Lithuania squash Thai women's hopes

The women lost 89-34 to Lithuania in their Group B match at the Thai-Japan Youth Welfare Centre yesterday.

It was a clash between two sides who had lost their opening games, which meant an early elimination for the team that ended up losing again.

Lithuania, whose world ranking was 12th, predictably made light work of the home side to record their first win following the loss to Czech Republic, keeping alive their qualification hopes in the process.

Given their physical disadvantage, the Thai girls, who were at the wrong end of the thrashing by the South America champions Brazil, were unable to penetrate into the painted area. They had to resort to the shooting from the outside but lacked of accuracy.

 The hosts trailed as far as 51-13 when the game reached the interval before the European side eventually coasted to the comfortable victory.

Thai team manager Pipat Larbprathana was satisfied with the girls' efforts and he opted to take the positives from the match. 

Thailand face the Czech Republic in their final group game today. The Thais still have to play the classification round to determine 13th to 16th places. - The Nation