Where are the Valkyries? 4/20 Edition

Kyara Linskens

After losing the quarterfinals, Dynamo Kursk was put in a group with the other three teams in Novosibirsk with a round-robin deciding their final placement in the standings. They won their first game on Tuesday 82-72 over Spartak Moscow with Kyara Linskens providing game highs of 27 points and 14 rebounds in 33 minutes. On Wednesday, they defeated hosts Dynamo Novosibirsk 98-93 with a late rally as Linskens had 20 points, 10 rebounds, and 4 assists in 26 minutes. Their season ended on Thursday with the winner of the final game getting fifth place and they defeated Nika Syktyvkar 79-61 as Linskens had 15 points and 14 rebounds in 27 minutes. She is now able to get a little bit of rest and then make the long trip to the Bay Area for training camp.

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Iliana Rupert

The Turkish league finals started on Wednesday, which meant that Cukurova had foreign player limits again and Iliana Rupert was not one of the players in the lineup when they lost to Fenerbahce 77-70. She was also not in the lineup on Friday when they lost 85-54. With their season on the line, Cukurova made two lineup changes for their home game on Sunday, bringing Rupert back. While the game was close, it looked like they might get the win until Fenerbahce was able to escape for a 79-78 win and the sweep. Rupert had 22 points and 4 rebounds in 39 minutes to end the season. She remains unsigned by the Valkyries and no announcement has been made on her plans yet as she may decide on rest before joining France’s national team training camp.

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Janelle Salaun

Schio started in the semifinals in Italy on Thursday with a 92-67 win over San Martino di Lupari. Janelle Salaun had 12 points and 9 rebounds in 27 minutes. They also won on Saturday 86-50 to get closer to the finals as Salaun had game highs of 18 points and 9 rebounds in 26 minutes.

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Elissa Cunane

It was a long break for Brno before the Czech league finals as their opponents USK Prague were busy winning EuroLeague even though Maria Conde is injured. Brno pulled off one upset at this stage last year, but lost the opener 68-50 on Friday as Elissa Cunane had 6 points and 6 rebounds in 17 minutes while she struggled with fouls.

https://zbl.basketball/zapas/495126

Carla Leite

The bottom four teams in France play a double round-robin between them and those results are added to the games between the teams in the regular season to determine which team is in last place and has to drop down to the second division. Villeneuve-d’Ascq was officially able to avoid last place with their 81-62 win over Chartres on Friday and Carla Leite had 13 points in 14 minutes.

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/FFBB/2648653/bs_en_AU.html

Juste Jocyte

Juste Joycte and Lyon played a game for the first time after she was drafted on Friday when they started the French league playoffs against Landes. They hosted the first game of the two-game series, but fell to Landes 69-68 as Jocyte had 11 points and 4 rebounds in 33 minutes.

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/FFBB/2648668/bs_en_AU.html

Chloe Bibby

Girona finished the regular season on Saturday with a 76-71 win over Jairis having already clinched the top seed in the playoffs. Chloe Bibby had 7 points in 26 minutes as she finished 2nd in the league in scoring at 17.7ppg, making the most three pointers of anyone at a 45.4% clip.

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Upcoming Game Videos (times PDT):

Elissa Cunane, Tuesday 9:00am:

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Elissa Cunane, Friday 8:30am:

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