May is the month of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Cups. We no longer present these competitions, including the final phases of the women’s cup and the Sud Ouest Masculine Super Cup will take place in Pomarez (May 29 and June 1). The Girondins clubs had shone last season with the victory of the Villenavaes d’Ambitions Girondines (N2) over the BEC (pre-national) (74-51) and intend to be present this year for this basketball festival.
The daughters of AS Saint-Delphin (ball in hand) hope to get out of the derby against Pessac in the quarter.
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It is AS Saint-Delphin 2, that is to say the reserve team of ambitious, which took over since the butoir of the Nationale 2 prohibited with Girondin ambitions which finished fifth in N1 to represent itself. These young Villenavaes of 20 years of average age therefore meet their neighbors of Pessac Basket in the quarter-final, this Thursday, May 8, on their prosecution of Villenave-d’Ornon. Coach Villenavais Thomas Bergey is ready: “At the end of this derby against our experienced neighboring, there is the ticket for Pomarez. It will be a real challenge after our French Cup trophy course where we had reached the 32nd finals against the Canet. »»
-Drop the title holders
Among men, Dimitri Saint-Jean, the main coach of the Poudriers of Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, has similar feelings when they find their executioner from last year’s final, still this Thursday, May 8, the Garonne Avenir Basket du Marmandais, in Saint-Meilhan-sur-Garonne (Lot-et-Garonne): “We know this Garonne team well to have eliminated them in the preliminary phase of the preliminary phase French Cup trophy in Saint-Médard. So we are able to beat them even if this match will be different because they play at home… ”.
Above all, the technician hopes that his players, authors of a good N3 season (2nd/43 pts) just behind Mont-de-Marsan favorite for the climb, play their chance of joining the Pomarez finals for the third consecutive time. There is no doubt that for this highly renewed team at the start of the season, the memories of a few alumni – including Captain Maxime Ballade – will arouse a perfume of revenge (78-73 defeat last year in the final) against these same Garonnais who have nothing to play in N2 (5th/38 pts two days before the term) but which will still be very motivated.
The matches
Female. Quarter-final of the New Aquitaine Women’s Cup: AS Saint-Delphin (2) (N3)-Pessac (pre-national, + 7), this Thursday, May 8, at 4:30 p.m., at the Elisabeth Riffiod sports complex in Villenave-d’Ornon in Riffiod.
Male. Quarter-final of the Super Cup Sud Ouest: Garonne Avenir Marmandais (N2)-Saint-Médard Basket (N3), this Thursday, May 8 at 4:30 p.m., in Meilhan-sur-Garonne.
