> THE ESSENTIALS
Despite a few points abandoned in free throws, the Columérines, collective and united for forty minutes, won the victory against an official candidate for the first places. They too should take place and continue the momentum of the truncated past season.
> THE MEETING
Only 8 players on the scoresheet for Colomiers who is looking for a replacement for Caprais, whose stoppage at the beginning of September was sudden. Absence of the interior Peytour and the rear Cabaton (ex-TMB), injured in Limoges. The two teams were not at 100% of their means. And in this duel at the start of the season between two incomplete teams, it was Colomiers who was the most resilient and knew how to find the necessary strength to push back Limoges, back to 57-56 one minute from the buzzer, while causing the elimination for 5 faults of the whimsical American Johnson who tastes little to polish the bench.
In the lead at the end of the first quarter (13-10) thanks to the good first period of Chavoutier and Clarke-Nicolas and his offensive aggressiveness, Colomiers, unable to find the parade against the duo Bousbaa-Mendés, lets Limoges turn in the lead at the break (23-25).
It was during the third quarter that he forged his victory. Chavoutier scores 7 points in 10 minutes, Clarke-Nicolas puts on the free throws, Diop and Slim adjust two 3 points and ten minutes from the most difficult final seems done (43-37). Despite two 3 points from Périssé, Limoges therefore returned to a length before Diop and Chavoutier secured the victory.
> THE NEXT DAY
Saturday’s trip will be short but Orthez, trained this year by Laure Savasta, the 2001 European champion, is a priori also a new big arm of the division even if, like Colomiers, he has strongly renewed his workforce at the off-season. A second serious test in the program anyway.
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