AS Soleuvre controlled Bascharage Hedgehogs 93-66 in the M-Nationale 2 round-robin, flipping the game after a slow start and dominating the middle stretch. Bascharage edged the first quarter 22-20, sparked by Jeffrey Early Jr. (Season PPG: 26.89) who strung together five straight points early, and by Veljko Dragasevic (Season PPG: 15.63). Coach Eric Bettini's team responded with a 25-16 second quarter, Parker's interior scoring and Haris Redzepagic's perimeter touch pushing Soleuvre to 45-38 at the break despite two Bascharage timeouts.
The third quarter decided it. Soleuvre opened on a 13-4 burst to 58-42, with captain Gilles Weis (Season PPG: 10.56) drilling from deep and Christian Jeffrey Parker (Season PPG: 23.78) steady at the line and in the paint. An unsportsmanlike foul on Teodor Lukic at 55-42 added to Bascharage's problems, and Weis added two more triples in the period as the gap stretched to 71-49. The hosts' largest lead reached 27 in the fourth.
Soleuvre's non-local contingent led by Parker (32 pts, 23 years old, USA) and the energetic Brochot-Carric (SOL) with 13 complemented the home-grown core: Weis had 20 with five threes, Redzepagic (Season PPG: 2.38) chipped 9, while Cirikovic and Ntemo added useful points. Sandro Sanches Gomes Junior (Season PPG: 10.0) scored 7 despite four fouls. Soleuvre sank 10 triples overall.
For Bascharage, Dragasevic hit 24 with four threes and Early added 18. Aziz Ndiaye (2.03m, 28) had 8, and Odysseas Papadopoulos 6, but the supporting group was kept in check and Lukic's U2 in Q3 proved costly. Coach Goran Lukic's side has now dropped four straight.
In the table, Soleuvre climbs to 7-2 and second place (+2). Bascharage sits seventh (+1) at 3-6.
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