

Reshanda Gray

(Battipaglia, Italy)

How did Reshanda Gray’s two Italian league games go?  On Thursday, they beat visiting Vigarano 76-52, winning all four quarters of the game.  Gray had a monster game.

Battipaglia:  Gray 27/16 reb, Marzia Tagliamento 12, Kourtney Treffers 6/10 reb.

Vigarano:  Amber Orrange 20, Federica Tognalini 10/6 reb, Samantha Ostarello 9/8 reb.

On Sunday, Battipaglia traveled to CUS Cagliari where the visitors won in a high-scoring 99-89 affair.  Samantha Prahalis tried to put CUS Cagliari on her back with 38 points, but Reshanda Gray scored 37 of her own and Cagliari ran out of gas.  Battipaglia moves to 9-13 on the regular season.

Battipaglia:  Gray 37/18, Marzia Tagliamento 27, Kourtney Treffers 17/12 reb, Valentina Bonasia 11/5 ast.

CUS Cagliari:  Samantha Prahalis 38, Kristina Benic 17, Nikolina Milic 14/6 reb, Cinzia Arioli 14/6 reb.

Box score Battipaglia/Vigarano: 

http://lbf-web.dataproject-stats.com/Tabellino.asp?IdGara=16040

Box score Battipaglia/CUS Cagliari: 

http://lbf-web.dataproject-stats.com/Tabellino.asp?IdGara=16046

Complete game Battipaglia/Vigarano: 

Complete game Battipaglia/CUS Cagliari: 

 

Tiffany Hayes

(Yakin Dogu, Turkey)

The Turkish Cup was played last week over three consecutive days – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  Hayes’s Yakin Dogu team found itself playing against Abdullah Gul, needing a win to move on, but it didn’t happen as they came up short, 81-66.  The loss eliminated them from cup contention.  At one point in the third period the two teams were tied 57-57, but Abdullah Gul took over.

Yakin Dogu:  Kelsey Bone 16/10 reb, Alyssa Thomas 14/7 reb, Hayes 9, Yelena Leuchanka 8/8 reb.

Abdullah Gul:  Chelsea Gray 32/7 reb, Zoi Dimitrakou 18, Janel McCarville 17/13 reb.

Box score Yakin Dogu/Abdullah Gul: 

http://www.tbf.org.tr/kupalar/kadinlar-turkiye-kupasi/mac-detay?Lig=7379&MacNo=1BA1325&Sezon=156

 

Roneeka Hodges

(Miskolc, Hungary)

From Wednesday March 2 through Friday March 4 Hodges and her Miskolc team took park in an eight-team tournament for the Turkish Cup:  eight teams, single elimination, back to back games.  The Cup champion is the team that wins three straight games.

On Wednesday, Miskolc blew out ZTE NKK by a 108-74 score.  Miskolc shot 56 percent from the field.

Miskolc:  Hodges, 19/4 reb, Timea Czank 17, Alyssia Brewer 14/9 reb, Tatsiana Likhtarovich 13, Bernadett Horvath 13, Tina Jovanovich 12/8 reb.

ZTE NKK:  Zsofia Licskai 16, Dora Nagy 13, Zsofia Horvath 13, Vivien Borondy 11.

On Thursday, it was UNI Gyor’s turn to fall by a score of 71-58.  Miskolc won every quarter of the game.

Miskolc: Alyssia Brewer 17/15 reb, Hodges 15, Tatsiana Likhtarovich 11/6 reb, Timea Czank 10.

UNI Gyor:  Cyesha Goree 23/10 reb, Anna Lakloth 11.

This set up the Hungarian Cup championship match on Friday between Miskolc and UNIQA Euroleasing.  That game was a 69-60 victory for Miskolc, giving them the Hungarian Cup in front of 2000 spectators.    It was the first Cup championship in 22 years for Miskolc.  Miskolc led 35-27 at halftime and continued to hold Euroleasing at arm’s length throughout the second half.

Miskolc:  Dora Horti 15/13 reb, Tatsiana Likhtarovich 13, Hodges 12/6 reb, Alyssia Brewer 8/11 reb.

UNIQA Euroleasing:  Devereaux Peters 16/10 reb, Iva Ciglar 14, Aleksandra Crvendakic 10.

Box score Miskolc/ZTE NKK: 

http://kosarsport.hu/game/whun_cup/x1516/whun_cup_1

Box score Miskolc/UNI Gyor: 

http://kosarsport.hu/game/whun_cup/x1516/whun_cup_5

Box score Miskolc/UNIQA Euroleasing: 

http://kosarsport.hu/game/whun_cup/x1516/whun_cup_8

Miskolc celebrates the Cup championship! 

Highlights from the Miskolc YouTube channel: 

 

Sancho Lyttle

(UMMC, Ekaterinburg)

On Thursday, March 3, UMMC hosted Sparta&K MR in Russian League play and won 81-55 to stay undefeated at 19-0 in domestic league play.  Of UMMC’s 81 points, 56 of those were scored in the paint.  UMMC shot 60.7 percent from the field compared to a 34.3 percent performance from Sparta&K MR.  The loss by Sparta&K MR breaks an eight-game win streak.

UMMC:  Kristi Toliver 16, Lyttle 12/6 reb, Brittney Griner 12, Alba Torrens 10, Eugenia Belyakova 10.

Sparta&K MR: Raisa Musina 19/6 reb, Maria Vadeeva 14/7 reb.

On Tuesday, UMMC played the first game at home of a best-of-three Euroleague quarterfinals series against Turkish team Galatasaray, winning 72-56.  UMMC can advance to the semifinals if they are able to win in Turkey against Galatasaray on March 11.

Gala led 25-16 at the end of the first quarter.  Fortunately for UMMC, they would lose the next two quarters by 10-point margins.  UMMC picked up 20 assists versus seven from Galatasaray and the Turkish squad didn’t pick up a single second-chance point.  Emma Meesseman played her initial Euroleague game for UMMC.

UMMC:   Diana Taurasi 17/6 ast, Emma Meesseman 14/7 reb, Alba Torrens 12, Brittney Griner 10/11 reb, Kristi Toliver 10, Lyttle 0 (10 min played, 4 ast).

Galatasaray:  Jewell Loyd 19, Ann Wauters 8/8 reb.

Box score UMMC/Sparta&K MR: 

http://www.russiabasket.ru/game/?id=110031&compId=11004&tab=0

Box score UMMC/Galatasaray:

http://www.fibaeurope.com/euroleaguewomen/compID_jr6ZiXqeGhMBtfq1yxqV83.season_2016.roundID_11804.gameID_11815-3-A-1.html

Complete game UMMC/Galatasaray: 

https://youtu.be/OVRkrMGHyYc

 

Angel McCoughtry

(Mersin, Turkey)

The Turkish Cup was held this weekend.  Mersin will play again on March 12-13.

 

Meighan Simmons

(Umbertide, Italy)

Meighan Simmons’s Umbertide team hosted Parma on Thursday and lost a close 75-73 game.  Christine Clark hit a basket in the last minute of the contest to put Parma up 74-73.  With 10 seconds left, Umbertide had the ball but Simmons’s shot from near the left sideline fell short.  Parma would hit one of its two free throws after the ensuing foul, but Umbertine only had the ball long enough for a failed heave from mid-court.

Umbertide:  Simmons 22, Wumi Agunbiade 19/6 reb, Ivana Tikvik 7/12 reb.

Parma:  Uju Ugoka 26/17 reb, Christine Clark 22, Laura Spreafico 9.

To see the results of Umbertide’s game against Napoli, check the summary under Cierra Burdick.

Box score Umbertide/Parma: 

http://lbf-web.dataproject-stats.com/Tabellino.asp?IdGara=16035

Complete game Umbertide/Parma: 

 

Amanda Thompson

(Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania)

Right now, Romanian pro women’s basketball is playing it’s post-season.  First-place Sfantu Gheorge played the second game of a best of three series against eighth-place Alexandria on Friday and won 94-55 to take the series two games to none.    A 22-4 third quarter drove the spike through Alexandria’s heart.

Sfantu Gheorge moves on to play fourth-place Targoviste in the semi-finals, starting March 11.

Sfantu Gheorge:  Kim Pierre-Louis (Massachusetts 2015) 16/6 reb, Shante Evans (Hofstra 2013) 15/6 reb, Tyaunna Marshall 14, Ann3marie Perau 12/6 ast, Chucky Jeffrey 10/6 reb/4 stl, Ancuta Stoenescu 10, Thompson 4/8 reb.

Alexandria:  Shanita Arnold (Arizona 2012) 16, Georgiana Rus 16, Elan Brown (Vanderbilt 2013) 12/8 reb.

Box score Sfantu Gheorge/Alexandria: 

http://www.frbaschet.ro/campionat-feminin/liga-nationala-de-baschet/meciuri/3301483#mbt:17-400$t&0=1

 

Elizabeth Williams

(Istanbul Univ, Turkey)

The Turkish Cup was held this weekend.  Istanbul Univ will play again on March 12-13.

 

Current Overall Statistics:

Matee Ajavon (Poland):  17 games, 12.9 ppg/3.9 rpg/4.2 apg

Kara Braxton (China *):  32 games, 19.4 ppg/9.1 rpg/1.6 apg

Cierra Burdick (Eurocup **):  8 games, 10.1 ppg/10.3 rpg/1.4 apg

Cierra Burdick (Italy):  22 games, 11.7 ppg/9.2 rpg/1.2 apg

Sydney Carter (Eurocup **):  10 games, 15.9 ppg/3.0 rpg/3.2 apg

Sydney Carter (Latvia):  9 games, 10.1 ppg/2.4 rpg/3.9 apg

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

Damiris Dantas (Brazil):  9 games, 18.9 ppg/8.2 rpg/1.5 apg

Reshanda Gray (Italy):  22 games, 18.0 ppg/11.6 rpg/0.9 apg

Tiffany Hayes (Turkey):  20 games, 18.0 ppg/4.6 rpg/2.4 apg

Roneeka Hodges (Hungary):  2 games, 5.0 ppg/1.5 rpg/0.0 apg

Sancho Lyttle (Eurobasket):  3 games, 19.7 ppg/8.7 rpg/1.7 apg

Sancho Lyttle (Euroleague):  15 games, 7.0 ppg/7.3 rpg/1.5 apg

Sancho Lyttle (Russia):  13 games, 12.0 ppg/7.9 rpg/2.1 apg

Angel McCoughtry (Turkey):  19 games, 25.1 ppg/7.5 rpg/3.2 apg

Meighan Simmons (Italy):  22 games, 22.0 ppg/4.0 rpg/1.2 apg

Amanda Thompson (Romania):  12 games, 9.7 ppg/7.9 rpg/1.8 apg

Elizabeth Williams (Turkey):  17 games, 12.9 ppg/10.0 rpg/1.3 apg

* Season complete.

** Eurocup season complete.