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Four teams qualify for U19 FIBA World Championship in Chile The 2011 U19 FIBA World Championship Women will be held in Chile. The U18 European Championship Women division A competition is the qualifying tournament for the European participants.Five teams from Europe will qualify for Chile and already the first four teams are known. France, Russia Slovenia and Spain booked their tickets after winning their quarter-final matches. The beaten quarter-finalists will contest for the last spot which will be given to the team that finishes fifth. In the relegation group Belgium beat Latvia (63-43) while the Czech Republic beat Hungary (68-44).
Look back on the news from the last day of the qualification round Quarter-final results> Spain 80-68 Ukraine Classification games results
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Spain scored the first 7 points of the quarter. Laura Gil (right) was the spark that Spain needed to get going. Spain were unable to put down Ukraine completely and went into the final quarter leading (61-52).A little bit of Pierre Vincent in France U18
France picked themselves up from back to back defeats with a master class performance in defense to send Russia out of the championship (51-38).
France restricted Yulia Stepanova and Yulia Poluyanova to 7 points each while Svetlana Efimova managed just 8 points.
France also won the battle in the paint and came out top in rebounding.
The game was decided early in the first quarter when France scored 6 unanswered points to lead (10-5). They did not look back and by the interval they were leading (26-19).
The defense of France did the work for the rest of the match as they qualified for the semi-final.
Héléna Akmouche (right) and Florine Basque from France were the only players to reach double digits with 12 and 11 points each.
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Italy powered their way to victory
Italy took no chances and applied a full court press from the tip-off. Sweden were confused by their opponents' tactics and finished the first quarter trailing by 10 points.
The second quarter was evenly contested but the Swedish duo Fahriya Adbi and Amanda Zahui were paralytically marked out of the game.
Italy went into the locker room leading (34-24).
It was one-traffic after the break with Italy scoring 14 consecutive points to put the game out of reach for Sweden.
Italy dropped the pace and went into the final quarter (50-28) to easily win the game (64-38).
For Italy Beatrice Carta scored 11 points and Lucia Morsiani was the only other player in double digits with 10 points.
For Sweden Alice Nÿstrom compiled a double-double of 10 points and 10 rebounds.
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Slovenia have a player by the name of Nika Baric
Slovenia are through to the semi-final of the 2010 FIBA Europe U18 European Championship Women Division A after Nika Baric (right) fired in 38 points and dished out 10 assists in the (82-76) victory against Lithuania.
The first quarter was up and down with Lithuania taking the first quarter with a buzzer beater by Laura Svalyte (21-20).
The lead changed hands seven times in the second quarter before Baric took the game into her own hands by scoring 15 of her team's last 17 points for her side to go into the locker room ahead (48-38).
Tjasa Gortnar was hurt during the last 90 seconds of the first half and had to leave the game on a stretcher.
Lithuania came storming back after the break and with just under 5 1/2 minutes remaining in the quarter Krista Druskyte's trey made it a 3-point game (52-55).
Baric was quick to respond with 6 points for Slovenia. Yet it was the contribution of her team-mates Tina Jakovina and Eva Rupkin that allowed Slovenia to hold onto the lead (69-61) going into the final quarter.
Slovenia enjoyed their best phase of the game with a 10-2 run that put them on their way to victory.
Lithuania had not conceded the game. With back to back three-pointers by Laura Svaryte and Druskyte they threatened to come back (71-79).
The end was scrappy with Slovenia holding on to win (82-76).
The other players from Slovenia to score were Rupnik and Jakovina with 12 points apiece. Gortnar scored 13 points before she left for hospital.
For Lithuania Paulina Zaveckaite led the way with 17 points and 12 rebounds while Santa Okockyte also scored 17 points. Svaryte also finished with a double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds while Kriste Druskyte finished the game with 10 points.
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Date created: 07 August 2010
