National Teams
Our U18 Belgian Cats have gone through a difficult opening round at their European Championship in Group A. After big losses against Italy and Croatia, they now narrowly missed their first win of the tournament this evening against Germany. Throughout the game our young Cats kept the victory within their grasp but in the end Germany was…
The Belgian Lions remained undefeated in the European Championship Pre-Qualifiers as they easily put aside Iceland with the 90-62 final score. Despite playing with a heavily altered roster – which included 3 youngsters who were getting their first minutes with the National Team – the Belgian Lions overcame a somewhat slow start to fairly easily pull away…
The Belgian Lions did what they were supposed to do as they defeated Portugal on the road with the 60-70 final score. It was anything but an easy victory though. The Portuguese came out with a lot of intensity, while our Lions struggled to hit the few open shots they received and so at the half our…
The Belgian Lions have opened their 2-game road-trip with a win in Iceland. Despite falling behind in a fairly rough opening quarter against the energetic Icelandic defense the Lions picked things up in the second quarter to slowly chip away at the deficit and eventually went up and over for the 34-43 lead at the half. The…
Cheered on by a sold-out gym in Kortrijk our Belgian Cats defeated the Czech Republic to qualify for EuroBasket 2019. Despite a slow and nervous start our Cats were able to get back in the game in the 2nd quarter, led by star-player Emma Meesseman who scored and dished out assists like nobody’s business and at the half our…
In their EuroBasket 2019 qualification game against Germany this evening our Belgian Cats came away with the 58-77 victory. The Cats (without injured Julie Allemand) were led by the duo Kim Mestdagh (17 pts, 9 rebs & 4 asts) & Emma Meesseman (28 pts, 2 rebs, 3 asts & 3 stls), while Hanne Mestdagh chipped in with 11 pts…
