The players of Fleury Loiret, Suzanne Wajoka and Cassidy Chambonnier, started the group stage of the European league. Traveling in Romania, they lost 29-27.
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Their club is in its tenth European campaign. He lived a Challenge Cup semi-final, the 4th continental division in 2012, then a Cup Winners’ Cup final, three years later. Here he is today in the European League, the antechamber of the great Champions League, after having passed the obstacle of the third qualifying round: two return matches won 29-26 then 28-24 against the Swedes of H65 Höörs . Suzanne Wajoka took the opportunity to score five goals on eight shots attempted.
A close match
Qualified for the group stage, the players from Fleury played their first match this weekend in Group D. “The Panthers” came to the Danube Sports Hall, in Braïla, a town of 180,000 inhabitants located in the north-east of Romania. Quickly led to a score of 7-3 after 11 minutes of play, they came back for the first time up to HC Dunarea Braïla (11-12) before conceding a new gap (17-23). If they got closer at the end of the game, coming back to four goals from their opponents, that was not enough to prevent a 29-27 defeat against the 6th in the Romanian championship.
Goals for Chambonnier
The absence of their captain and European vice-champion, Alexandra Lacrabère, injured with hamstrings, undoubtedly weighed. On the side of the Caledonians, Cassidy Chambonnier scored three goals on his five attempts like his teammates Lilou Begon and Amina Sankharé. Suzanne Wajoka, she played but without shooting. Next Sunday, Fleury Loiret will play his second Group D match against Siofok KC, a Hungarian club held in check by the Russians of Kuban Krasnodar (28-28).
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The other two French teams involved in the competition have experienced varying fortunes. In group A, Paris 92 beat the Hungarians of Vaci NKSE by a hair 34-33. In group B, Nantes Atlantique lost to the Russians from HC Lada.
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