Black Star Mersch dominated AS Soleuvre 78-19 in Zolwer, controlling the game from the opening tip. The visitors opened with an 11-0 run, set the tone with a 13-2 first quarter, and went to halftime up 32-10. The third quarter decided everything: BSM ripped a 24-0 surge from 14-36 to 14-60, a sequence powered by the Schreiner sisters and steady trips to the line, before closing at a game-high margin of +59.
BSM's scoring was deep and balanced. Catherine Max (Season PPG: 12.6) and Nele Trommer (12; 1.84m, 21, DEU) set the interior platform early, with Trommer scoring four in a row to make it 0-6. Sara Dumont (11; Season PPG: 7.6) and Jo Marie-L. Schreiner (11; Season PPG: 7.0) kept the tempo after the break, while Jessie Kettel (10; Season PPG: 6.8) buried two threes in the last period. Lynn Eliane Schreiner (7; Season PPG: 9.2) added a third-quarter triple, and Nina Goedert (5; Season PPG: 9.8) was perfect at the stripe. Coach Lance Channing Legister leaned on a rotation that never let the intensity drop.
For Soleuvre, the domestic core produced most of the points: Aline Rocha (SOL) led with 8, supported by Leonor Camara da Silva (4; Season PPG: 6.2) and Daiane Tavares da Silva (4; Season PPG: 5.0), with Kimberley Mencler (Season PPG: 3.2) adding 1. In the other contingent, Sarah Montcho (18, DEU) scored 2, while young pieces Angele Rita Gomes Mendy (18, ESP) and Yara Haddi (16) could not find the basket. Foul trouble hurt SOL's rhythm: Camara da Silva and Rocha each picked up four, including two quick whistles in the second quarter for Camara da Silva.
Game evolution mattered: two timeouts (mid-1st and mid-3rd) could not halt BSM's runs, capped by four made threes on the night and a constant stream of points in the paint and at the line. BSM remain unbeaten (5-0) and climb to 2nd in the W-Nationale 2 classification, their fifth win in a row. Soleuvre fall to 0-5 and stay 13th. Coach Pedro Jorge Escada Carvalho's side will look for a reset after a long night on both ends.
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