Basket Esch B overpowered Arantia Larochette B, 107-40, in M-U16 Division 5 Phase 1 at esch/ho4. The tone was set immediately: Esch opened on a 13-0 run before Arantia could get on the board, forcing an early timeout at 3'. The hosts closed the first quarter up 25-6 and repeated the control in the second (26-6) for a 51-12 halftime lead.
After the break, Arantia produced their best spell with 20 points in the third, highlighted by Noe Bissen (ARAB) scoring five in a row with a two and a three. Esch, however, kept answering and finished with a 30-8 fourth period, pushing the highest lead to 67 at the buzzer.
Esch did their damage inside: 49 made two-pointers and just one three. Edwin Pereira Furtado (LALB) added three free throws in a row early in the fourth after a foul sequence, and the hosts totaled six points at the line. Arantia had 17 twos, two threes, and no points from the stripe.
Individually, 12-year-old Lionel Matheis Gamba (LALB) led all scorers with 25, built on twelve 2-point field goals and a late free throw. Edwin Pereira Furtado (LALB), 13, added 18 with one triple and steady scoring across all quarters. Ismail Brik (LALB) had 14, Jake Feller Birchen (LALB) 11, while captain Amir Hamza (LALB) chipped in 10. For Arantia, captain Fabio Valerius (ARAB) scored 12 and later played on four fouls; Bissen (ARAB) had 9 with a three, Rui Carlos Silva (ARAB) 7 including a triple, Noa Franssens (ARAB) 6, Enal Jonathan Rodrigues Pinto (ARAB) 4 and Finn Brosius (ARAB) 2.
Under coach Stephane Feller, Basket Esch B move to 3-0 and first place (+1). Coach Michael Anthony Jones' Arantia fall to 0-3 and 6th (-1). Esch have now won three in a row.
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