Bascharage Hedgehogs, now 3rd after a one-place gain, beat 5th-placed Sparta Bertrange B 79-63 in a game that stayed tight for a long time before opening up after the break. For BAS, it is a second straight win after two losses; SPAB is now on a four-game losing run.
The first quarter belonged to Sparta B, 19-12. They started 4-0, then resisted a 10-0 Bascharage burst that turned 0-6 into 10-6. Sparta answered with a strong finish to the period, including two threes from Mathieu Meurs and Yann Kunzer Da Silva. Bascharage reacted well in the second quarter. From 12-19, the home side put together an 8-0 run to move ahead 20-19, and after several lead changes the game reached halftime at 37-35.
The crucial passage came in the third quarter. Sparta tied it at 37-37, but Bascharage then produced a 10-0 run to 47-37, with Gil Schmit (17, 1.82m) and Mathis Fischer (16) driving the offense. BAS won the quarter 21-11 and carried a 58-46 lead into the last period. Sparta still threatened: from 64-48, they scored 12 unanswered points to cut the gap to 64-60, with Konstantinos Laliotis (17) central in that push. That was the close-game moment. Bascharage answered immediately with a 15-3 finish.
Schmit led BAS with 23 points, Fischer added 17 despite four personal fouls, and David Alves Dos Santos (16) scored 14. Tom Kruchten (16) gave an important late lift with 10 points, including two threes. For Sparta B, Laliotis scored 20 and kept them alive deep into the fourth quarter, while Hugo Dubois (16) and Kunzer Da Silva (17) both added 11. Coach Veljko Dragasevic saw his team's best stretch come in the middle of the game, while Sparta, coached by Christophe Dubois, had a strong opening and one last fourth-quarter surge.
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