May 24, 2012
Latvian League finals, Game 5: May 18, 2007
Eddie Shannon - Ventspils The defending Latvian League champion Ventspils remained alive by edging ASK Riga 86-83 in Game 5 of the best-of-seven finals series. Ventspils now trails Riga 2-3 as the series returns to the Latvian capital for Game 6 on Monday. A win for ASK in that game will make the club the first one other than Ventspils to win the league title this decade. Visiting Riga led at halftime 38-42 and seemed to be closer to lifting the trophy when they entered in the last quarter in front 61-66. But Ventspils showed pride and heart to capture the lead in a 25-16 fourth quarter to take the win and extend the series to a Game 6. Eddie Shannon led the way by scoring 18 points, Raimonds Vaikulis added 14, Dusan Jelic 12, Aigars Vitols 11 and Uvis Helmanis had 10. ASK Riga got 18 points from Sandis Valters, 15 from Sandis Buskevics and 14 from Martynas Andiurkaitis.

LATVIAN LEAGUE: Final Playoffs, best of 7 games
RecordTeamGame 1Game 2Game 3Game 4Game 5Game 6Game 7
2Ventspils (1) - Final9471906086May 20May 23
3ASK Riga (2) - Final9976647683--
3Barons/LMT (3) - 3rd place8897104105xxx
1Valmiera (4) - 3rd place91646699xxx

Final Playoffs Games
Game 1Ventspils vs. ASK Riga94-99May 9
Game 2ASK Riga vs. Ventspils76-71May 11
Game 3Ventspils vs. ASK Riga90-64May 14
Game 4ASK Riga vs. Ventspils76-60May 16
Game 5Ventspils vs. ASK Riga86-83May 18
Game 6ASK Riga vs. Ventspils-May 20
Game 7Ventspils vs. ASK Riga-May 23
Saturday, May 19, 2007
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