BBC East Side Pirates beat Basket Esch B 80-45 in this M-U18 Division 4 Phase 1 game and jumped to 1st place, a gain of five positions after opening their season with a loss. Basket Esch B remained 3rd and is now 0-2.
Under coach Gérard Boby, BEP needed only a few minutes to take control. LALB briefly led 4-2, but the Pirates answered with an 8-0 run to go ahead 10-4. After Esch had reduced the gap to 12-9, BEP finished the first quarter with another 8 unanswered points for a 20-9 edge.
The game opened fully in the second quarter. BEP won the period 26-7 and built the decisive separation before halftime, 46-16. Sam Schaeffer (BEP) was at the center of that stretch, while Dany Toth Gomes (BEP) scored six points on two straight threes in the quarter.
The Pirates kept the pressure after the break, moving to 50-16 early in the third and then to 60-25 after three quarters. Their highest lead came at 68-25 in the fourth. Basket Esch B, coached by Jean-Pierre Guillot, still produced a reaction with an 18-2 run to cut the margin to 70-43. Charles Widong (LALB) led that response, with support from Emir Huremovic (LALB) and David Dimic (LALB). BEP then closed with a 10-2 finish.
Schaeffer (BEP) led all scorers with 27 points. Yannis Pividor (BEP) added 17, and Tristan Noël Fievez (BEP) brought 10. For LALB, Widong (LALB) finished with 14 points, Mathis Bath Rama (LALB) scored 6, and Huremovic (LALB) plus Dimic (LALB) added 5 each. Dimic and Nolan Alvard both ended with four fouls for Esch.
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