Kerryn HARRINGTON (Australia). Classification games, 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship for Women, Bangkok. 01 August 2009.
BANGKOK (FIBA U19 World Championship for Women) - Australia defeated France 71-53 in the 5-8 classification on Saturday.
This was the Aussies’ second win against France in the competition, having won the Group A preliminary round encounter 66-57.
Australia, now await the winners of the Russia-Lithuania game, in their quest to repeat their 2007 fifth place finish.
France thus lost out on the opportunity to repeat their best-ever finish –the fifth place achieved in 2001 at Brno – and will play the losers on that game. France had not qualified for the 2005 and 2007 editions.
Elizabeth Cambage, once again was the leading scorer for Australia with 23 points.
Medelome Medenou led the scoring for France with 14 points.
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