Basketball (National 1): With its victory at Loon-Plage, the union continues to look up

Fifth in the rankings (tied with Saint-Chamond-Andrézieux, just ahead of Mulhouse, his next two opponents) before his match in Loon-Plage, Tarbes-Lourdes could, this Friday evening, obtain his qualification for the play-off in the event of a victory. In the North, with a Loon team who has nothing to play, if not his honor, Stéphane Dao’s players scrapped for forty minutes to seek a success as difficult as it is important (78-81).

Determined to impose their rhythm of entry, the Pyreneans first quickly translated their intentions (2-6, 2nd), but were almost instantly undermined by the northern whole (9-8, 5th). The rest of the first quarter was part of the same vein (16-13, 7th), the UTLPB crossed a delicate sequence (24-15, 8th). After the first ten minutes, despite the 7 units of Mohamed Queta, we were still looking for, success was not present (1/6 to 3 pts), and it was starting to quantify (29-18, 10th).

During the following minutes, we attended the awakening of the Tarbais who, visibly stung to the live, accelerated to get back to balance (36-36, 16th), and ironed in front in stride (37-38, 16th). The scenario remained narrow; At halftime, the U’boys were held in check (42-42, 20th), but they were much better, both individually and from a collective point of view.

Upon returning from the locker room, the showdown leaned on the side of Tarbes-Lerdes, which had its clearest advantage since the start of the match (44-50, 24th). But difficult to dig the gap against Loonois determined to play the spoilsports (52-52, 26th). When tackling the last quarter, we were not much more advanced (64-62, 30th). The outcome of the evening was still as indecisive.

Mike Joseph (all the same better scorter of the evening with 20 units at 66.7 %, in addition to 13 rebounds, 4 assists for 31 evaluation) lacked two franc throws which would have enabled the UTLPB to take control (70-70, 36th). The money-time finally tipped out on the Pyrenean side, more successful and more methodical, even if they were scared until the end.

From Tuesday, Tarbes-Lourdes will welcome Mulhouse at the Quai de l’Adour in order to obtain the best possible ranking for the play-off.