Mathieu WARNIER, Media365, published on Saturday, November 27, 2021 at 10:22 p.m.
While Basket Landes and Lattes-Montpellier lost, ASVEL sought victory in Charnay and temporarily took first place in the Women’s League standings.
ASVEL is putting pressure on Charleville-Mézières. While the Flames move to Angers this Sunday, the Rhodaniennes took advantage of their trip to Charnay to sign a sixth consecutive victory and settle provisionally at the top of the Women’s League. If Kankou Coulibaly (16 points, 13 rebounds) opened the scoring, ASVEL then took control of the match but without widening a huge gap in the first quarter. Charnay took the opportunity to take the lead for a few moments in the heart of the ten minutes leading up to half-time. However, it was Pierre Vincent’s players who found their locker room with the advantage in the score. An ascendant that Alexia Chartereau’s teammates (16 points) amplified on their return to the floor, very quickly taking more than ten points in advance. The gap did not go back below this bar until the very end of the match and, above all, too late to change the situation. ASVEL won by eleven points (63-74) and could be satisfied with being first in the standings for a few hours.
La Roche-sur-Yon brings down Basket Landes
Basket Landes, for its part, missed the opportunity to come back to Charleville-Mézières. The reigning French champions have, in fact, conceded defeat on their floor against La Roche-sur-Yon. However, after a first quarter round smoothly and concluded with ten points in advance, everything seemed to go in the direction of the teammates of Lidija Turcinovic (18 points). But the latter squandered a sixteen-point lead to see the Vendéennes pass shortly before half-time. It was only after returning from the locker room that Ornella Bankole (27 points), Tiffany Clarke (26 points, 8 rebounds) and their teammates permanently reversed the trend. If Basket Landes was able to return to two points at the start of the last quarter, La Roche-sur-Yon was able to finish strong to win by thirteen points (80-93) and pass his evening opponent in third place of the rank.
Lattes-Montpellier falls in Saint-Amand
Lattes-Montpellier, for its part, continues its tendency to alternate victories and defeats. After their success at Charnay last weekend, the players of Valéry Demory fell in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux at the end of extra time. A meeting that has long been undecided, the gap only exceeding ten points in favor of the Hainaut club at the very beginning of the third quarter. Under the impetus of the inevitable Olivia Epoupa (21 points, 6 rebounds), the BLMA hung on to return to the front in the “money time” but without managing to hold on. Taken into extra time, the Hérault club led for a long time in the extra five minutes but a shot from Gustavsson (15 points, 6 rebounds) eleven seconds from the end allowed Saint-Amand-les-Eaux to win by the smallest of the margins (82-81 AD). After four defeats in a row, the players of Hainaut are smiling again when Lattes-Montpellier remains inconstant and stuck in the soft underbelly of the standings.
BASKET – WOMEN’S LEAGUE / DAY 8
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Charnay – ASVEL : 63-74
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux – Lattes-Montpellier: 82-81 (ap)
Basket Landes – La Roche-sur-Yon : 80-93
Sunday November 28, 2021
16h00 : Tarbes – Bourges
16h00 : Angers – Charleville-Mézières
17h00 : Villeneuve d’Ascq – Landerneau
