Nitia Bettembourg controlled this M-U16 Division 4 Phase 1 game from the opening minutes and beat Telstar Hesperange 84-59 at home. The result moved NIT to first place, up one position, with a 4-0 record and a four-game winning streak. TEL, now 1-3, also gained one place and stands fourth.
The game flow was clear very early. Coach Jérôme Defer's team opened 6-0, then stretched the margin to 11-4 and 19-4 before closing the first quarter 25-10. Ewen Man-Fei Leung (14, NIT) set the tone inside that start, while Adrian Ion Zianveni (14, NIT) added an early three-pointer.
TEL tried to respond at the start of the second period, cutting the score to 25-14, but that became a crucial moment: NIT answered with an 11-0 run to 36-14. Matia Eduardo Lumbu (13, NIT), Dinis Jorge Cruz Rica (15, NIT), Charles Kohn (15, NIT) and Daniel Hammouda (14, NIT) all contributed in that phase. Bettembourg went into halftime with a solid 46-24 lead.
Telstar showed its best stretch in the third quarter. Mathis Adehm (15, TEL) and Tao Raphaël Ozier-Lafontaine (14, TEL) helped bring the score from 57-34 down to 57-40, with Adehm scoring repeatedly during that sequence. Still, NIT answered again and finished the quarter ahead 64-42.
Early in the fourth, Bettembourg reached its highest lead at 70-42. Leung remained the main finisher and closed with 22 points. Zianveni had 14, including 2 made three-pointers, Diogo Barbosa Conte (14, NIT) added 11, and Yohannes Thomas Michael (12, NIT) scored 10. For TEL, Adehm led with 18, Ozier-Lafontaine had 12, and Martin Fritsch (13, TEL) produced 9 with one made three-pointer.
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