Latvian League finals, Game 5: May 18, 2007 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 Record Team Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 Game 7 2 Ventspils (1) - Final 94 71 90 60 86 May 20 May 23 3 ASK Riga (2) - Final 99 76 64 76 83 - - 3 Barons/LMT (3) - 3rd place 88 97 104 105 x x x 1 Valmiera (4) - 3rd place 91 64 66 99 x x x Final Playoffs Games Game 1 Ventspils vs. ASK Riga 94-99 May 9 Game 2 ASK Riga vs. Ventspils 76-71 May 11 Game 3 Ventspils vs. ASK Riga 90-64 May 14 Game 4 ASK Riga vs. Ventspils 76-60 May 16 Game 5 Ventspils vs. ASK Riga 86-83 May 18 Game 6 ASK Riga vs. Ventspils - May 20 Game 7 Ventspils vs. ASK Riga - May 23 Saturday, May 19, 2007 Euroleague.net