Basketball: Cholet Basket overthrows the Estonians of Kalev and goes to the EuroCup final


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Cholet Basket is in the final! The basketball players managed to overthrow the Estonians of Kalev (81-59) in the semi-final second leg of the EuroCup. They will face the Poles of Wloclawek in the final. The first leg will take place on April 19. The return will take place from 26 April.

Cholet Basket qualified for the second European final in its history by overthrowing the Estonians of Kalev (81-59) on Wednesday at home in the semi-final second leg of the EuropeCup. The Mauges club will play on April 19 and 26 against the Poles of Wloclawek in the round-trip final of what constitutes the fourth European Cup, behind the private leagues that are the Euroleague and the Eurocup, as well as the League of champions, the flagship continental competition of the International Federation (Fiba).

The 2010 French champion had to go up Wednesday a disadvantage of seven points (80-73 to go) to climb in the final. In their bubbling den of the Meilleraie, the Choletais quickly stifled Kalev led 37-22 at halftime thanks to their leader Dominic Artis (20 points and 5 assists in total).

Last game of Kim Tillie

Inside Kim Tillie, who was playing his last game before his testicular tumor operation, played about fifteen minutes and scored three points. This is the second European final for Rudy Gobert’s training club, which fell in the Eurochallenge final against Bologna in 2009 (75-77).



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