Greek U18 Bball team bests Italy

Vasileios Charalampopoulos collected 20 points, 13 rebounds and four assists while Dimitrios Stamatis scored 16 points, Georgios Papagiannis added 14 points and eight rebounds, Vasileios Mouratos had 12 points and Antonios Koniaris had 10.

The Greeks will play Serbia, winners against Lithuania (83 - 67) in the semis while Italy will play the Lithuania in 5th to 8th place classification.

Italy's Federico Mussini scored 20 of his 23 points in the second half but it was not enough to overcome the Greeks, who won the rebounding battle 42-30 and had 46 points in the paint compared to 22 for Italy.

Diego Flaccadori shot just 5-of-16 in scoring 11 points while Luca Severini added 10 points and five rebounds - but none offensive for the tournament's leading offensive rebounder going into the game.