FFollowing an impressive dynamic since the start of the season, STB Le Havre traveled this Tuesday, November 5, 2024 to <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/basketball-serge-tristram-its-a-very-mixed-record/” title=”BASKETBALL – Serge Tristram: "It's a very mixed record"”>Loon-Plage which, after a promising start, remained on four losses in the last five matches.
Among the winners of the 2022-2023 play-offs, the Normans were aiming for a tenth success, which they obtained through a tough fight (70-76), against the Loonois deprived of their leader Hugo Desseignet. Although expected, the confrontation with his older brother Thibault did not take place. Without its northern figures Benoît Mangin and Valentin Bigote, the STB was harshly challenged from the start by a conquering team (10-8, 5th). Loon-Plage marked its territory a little more (18-12, 8th). Caught in the trap, the Le Havre managed to extricate themselves by returning to height at the buzzer of the first quarter, then by resuming their march forward from the start of the second, with authority (21-32, 14th).
This comfortable mattress, Steven Cayol (13 units in the first period, 3/4 three points) and his teammates took care to maintain it, but they surely took a deep breath when the prize-winning shot of the northerner Hugo Boumpoutou was refused by the referees , right at the halftime buzzer (34-44, 20th). Upon returning from the locker room, matters took a different turn, due to the Loon revolt. The gap narrowed (45-49, 25th), and it was just a hair’s breadth away from entering the last ten minutes (55-57, 30th).
The STB manages the end of the match
The epilogue promised to be fierce, but Le Havre retained control of operations (63-70, 37th), until securing its success. Lauriane Dolt shared her feelings: “When a team makes a strong defensive choice, and we respond to this choice, that’s when the machine stops. It’s painful, because we quickly found solutions in the zone, it was when they went individual that we were no longer aggressive. We leave too many one-on-ones easy, that’s the downside. »
From this Friday, November 8, Le Havre will be back, with the reception of Berck, at the Docks Océane. “We would like to finish this first phase by winning the last two matches. We take match by match. Berck, at home, this one must not be lost. »
At Loon-Plage, STB Le Havre beats Loon-Plage 76 to 70 (44-34)
(21-21, 13-23, 21-13, 15-19)
LOON-PLAGE: Duwiquet 13 points, Hairabetian 7, Peinte 9, Nkombou 8, Flosse 5, Fauché, Boumpoutou 9, Camara, Saumont 2, Robertson 17.
STB LE HAVRE: Mensah 11 points, Ndoye 8, Awich 9, Wrigh 4t, Sambe 8, Cayol 17, Nebot 3, T. Desseignet 11, Bassoumba 5.
