Basketball

For the first time, Midlands Lithuanian Community basketball team has participated in BLKL tournament London, 28th March 2009. There were two 3x3 teams from our community.

In total 15 teams were playing in 4 groups. Our first team was number one in their group, and in quarterfinal met last year's winner "Baltic Staff". After losing against "Smelte" team after a very intensive game and "Sabakstynas", MLC team has got the fourth place in this competition. This is a brilliant result taking into consideration that our men have only started to train in September 2008!

We would like to thank our community members Gytis Matusevicius, Laimonas Jankauskas, Vaidas Plieskis, Marius Rusys, Mantas Doreika, Ruslanas Juskevicius and Tomas Zinkevicius and the curator of sports department Valdas Labutis for their efforts and achievements.

Further plans for our basketball team is to become a member team of BLKL (British Lithuanian Basketball League). Midlands Lithuanian community sports department is also starting a project for women's basketball team. We are open for everybody interested in basketball, especially for the members of new wave migrants communities.