A Palais des Sports of great evenings: the BLMA catches up on its delay from the first leg and qualifies for the quarter-finals of the Eurocup

Avec le sourire, Angloma a perforé la défense de Keltern. Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

Le BLMA a rattrapé son retard de six points en s’imposant 63-45, jeudi, face à Keltern. Les Gazelles affronteront les Hongroises de Sopron en quarts de finale.

The Gazelles needed to win by seven points to see the quarter-finals, and Valéry Demory's players did much better than that. Despite Rabot's withdrawal, BLMA won 63-45 on Thursday against Keltern.

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A decisive third quarter

From the first minutes, Lattes-Montpellier took the match by the right end and suffocated its opponent of the evening before a first German timeout (9-0, 4th). The deficit of the first leg had already been caught up. Unstoppable in the first half, Nell Angloma accumulated eight points in a first act (30-21, 20th) where the defenses largely took the upper hand on attacks that were much too imprecise (22 balls lost).

This false rhythm was quickly erased after the locker room thanks to the impact in the racket of Fankam (10 pts, 10 rbs). Buoyed by its public, the BLMA widened the gap in the third quarter (52-32, 30th) and finally gave itself some breathing room.

In the next round, the Gazelles will face the Hungarians of Sopron.

BLMA 63 – 45 KELTERN

BLMA :

Keltern : 45

Lattes Sports Palace.

Quarter time: 19-10, 11-11, 22-11, 11-13.

Referees: Bejat, Van Looy, Mansson.

BLMA : 19/53 including 3/16 à 3 pts, 22 LF/27, 18 assists, 40 rebounds, 17 lost balls, 19 fouls.

Suarez (7 pts), Limouzin (2), Bailey (5), Naigre (5), Fankam (10), Angloma (17), Berniès (9), Milapie (8).

Coach: Valéry Demory.

Keltern: 16/49 including 3/22 à 3 pts, 10 LF/11, 9 assists, 29 rebounds, 21 lost balls, 24 fouls.

Wilke (5 pts), Lockett (7), Turmel (4), Gilles (2), Kiss-Rusk (7), Djordjevic (9), Rosic (4), Konstantinova (7), Muzet.