Basket Landes will defend its title against Bourges in the Coupe de France

The Landaises beat Tarbes (87-81 ap) in the semi-final and will face Bourges in the final.

Basket Landes, double holder of the Women’s French Cup, qualified for a new final by dominating Tarbes on Saturday (87-81 ap) and will face Bourges, big winner (95-65) of Asvel too diminished in semi-finals. finals. The Lyonnaises, finalists of the 2023 edition, were no match for the Prado in the absence of Gabby Williams (personal reasons), Helena Ciak and Marine Johannès (injured).

Trailing by 15 points at half-time (47-32), they were subjected to the law of the Tango collective (5 players with at least 11 pts) and the Lithuanian shooter Kamile Nacickaite (18 pts including 5/8 long distance) .

The Berruyères, holders of the record for Cup titles (11), will face the Landaises on April 27 at Bercy in a repeat of the 2022 edition.

The latter were pushed into overtime by Tarbes, who equalized thanks to the young French international leader Carla Leite (19 years old, 21 pts in total) 18 seconds from the end. But, with their American leader Alexis Peterson (9 free throws out of 10 attempted) in the lead, they showed composure on the penalty line at the end of overtime.

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