May 24, 2012
Latvian League finals, Game 6: May 20, 2007
Sandis Valters - ASK Riga ASK Riga are the new Latvian League champions after beating BK Ventspils 91-77 at home in Game 6 on Sunday. ASK, the first great team of Latvian basketball with won three consecutive European crowns in 1958, '59 and '60, put the boot to the Ventpils dynasty. Ventsils had won the Latvian League every season since 1999. Raimonds Gabrans gave a slim 22-24 cushion to Ventspils at the end of the first quarter, but early in the second the hosts used an 8-0 spurt to take a 30-24 lead. Ventspils regained the lead, but a triple from Steponas Babrauskas allowed Riga to lead 41-39 at halftime. The hosts got their first double-digit cushion, 61-51, through Martynas Andriukaitis with 2:19 left in the third quarter to finish it in front 65-54. The last 10 minutes saw ASK nurse a safe margin as the advantage rose to 82-64 with 2 minutes left. Babrauskas hit from mid range to seal the scoring at 91-77 as the hosts celebrated a monumental win. Babrauskas led the way with 17 points, Curtis Millage had 16, Torraye Braggs posted 15 points and 7 rebounds, Raitis Grafs 13 points and Sandis Buskevics 12 points and 6 assists. Raimonds Vaikulis led Ventspils with 15, Dusan Jelic added 10 and Eddie Shannon posted 10 points and 5 assists.

LATVIAN LEAGUE: Final Playoffs, best of 7 games
RecordTeamGame 1Game 2Game 3Game 4Game 5Game 6Game 7
2Ventspils (1) - Final 947190608677x
4ASK Riga (2) - Final - Champion997664768391x
3Barons/LMT (3) - 3rd place8897104105xxx
1Valmiera (4) - 3rd place91646699xxx
Latvian League Champion 2006-07: ASK Riga

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. Ventspils91-77May 20
Sunday, May 20, 2007
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