“NEPTŪNAS” SUCCUMBED TO THE TEAM “NIZHNY NOVGOROD” IN AN EXHIBITION GAME

The players from Klaipėda, “Neptūnas” played yet another exhibition game; this time, in “Švyturio Arena“, the players of Dainius Adomaitis met with the powerful team from Russia, “Nizhny Novgorod” who competed in the Euroleague last year. After a persistent fight, the victory was celebrated by the guests with a final result of 81:77 (22:20, 14:16, 25:15, and 20:26).

Among the ranks of “Neptūnas” Martynas Mažeika scored 23 points, Jerai Grant added 13 (13 rebounds), Simas Galdikas - 12, Arnas Butkevičius - 10, Donatas Zavackas - 8, Mindaugas Girdžiūnas - 6, Daniel Ewing 4, and Gilvydas Biruta - 1 pt.

From the opposing team Semyon Antonov scored 16 and Maksim Grigoryev - 15 pts.

Next week - the Vladas Garastas Cup Tournament

Next week, on September 25th - 27th (Friday - Sunday), a mighty basketball tournament is going to shake Klaipėda, in which the teams, having high ambitions this season in Euroleague, Eurocup, and VTB United League from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Lithuania, will play against each other.

The teams from Moscow, “Khimki”, Kazakhstan, “Astana”, Vilnius, “Lietuvos rytas”, and Klaipėda, “Neptūnas” are participating in “Švyturio Arena“ in the tournament that is under the aegis of the honorary president of Lithuanian Basketball Federation (LBF), a national basketball legend Vladas Garastas.

Tournament Schedule:

September 25th (Friday)
17:00 “Astana” - “Lietuvos rytas”;
19:30 “Neptūnas” - “Khimki”;

September 26th (Saturday)
15:00 “Astana” - “Khimki”;
17:30 “Neptūnas” - “Lietuvos rytas”;

September 27th (Sunday)
15:00 “Lietuvos rytas” - “Khimki”;
17:30 “Neptūnas” - “Astana”

Special offer to senior citizens and students:

Klaipėda, “Neptūnas” is announcing a special offer to subscriptions - senior citizens and students can get a 20% discount by buying two subscriptions. They can do that at the box office of Bilietai.lt.

The President of Administration of Klaipėda City Municipality, Saulius Budinas said: “The year of 2015 is announced in Klaipėda as the year of senior citizens. We are encouraging all organizations to make more special offers to senior citizens. We are glad that Klaipėda, “Neptūnas” has answered our encouragement. We hope that the players from “Neptūnas” will become an example to other organizations, clubs, public institutions, businessmen and other active citizens of Klaipėda”.

Subscriptions to all fans of “Neptūnas” will be distributed until September 25th (inclusively) at the box offices of Bilietai.lt and on the internet at www.bilietai.lt.