Brand New Trophies 2
Basketball: Serbia Beats U.S. for U19 World Title
Official FIBA web site reports that although the United States “came back from 19 points down [it] could not stop Serbia winning the FIBA U19 World Championship final 74-69.”
Serbia’s Mladen Jeremic was his team’s leading scorer, praised for never leaving the court as he played the full 40 minutes and “inspired the hosts’ win with 24 points, including two in the final five seconds to put his side out of reach.”
At the same time, Milan Macvan, 17-year-old Serb awarded 2007 FIBA U19 World Championship MVP [Most Valuable Player] title, has pulled a true coup against the U.S. with 13 pointers out of 14, and 19 points in total. Stefan Stojacic scored 14.
“They have an outstanding team. They’re strong, they’re very big and they play very good defense,” said USA and DePaul head coach Jerry Wainwright. “We obviously lost the game at the free throw line.”
Swimming: Who’d Have Guessed Serbia is “Landlocked”
Another gold medal to Serbia today comes from the swimming’s European Junior Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, where Ivan Lendjer won the first place in the 100 meters butterfly, setting the championship record of 53.21 seconds, 0.69 sec ahead of Yauheni Lazuka, of Belarus.