Black Star Mersch controlled the U18 Division 3 Phase 2 matchup in Zolwer/Scheierhaf, beating AS Soleuvre 105-83 after shaping the game with two major firsthalf surges. A 15-0 run flipped a 13-12 deficit into a 27-13 lead in the first quarter, and an even more damaging 13-0 burst in the second pushed the gap from 37-38 to 37-51. Coach Jérôme Hansen's group then managed every Soleuvre reaction.
AS Soleuvre fought back: they closed Q1 on an 11-2 answer and, led by Malik Bah and Lex Lahure, opened the third with a 14-3 run to pull within 54-56. From there, Sam Tibold steadied BSM with a personal streak late in the third (seven consecutive team points) and the visitors finished the period back up 60-73. In the fourth, Lahure briefly reignited SOL with back-to-back threes and a later triple (10 points in the quarter), but BSM stretched the highest lead to +25 before closing at +22.
The numbers underline BSM's dominance inside: 41 made 2-pointers to SOL's 27 (82-54 points in the paint/effective two-point scoring), plus 17 made free throws to SOL's 14. Tibold was relentless with 42 points (Season PPG: 25.88), while captain Trey Sean Boayue added 30 (Season PPG: 24.75) and Leandro Da Silva Nunes 20 (Season PPG: 12.14). For SOL, Rafael Aguiar Sousa and Pol Diedenhofen each scored 19, with Bah and Lahure adding 18 apiece; Diedenhofen later fouled out after a T1 earlier in Q2, a stretch in which SOL also received a bench technical on coach Hervé MarieRose, coinciding with BSM's 13-0 run. Tim Heiderscheid (SOL) chipped in a three.
BSM sits atop the group at 3-0, extending their winning streak to three. Soleuvre drops to 2-1 but remains second; their four-game streak ends here.
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