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China beats Cuba 78-67 in women's basketball challenge

(Xinhua)    08:58, April 27, 2015
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PINGHU, China, April 26 -- China beat Cuba 78-67, winning all three stops in 2015 Sino-Cuba Women's International Basketball Challenge here on Sunday.

Losing to China 41-82 on Friday, Cuba attacked early tonight, the 5-4 lead marked the first advantage they took after both teams scored in this year's challenge.

Cuba extended the advantage to 28-20 in the second quarter before Shao Ting and Gao Song led a 10-0 streak for China. The host was 32-30 up at the end of the first half.

Isaac had seven straight points for Cuba at the beginning of the third quarter during which China scored 17. Cuba soon called a time out and cut the deficit down to 50-55 after that.

In the final quarter, Shao Ting had 13 of China's 23 points to help the team again built a double-figure margin. China kept the lead 78-67 to the end of the match and won all three stops of the tournament.

Shao Ting scored a game-high 23 points for China, Delgado led Cuba with 13 points and four assists.

"Shao Ting made some mistakes she doesn't usually make, she missed some layups and she is a very good layup shooter. But she always plays hard that's why We encourage everybody plays like her," said China coach Thomas Mather.

Team China will have a three-day break and return to Beijing for routine training. In May the team will leave for Europe to have eight or nine warm up matches with Lithuania, Latvia and Serbia.

(For the latest China news, Please follow People's Daily on Twitter and Facebook)(Editor:Huang Jin,Gao Yinan)

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