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Toulon edged past Clermont Auvergne 23-21 at Stade Felix Mayol with Mamuka Gorgodzes late try giving them a timely boost.?The three-time European champions have struggled this term but they got back to winning ways ahead of Mike Fords arrival on Monday as their new first team coach.Leigh Halfpennys metronomic boot kept the scoreboard ticking over as he finished with 11 points for Toulon as they crossed once in each half with Charles Ollivon and Gorgodze scoring.?Clermont rallied hard and missed a late drop-goal to win the match with Patricio Fernandezs brace of tries and Camille Lopezs kicking keeping them on Toulons toes.Elsewhere on Sunday, A hat-trick from Nemani Nadolo helped Montpellier thrash Brive 42-13, out-scoring their opponents by five tries to just one.Nadaolo scored a brace of tries in the first-half for Montpellier, who thanks primarily to the boot of Demetri Catrakillis were 18-6 up by the break.Catrakillis ended the match with a haul of 10 points, whilst Francois Steyn and Charles Geli crossed the whitewash for Montpellier in a second-half that also saw Nadolo score his third.Ben Botica notched a conversion and penalty for the home side late in the game, whilst William Whetton scored the only Brive try, with Gaetan Germain kicking 8 points for Brive.On Saturday Castres delivered an eye-catching?31-23 victory over Top 14 champions Racing 92 at Stade Pierre Antoine.A pulsating fixture saw the teams locked up at 13 all at halftime, with a try apiece from France loose-head prop Eddy Ben Arous for Racing, and second-row Rodrigo Capo Ortega for the home side.The second half ?saw five-pointers from Geoffrey Palis and Benjamin Urdapilleta, and 16 points from the boot of the latter saw Castres come out on top, with new signing Leone Nakarawa getting on the score-sheet for the Parisian side.La Rochelle were too strong for Bayonne at home with a solid?34-17 victory at Stade Marcel Deflandre.With the score locked at 6-6 after 30 minutes, La Rochelle then struck twice in the 10 minutes before half time, first through Hikairo Forbes and then thanks to a penalty try. Brock James converted both to give his team a healthy 20-6 lead.Bayonne came back into the game after the break as Raphael Lagarde slotted two penalties, but a Vincent Rattez try gave La Rochelle a commanding lead with 20 minutes to play. Pierre Aguillon made sure of the result with his sides fourth try despite a yellow card for Jone Qovu, which forced the home side to see out the game with 14 men.Bayonne used that advantage to score a consolation try in the 81st minute through Martin Laveau.?Adam Ashley-Cooper bagged a hat-trick of tries as Bordeaux-Bègles defeated Lyon 32-10 at Stade Chaban Delmas.The hosts held a 27-3 lead at the break thanks to Ashley-Coopers first two tries and one from Luke Braid in an excellent first-half.Ian Madigan had brought his kicking boots, and his conversions plus two penalties saw the hosts on the right path to a bonus point win.?A try from Lyon full-back Romain Loursac threatened that eventuality, but ?Ashley-Coopers third score sealed the five points.?At the Stade des Alpes, Pau sneaked a 39-38 victory over Grenoble thanks to an 81st minute Tom Taylor penalty.The hosts led 29-16 at half-time, with Jonathan Wisniewski contributing 28 points for the game, and it all looked over in the 79th minute when Wisniewski kicked his eighth penalty to give his side a narrow 38-36 lead.?Pau werent done though, and Taylor showed his class with a nerveless last kick of the game that gave his team a memorable away victory.The visitors needed to score first in the second half, and they did so, reducing the deficit to 29-26 before Sona Taumalolo got sin-binned. Pau failed to add any points in that period but when he returned his team added a Jale Vatubua try, then another penalty by Taylor gave them a 36-35 lead before the grandstand finish.?In the late kick-off, Toulouse overcame Stade Francais 23-18?at the?Stade Ernest Wallon.?A cagey first-half ended with Toulouse 9-3 up, but also importantly with a man advantage after Sergio Parisse was unfortunate to be shown a red card for a tip tackle in the 37th minute.After the half-time oranges the game opened up, Alex Palisson and Thierry Dusautoir scoring for Toulouse, with Pascal Pape crossing the whitewash inbetween them for the visitors. Toulouse were always the likely winners though a late converted try from Julien Arias helped the visitors add some respectability to the score.Sebastian Bezy kicked 11 points for Toulouse, for whom Toby Flood notched a second-half conversion, whilst Julien Dupuy kicked two penalties for Stade Francais, and Meyer Bosman added a late conversion. 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He sat out the following game, a 108-107 win Saturday in Portland, before coming back to help send the Nuggets to their seventh consecutive loss. PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas -- Michigan State spent the first 30 minutes playing with energy and building a huge lead, then the last 10 nearly giving it all away.Still, the 24th-ranked Spartans came away from the Battle 4 Atlantis with a win -- and the end of a brutally tough opening month of the schedule in sight.Miles Bridges scored 21 points to help Michigan State hold off Wichita State 77-72 on Friday in the Battle 4 Atlantis third-place game.Eron Harris added 13 points for the Spartans (4-3), who bounced back from Thursdays loss to No. 20 Baylor in a game that left coach Tom Izzo saying his injury-hit team looked awfully tired and maybe a bit overwhelmed by the early schedule.Theres no question that this team has been through a lot, Izzo said. But thats what I challenged them with. I dont challenge them with effort, heart, I dont challenge them very often with character issues. But I did challenge their character a little bit.Izzo said he sensed great focus from his players Friday morning.The most important thing is finding a way to get off the mat, he said. That is the most important lesson I can teach these guys whether it be in life or in basketball.Michigan State led by 18 midway through the half and held a 15-point lead with 8:05 left, only to see the Shockers (5-2) turn to fullcourt pressure to get back in it. Wichita State ran off a 14-0 run to get to 66-65 on Daishon Smiths layup over Bridges with 4:13 left.We got stops, Smith said. We were able to put our athleticism into the game, and thats what we did.But the Shockers couldnt quite push ahead. Bridges and fellow freshman Cassius Winston hit key 3-pointers. And when the Shockers had one more chance to tie it, Smith missed a long straightaway 3.Bridges grabbed the rebound and hit two clinching free throws with 4.7 seconds left.Darral Willis scored 16 points to lead Wichita State, which shot 36 percent.BIG PICTUREWichita State: As bad as things looked midway through the second half, the Shockers showed a downright scary fullcourt press to get back in it.dddddddddddd. Coach Gregg Marshall has tried to talk more about defense than the teams offensive potential during three days in Atlantis; that finish might have reinforced it to his team, too.Marshall also didnt rule out the possibility of using pressure defense more going forward.Ill just have to evaluate us and evaluate my coaching and evaluate our personnel and try to figure out a way to play more like the team in the second half than the team in the first half, he said.Michigan State: The Spartans looked fresh and showed a balanced offense for about 30 minutes. From there, they did just enough to hang on.We didnt beat the Lakers, but we won a big game, Izzo said, and we did it with old-style grit for 90 percent of that game.POLL IMPLICATIONSThe Spartans will give voters an interesting decision for the next AP Top 25 . Yes, all of the Spartans losses in this brutally tough opening month are to ranked teams. But will that be enough to keep a 4-3 team in the poll? Stay tuned.Wichita State had a shot to play its way in, but two straight losses to ranked opponents ended that chance for now.BRIDGES IN ATLANTISBridges, a 6-foot-7 freshman from Flint, Michigan, went 6 for 11 from the field and made 4 of 8 3-pointers.Once I get going, the basket opens up a little bit more for me, said Bridges, who scored 22 in the opener against St. Johns and had 15 against Baylor.UP NEXTWichita State: The Shockers return home for a Tuesday game against Southern Nazarene, a Division II program from Bethany, Oklahoma.Michigan State: Things dont get any easier for the Spartans. They travel to face No. 6 Duke in its famously hostile Cameron Indoor Stadium on Tuesday in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap---More AP colleg