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Lointek Gernika Bizkaia has faced the current Women's Champion in a tough European Cup match.

The French team is the current champion and the main candidate to win again. The one-way match will be played on Thursday 15 January in Maloste and the return on Thursday 22 in France.

Lucas Fernández's players have been chasing on the scoreboard throughout the game and have suffered terribly to get the pass to the next round.

The Biscayans have easily won the first round of the championship, gaining 19 points of advantage for next Wednesday's return match at the Lauber Dezso Sport Hall in Hungary.

Lucas Fernández's team will play the one-way game at home in Maloste on December 11 and the return match in Pecs will be on December 18. Lointek Gernika and Universitas Pecs have faced each other twice in the regular phase.

Lucas Fernández's team has been chasing on the scoreboard for almost the entire meeting and has been close to losing advantage at times, but has finally come close enough to secure its classification.

The Biscayan team went behind on the scoreboard at the end of the first quarter, but dominated the rest of the partials to take the first step in the classification goal.

Wehave been with Jaume Ponsarnau , coach of the Surne Bilbao team and champion of the FIBA Europe Cup , who has won for the second year in a row and with whom we have discussed the details of the final and the atmosphere of the celebration.

President Isabel Iturbe, Coach Jaume Ponsarnau and Captain Tryggvi Hlinason took the trophy when the team arrived at the City Hall. Acting Mayor of Bilbao, Amaia Arregi, received the team on the stairs.

The Norwegian player, who leads the locker room for his teammates, has jumped Surne Bilbao fans with one of the most widely heard songs in Miribilla.

The Catalan coach has stressed that "we are going against the current in everything, we have won this trophy twice, like nobody else, and going back to the final, like nobody else did." "But above all, we want to be ourselves and win or lose, if one day it touches, in our own way," he added.

Hundreds of fans have received Surne Bilbao this Thursday in the capital city to celebrate the second consecutive FIBA Europa Cup won by 'men in black' on Wednesday.

After winning the FIBA Europa Cup for the second time in a row, the coach has highlighted, in Miribilla, the support received from fans, who have enjoyed a great atmosphere in the Bilbao Arena.

Surne Bilbao's coach has been interviewed by EITB announcer Jon Txakartegi in Miribilla after winning the Basque team's second FIBA Europa Cup, a gift from Xabier de la Fuente for Jon Txakartegi.

Surne Bilbao Basket has won the FIBA Europa Cup for the second time in a row after defeating PAOK Thessaloniki 89-74. Darrun Hilliard, with 16 points, has led the victory of Jaume Ponsarnau's team in the Miribilla pavilion, which was full of necks.

Surne Bilbao has won the FIBA Europa Cup trophy for the second time in a row by comfortably defeating the Greek PAOK Thessaloniki (89-74) in the return match of the final played in Miribilla, full of 10,000 fans.

Surne Bilbao has won the FIBA Europa Cup for the second time in a row after defeating the PAOK Thessaloniki in Miribilla in the final.

Minnesota Timberwolves beat San Antonio Spurs 102-104 in the first semi-final game.

Miami Heat's pivot has made history in the NBA in its victory over the Washington Wizards as the second most scoring player in a game.

Adam Silver, the NBA's envoy, advanced this Wednesday that the 2026 All Star tournament brings changes, as the US team will face the other teams in the world.