Kaspars Vecvagars and Gunārs Gailītis guide Valmiera Glass ViA to road win at Donar
- Māris Noviks
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Valmiera Glass ViA showed potential in offense and withstood comeback attempts by Donar Groningen to post a 92-88 road win on Tuesday, September 23, at the martiniplaza in the northern Netherlands.
Players of the game
Dominykas Stenionis stepped up from Valmiera bench in a big way.
Lithuanian point guard led Latvian team with 24 points on 4/6 shooting from the three points line and a 12/14 effort from the charity stripe.
Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones was another big hitter for the visitors.
New Zealand guard filled the stat line with 20 points, five rebounds, five assists and three steals.
A former University of California at San Diego player forced eight fouls.
Carlton Linguard Jr. Led all scorers with 26 points.
University of San Francisco graduate big man went 4/9 from the three point line and grabbed five rebounds.
Austin Luke scored 15 points and dished out 16 assists – a second best result in ENBL history.
Assists in a single game | ENBL records
Aigars Šķēle 19 March 12, 2023, Zastal 97-94 BM Stal
Austin Luke 16 September 23, 2025, Donar 88-92 Valmiera
Viktor Pulpan 14 October 15, 2024, Brno 101-103 Bratislava
Donatas Sabeckis 13 March 30, 2022, Liepāja 81-83 Šiauliai
D.J. Cooper 13 December 27, 2022, Ness Ziona 94-80 Brno
D.J. Cooper 13 December 28, 2022, Szczecin 89-86 Ness Ziona
Bryce Alford 13 March 12, 2023, Zastal 97-94 BM Stal
Jordan Johnson 13 January 23, 2024, Newcastle 100-92 Liège
Dontay Caruthers 13 March 1, 2025, Valmiera 83-105 Bratislava
Key stats
Valmiera shot 59 percent from the field to take a 43-34 lead at the half.
Strong effort by Carlton Linguard Jr. allowed the hosts to stay in the game but Valmiera soon regained control.
Good three point shooting and aggressiveness in offense extended the visitors lead up to 18 points however Donar returned one more time.
The hosts cut the gap to four points but run out of time.
Game notes
Valmiera Glass ViA improved to 1-0, while Donar Groningen dropped to 0-1.
Latvian team leads the series against Donar, 2-0.
Kaspars Vecvagars, the 2012 European U20 vice champion, debuted at the helm of Valmiera Glass ViA with a win.
His assistant Gunārs Gailītis was a former head coach at the University of Latvia and is a brother of the 2025 German Cup winner Jānis Gailītis.
2005 spectators attended the game.
ENBL access: follow the game on YouTube
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