A Week In France Women's Basketball

In the EuroCup it was the first leg matches between French and Spanish club sides. France had home advantage in all games and lead the contest 2-1.

Challes-les-Eaux had the pleasure of receiving Hondarribia Irun and also taking the game (80-76). Jessica Davenport had a huge game and finished with 28 points. Montpellier out paced Baloncesto San José (72-60) thanks to a brilliant first period in which Sandra Dijon and Aurélie Bonnan scored 16-of-20 points. Gunta Baskso made her return to the basketball courts and contributed 10 points. The honour of Spanish clubs was saved as Gran Canaria came from behind in the final period to beat Aix-en-Provence (66-63). Tarbes also in action had an easy tie against Novia Munalux Namur from Luxembourg and won (76-39).

The EuroLeague is proving to be difficult for French club sides with only USVO coming away with a victory. Villeneuve d’Ascq was blown away by CSKA (99-48) while playing at home. Halcon Avenida did enough at home to take down Bourges (69-65) in a tight game (France 2 - Spain 2) . Mondeville ran all night but had no answer for Emilija Podrug and lost (68-60) to Pecs. USVO held on to beat Lotus PKO BP Gdynia on the road (79-73).

No changes at the top of the French domestic league, Bourges and USVO won over the weekend against Reims (74-54) and Saint Amand (66-57) respectively. With Challes-les-Eaux falling at Calais (79-70), the joint leaders now have a clear two game advance on the chasing pack. Villeneuve recovered from the Euroleague defeat to win against Mondeville (74-65) and Clermont-Ferrand travelled to down to Tarbes and won (76-57). Mourenx also lost for the fifth straight game (80-66) over Montpellier

Arras pulled out the game of the weekend to beat Aix-en-Provence (94-84), with Carla Thomas from Arras the star with 24 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists..

Aix, Tarbes and Mourenx occupy the bottom places in the domestic standings with a single victory each.