Arantia Larochette won 68-59 at home against Les Sangliers Wooltz in W-U19 Division 2 Phase 1 and moved up two places into first. Wooltz, whose three-game winning run ended, dropped to second.
The game stayed competitive early. Wooltz scored first through Lou-Andréa Foutey Fonkam (SAN), but Arantia answered quickly with Suellen Santos Cruz (ARA) from three. Kathryn Jo Missavage (18, 1.80m) and Chiara Giorgio (15, 1.58m) helped Wooltz edge in front 11-10, yet Arantia closed the first quarter better and took a 21-17 lead, capped by Clara Walter's three.
The key stretch came in the second quarter. Wooltz tied the score at 21-21, but Arantia then built real separation. Sarah Nunes Birchen (ARA) drove that phase with 14 points in the quarter, including three triples, while Lucie Rock (ARA) kept adding pressure. Arantia reached its biggest lead of the night at 15 points, and although Wooltz answered before the break through Missavage and Marie-Alice Lahure (Season PPG: 16.80), the home side still led 41-34 at halftime.
In the third quarter Arantia kept control. Erika De Sousa Silva (ARA) was very important in that period, scoring 9 points, and Rock continued to punish Wooltz's defense. Wooltz stayed alive with Giorgio, Lahure and Foutey Fonkam (SAN), but Arantia still entered the last quarter up 56-45.
Wooltz tried again in the fourth. Missavage scored early, and later the visitors cut the gap to 65-56. Arantia answered at an important moment: Rock scored 5 straight points earlier in the quarter, and Sara Ferreira Afonso (ARA) hit a late three after Wooltz's push.
Top scorers were Nunes Birchen with 21, Rock with 17 and De Sousa Silva with 11 for Arantia. For Wooltz, Missavage also had 21, while Giorgio and Lahure added 11 each. Arantia finished with a stronger game flow after the 21-21 tie and protected that advantage the rest of the way.
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