Sparta Bertrange C controlled Basket Esch C 72-43 in the M-U16 Division 7 Phase 2 round-robin at atert/central, leaning on a dominant third quarter to settle matters early. SPAC opened 11-2 and led 23-10 after the first period. Esch responded in the second behind a personal 6-0 burst by Emir Huremovic (LALC), but SPAC still took a 34-20 cushion to the break. The game broke open after halftime: a 28-8 third quarter, fueled by relentless inside scoring and a timely triple, pushed the gap to 62-28. The highest lead reached +40 at 68-28 early in the fourth. Esch finished with a 13-0 run to get to 70-43 before SPAC closed it out.
Andrew Blanchard (Season PPG: 7.11; 15, USA) delivered a standout 32 points, including a third-quarter three and steady trips to the line. Lukas Maver (Season PPG: 14.0) added 22, scoring in every quarter and repeatedly finding seams in transition and half-court sets. Oskar Nagy (12, SVN) chipped in 8, with a strong surge in the third. Contributions also came from Francesco Morpurgo (Season PPG: 7.2) with 4, while Tommaso Guglielmi (SPAC), Miguel Henrique Tegethoff Sereno (Season PPG: 6.5) and Samuele Mondello (Season PPG: 3.67) added important minutes and points.
For Esch, Redzep Ramovic (Season PPG: 6.6) led with 9 points, supported by Semin Demirovic (Season PPG: 2.2) and Paul Augustine Mendy Cardenas (Season PPG: 4.0) with 7 each. Joao Carlos Dos Santos Vieira (LALC) and Huremovic (LALC) scored 6 apiece, and Duarte Gonvalves Ponciano (LALC) had 5. Esch's best spell came late, when they strung together that 13-0 run, but the deficit from the third quarter proved too large.
Coach Frédéric François Agelan's side managed the tempo from the start, while Darren Marschal's team used timeouts in both halves to stem momentum. In the new classification, SPAC moves to 3rd, while Esch sits 4th at 0-2 and remains winless. SPAC returns to winning ways; Esch's sequence extends to five straight losses.
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