First-placed Arantia Larochette controlled most of this W-U16 Division 2 Phase finale meeting and won 65-51 away at second-placed Les Sangliers Wooltz, extending their winning streak to seven games and moving to 8-0 in the round. Wooltz dropped to 5-3 and now has back-to-back losses.
The game already showed its pattern in the opening quarter. Arantia went in front 7-2, Wooltz fought back to 12-12, but the visitors closed the period on an 8-2 run for 20-14. The second quarter created the first major gap: after Chiara Giorgio cut it to 17-20, Arantia answered with a 13-2 surge, including 8 points in the quarter from Mara Ronkar (Season PPG: 16.13), to reach 30-19 and later 35-19. That 16-point edge was a key moment.
Wooltz reacted well after the break. Giorgio, the 15-year-old captain from Italy (Season PPG: 24.50), scored 11 points in the third quarter and powered an 11-2 run that brought SAN back from 23-37 to 34-39. Arantia stayed composed under coach Joao Pedro Osorio Silva: after a timeout, Yara Mores (Season PPG: 8.77) and Ronkar combined for 7 straight points to restore control at 46-34.
The home side made one more push in the fourth, trimming the deficit to 45-49 with a 7-0 run. Arantia responded immediately. Mores was decisive there, scoring 10 of her 15 points in the last period, and the visitors finished with an 8-0 burst from 57-48 to 65-48 before the final Wooltz three.
Arantia had balanced scoring: Ronkar 16, Mores 15, 16-year-old German guard Clara Walter (Season PPG: 10.88) 12, plus two threes each from Maëly Horta Mascarenhas and Ylvi Lepage Post. Wooltz relied mainly on Giorgio's 21, with Lou-Andréa Foutey Fonkam (Season PPG: 17.62) adding 13 and Leni Di Cato (Season PPG: 8.00) 8. Arantia also made the bigger perimeter impact with 8 three-pointers against 3 for SAN.
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