Basket Esch opened the Championship Round with a clear 87-52 win over AS Soleuvre at esch/ho3, built on a decisive second quarter and sustained control after halftime. Soleuvre started sharply behind 15-year-old Nik Lahure's 2+1 and another basket (five early points), but Esch closed the first period ahead 17-12. The game broke open with an 8-0 burst to start Q2 (Edmilson Vieira Miguel 5 points in that span, then Faisal Abdirizak Mohamed's triple) and a 27-9 quarter that sent the hosts to the locker room up 44-21.
After the break, Gabriel Thomas (14, FRA) steered Esch's offense with 9 points in the third as the lead stretched to 68-36. The highest margin hit +36 (76-40) early in the fourth. Coach Vincent Gevrey's side used timely timeouts (one midway through Q2, another early Q4) to keep momentum, while Olivier Haan tried to halt runs with breaks late in Q1 and at the 10th minute of Q4.
Paul Blettery (15, FRA) led Esch with 20 points before fouling out late; he had steady scoring stretches across all quarters. Thomas added 15, captain Maël Gevrey (Season PPG: 13.33) posted 14 with two fourth-quarter daggers from deep, and Abdirizak Mohamed (14, SOM) contributed 12, including two first-half triples. Miguel chipped in 10.
For Soleuvre, Lahure tallied 15 and repeatedly drew trips to the line, while Yann Conan scored 11 and Max Kunen 8. Soleuvre found a brief spark through Nils Krantz and Conan early in Q3 but never reduced the gap meaningfully.
Esch's run of form continues (two straight wins), and they sit 1st in the table (1-0). Soleuvre drop to 2nd (0-1) after a three-game winning sequence was halted.
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