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The tournament is viewed as a pre-season playing experience opportunity for Hatis, due to embark on its new European cup campaign later this autumn.

Last season, the Yerevan side, returning from nearly two decades of obscurity, provided a sensation by passing a successful qualification in its first-ever major European tournament -- in 2009/2010 European Cup qualifying Group F -- and was stopped only at the playoff stage.

Starting on Monday with a defeat against Dynamo Kursk 69-59, head coach Gia Ghazanchyan’s charges went on to beat Chevakata from Vologda 65-47 and finally Tim Skuf from Kiev, Ukraine, 73-53, in the following two days of play.

Hatis’ Ganna Zaritskaya scored 23 (with 13 rebounds) and Erica Davis scored 14 (13) in the latest victory that allowed the team to finish in second place behind the home team.

The team playing in Kursk, according to its head coach, will make the core of the side that will play in the Euro Cup tournament commencing in October.

The Hatis official website quotes coach Ghazanchyan as saying that Louise Chapdelian, a Canada national team player, would join the team later in Yerevan.

From the previous year’s participants Hatis retains members of the National Team of Armenia Amanda Jackson, Anna Baghdoyan, Hasmik Mikaelyan, Satenik Martirosyan, Ani Petrosyan, Ukrainian basketball players Anna Pokoyova and Ganna Zaritskaya.

Among the newcomers are US basketball players Davis, Brittany Danison and Quiana Chippin, as well as Christine Kepenekian, who helped Armenia win FIBA Division B promotion at the Division C World Championships in Yerevan last June-July.