Basketball news: Nantes are 9 and 5 at the end of 2009
Basketball news: Yuliya Andreyeva three-point shooting made the difference
The weather conditions in France made travelling difficult this weekend. But Aix-en-Provence made the long trip from the south of France to the north to face Nantes-Rezé.
Nantes were without Mélanie Plust and Morgane Cardin, both injured, while Aix-en-Provence had to do without Claire Tomaszewski (Tom-Tom).
The game itself was not a classic. But with a total of 15 lead changes, the home supporters were kept on the edge of their seats.
In similar circumstances to their first meeting, Aix-en-Provence struggled in containing Lindsay Taylor and picked up a number of fouls.
This resulted in Giuday Mendy and Tiffany Stansbury fouling out during the final quarter while Julie Page finished the game on 4 fouls.
The teams went into the final quarter level (47-47). It was not until Yuliya Andreyeva (above) with her 4th trey of the game (54-49) with money-time approaching put the hosts in control for good.
Andreyeva and Taylor scored 14 points each with the latter one also picking up 10 rebounds and drawing 9 fouls in the (58-51) victory.
Mame-Marie Sy-Diop and Kathleen MacLeod also added 10 points for Nantes-Rezé.
Claudia Das Neves and Julie Page scored 15 points each for Aix-en-Provence.
Nantes have won 9 games so far this season. Their coach Laurent Buffard was satisfied that they won and explained that it was a good sign when you played poorly and still won.
Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Here's how...
Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?
Click on the HTML link code below.
Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment,
your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.