Fourth-ranked Bascharage Hedgehogs ended a three-game losing streak with a 76-66 win on the floor of leaders Mambra Mamer, moving up one place in the standings while Mamer remained first.
Florian Reinke's team started well. Tadas Stalauskas and Alexis Georges Bourgoignie Martin gave MAM an 8-2 lead, and Bourgoignie Martin helped extend it to 14-7. Bascharage reacted quickly. Kodjovi Armel Yohann Koutsawa (Season PPG: 18.40) scored 12 points in the first quarter, Gil Schmit (16, 1.82m) hit two early threes, and BAS closed the period with a 14-4 run to lead 21-18.
Bascharage then pushed further in the second quarter and built the game's biggest lead at 38-26. Jonathan Henrik Wallenius (Season PPG: 16.69) kept Mamer alive before halftime, cutting the gap to 32-38.
The third quarter was Mamer's best spell. Wallenius went on a major roll and scored 12 of his team's 14 points during a 14-1 surge from 41-49 to 55-50. That gave MAM control entering the last period. Wallenius finished with 32 points, matching his season high. Bourgoignie Martin (Season PPG: 21.57) added 16, and Stalauskas (Season PPG: 9.77) had 14.
Bascharage decided the game in the fourth. After Becker's three made it 58-53 for Mamer, BAS answered with 12 straight points to flip the score to 65-58. Koutsawa and Alessandro Goncalves da Cruz (Season PPG: 6.33) were central in that stretch. Schmit finished with 22 points, including four threes and the last two free throws after three late consecutive fouls by Luca Léon Schiano. Koutsawa also scored 22, all on two-pointers, while Goncalves da Cruz added 17. Bascharage's top three produced 61 points; Mamer's main trio answered with 62.
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