Basketball: GB girls beaten by Slovakia

Hampered by injuries to five players, including Edinburgh Kool Kat Becca Allison, Great Britain Under-20s went down to a desperately disappointing 39-38 defeat in their opening game of the Eurobasket Division A in Novi Sad, Serbia, last night.

The Slovaks, beaten last year for the Division B title by GB, took their revenge with the last basket of a tight defensive game in which GB trailed by 24-20 at half-time, but fought back to take the lead near the end.