It is the 500th in the Championship that she dreamed of, or almost. Saturday afternoon, at the François-Mitterrand space in Mont-de-Marsan, Céline Dumerc (38) wanted to strike a blow for this beautiful record, by winning the match at the top of the Women’s League with Basket Landes in front channel cameras The team. Facing Bourges, where the former captain of the Bleues, 2012 Olympic silver medalist, spent 11 seasons and won 6 league titles, the record holder of the selections for the France team (262) believed in it until the break , where his team led fairly quietly (32-23).
But in the second period, the Berruyer club raised its tone, offering another tango to its opponent (43-29), also undefeated on the domestic scene. Unhappy on shots (5 points at 1/9), Alexia Chartereau weighed a lot (13 rebounds) while, coming off the bench, the revenge Isabelle Yacoubou (10 points including a crucial award-winning basket 3 minutes from the end) and Magali Mendy (15 points, 5 rebounds) did a big job, in a duel at European level where the two teams went blow for blow until the last seconds.
On the Landes side, Miranda Ayim (16 points, 11 rebounds) and Nenena Jovanovic (18 points, 4 assists) sometimes seemed a little lonely in attack while Dumerc, undoubtedly more marked by emotion than she wanted the admit, has missed this great event a little (5 points at 16% success, 3 assists, 1 rebound, 3 stray balls and 4 faults in 23 minutes).
Thanks to this prestigious success, the ninth in as many outings, Olivier Lafargue’s players are now three points ahead of Basket Landes (7 wins – 1 loss).
The two rivals will meet again on Sunday 24 January, in the Euroleague this time, as part of the second bubble of the group stage, organized in … Bourges.
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