MKB Euroleasing Sopron landed some early blows but Bourges knocked them out with a big run bridging the second and third quarters to win the opening game of their eighth-finals clash in the EuroLeague Women play-offs, 69-47.

Bourges had a strong finish to group play to leapfrog Wisla Can-Pack Krakow into second place and seize home-court advantage, and that came in handy after MKB took a 19-12 lead early in the second quarter.

MBK Euroleasing Sopron are heading into the next stage of the EuroLeague Women full of optimism, despite ending their Group A campaign with an 82-61 defeat at CSKA Moscow.

The Hungarian outfit is young, and to finish third in their pool with five wins from 10 games has given them a lot of confidence, especially when considering that two of their setbacks came against CSKA, a team that no team in the world has been able to conquer this season.

CSKA Moscow capped an impressive Group A campaign in the EuroLeague Women with an 82-61 home triumph over MKB Euroleasing on Tuesday.

Russia international Maria Stepanova had a game-high 16 points and brought down 11 rebounds as her team kept up their unbeaten run this season in all competitions.

MKB Euroleasing broke open a close game at the start off the second and cruised to a 78-55 victory in Sopron over TTT Riga.

Leading 34-31 late in the first half, the Hungarian hosts had all they could handle against Riga, who boast a very good line-up that includes a couple of Latvian national team players in Ieva Tare andd Zane Eglite.

MKB Euroleasing's game at Phard Napoli turned into the Albena Branzova show on Thursday.

Branzova, the veteran Bulgarian center, went into the game averaging just over eight points but she poured in 26 to lead MKB to a 74-61 triumph - their first on the road in the EuroLeague Women this season.