Israel women's basketball team lose 76-67 to Turkey in European Championship qualifiers

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The Israeli women's basketball team lost 76-67 to Turkey in the second round of the second group stage of the European Championship qualifiers, played in Riga, Latvia. The defeat came three days after the 75-64 loss to Poland.

Four points from Avi Myers at the start gave Israel a 3-4 lead, but that was the only lead in the game. The team came back from 21 points down but could not complete the comeback against the Turkish side.

Eden Tsipel scored 19 points in the game.