The Carmausines go to Basket Landes this Saturday (5:15 p.m.), without stress, to draw the curtain on this season.
After their defeat in Bouaye (48-55), with seven players on the score sheet, the Gazelles will make this final trip with the desire to do well, against a Landes team (4th), who can still steal 3rd place in Bouaye. The ball is therefore in the camp of the Landaises, to hope for a podium.
Basket Landes who will also be keen to take revenge for the first leg (65-50 for USC). The Landaises then pocketed the first period (31-34), before taking the water in a second act dominated by De Angélis and her teammates (34-16). Captain De Angélis then shone with 26 points on the clock.
The Carmausines, 7th with the maintenance in their pocket, will not be able to do less well, counting two points ahead of the 8th, Nantes. It is therefore a trip without challenge and without risk for the classification. But the Gazelles will not come to the François-Mitterrand space as expiatory victims.
A not easy season
In Bouaye last Saturday, the seven players did not give up and could even envisage victory ten minutes from time, trailing only by three small points while the Boscéennes seemed to be on their way to dominating the match, leading by 13 points to the lemons.
After this 22nd and final day, the Gazelles will therefore be on vacation, but it is very likely that coach Guillaume Cormont will maintain some training.
For President Philippe Clarès and his team, it will then be time to take stock of a season strewn with pitfalls, with in particular a limited workforce, injuries galore, the departure of Manon Soubios after his injury at the beginning of October, but at the final maintenance in N2 which rewards the work of the coach and the behavior of the players who have always been able to face the hazards, with a lot of courage and a foolproof morale, even when the team trailed at the bottom of the classification in November.
