Not a night to remember for LFB clubs playing in EuroLeague Women
The EuroLeague Women round 4 will be quickly forgotten by all sides in the Ligue Féminine de BasketBall (LFB) as they all came away with defeats.
For Bourges Basket their defeat against Halcon Avenida (70-77) is their first loss of the season in all competitions.
Bourges went into the final period leading (64-55) but were trailing within two minutes of the final period after Gunta Basko (left) fired a shot from down-town for Halcon to take the lead (66-64).
Cathy Melain equalised for Bourges. But Halcon were back in front as Anke De Mondt (68-66) put the hosts in front for good with 3 ½ minutes to play.
Céline Dumerc who scored 24 points during the first three periods was restricted to one free-throw during the final quarter as Bourges lost their way and the match.
Villeneuve d'Ascq allowed their guests to score the first 9 points and then used a lot of energy to chase after the score.
They managed to reduce their deficit to a single point at the end of the first period (20-21).
Umana Reyer held on to the lead at the interval but fell behind during the third period (40-48) before recovering to regain the advantage going into the final quarter (53-54).
Villeneuve without Jolene Anderson but with Iziane Castro Marques (16 points) did their best to stay in contention.
However they ran out of energy in the last three minutes allowing their guests to finish 14-2 and win the match (81-63).
Simona Ballardini was the match winner for the Italians with 27 points.
Union Hainaut Basket were simply outclassed in Spain by Ros Casares (51-99) and Montpellier tried their best before falling in overtime (83-90) to Fenerbahce.
With six games to go in the EuroLeague Women qualification round, Bourges Basket and UHB are still on track for qualification for the next round.
However with no victories so far for Villeneuve d'Ascq and Montpellier they need to start winning soon if they hope to continue in this competition after Christmas.
You can read the group summaries by following the links.
UMMC Ekaterinburg continue to demolish their opponents as they won again on the road against ZVVZ USK Prague (94-64).
The game remained close during the first period. With 11 minutes played UMMC led (21-20).
By the 15th minute after a 15-0 run by UMMC (35-20) the game as a contest was already over. UMMC went into the locker room leading (48-30).
The first five minutes after the break was all UMMC (66-38). Afterwards they paced themselves to victory.
Asjha Jones led the scoring with 20 points. Furthermore all 12 players on the team sheet scored. For the hosts Lindsay Whalen was the best player with 16 points.
Ros Casares showed no mercy to Union Hainaut and had the game won by the interval leading (50-25).
They went on to win (99-51) with Delisha Milton-Jones (right) top scoring with 25 points. Amaya Valdemoro also finished with 21 points.
LOTOS PKO BP beat Jolly JBS Sibenik (79-76) with Serbia international Ivana Matovic scoring 27 points.
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For Bourges Basket their defeat against Halcon Avenida (70-77) is their first loss of the season in all competitions.
Wisla Can-Pack comfortably notched up victory number three, at home (75-45) against Besiktas Cola Turka.
However Gambrinus Sika still had enough time for one more effort. In the picture left: Hana Machova (Hana Horakova) tried with the very last attempt to force overtime with a difficult lay-up without success.
Ros Casares showed no mercy to Union Hainaut and had the game won by the interval leading (50-25). 
