Nitia Bettembourg controlled Sparta Bertrange B 91-66 in a Phase finale round-robin game at nikibett/central, turning a tight start into a one-sided second half. SPAB, guided by coach Tine Nagy, edged the first quarter 21-19 behind early baskets from Oskar Nagy (12, SVN) and William Norregaard Vasdo-Jensen. The game pivoted in the second: coach Jérôme Defer's Nitia strung together an 8-0 run (Ewen ManFei Leung, Yohannes Thomas Michael, Luca Marnach de Angelis) to flip 23-19 into 23-27. SPAB briefly replied with a Ioannis Paspaltzis triple and a Vasdo-Jensen bucket to regain 30-29, but Nitia closed the half up 36-43 on steady scoring from Michael and Adrian Ion Zianveni.
The decisive stretch came right after the break. Nitia opened the third with a 6-0 burst and Leung (13, FRA) poured in 6 of Nitia's first 8 points, pushing the margin into double digits. SPAB tried to stay in touch through Djulian Lewis Lima Pires and a Nagy three, yet Nitia kept answering Leung repeatedly scoring on consecutive possessions and Zianveni active inside entering the fourth at 55-68. In the final quarter, Diogo Barbosa Conte added points at the line and in the lane, Paspaltzis knocked down his second three for SPAB, but Michael and Leung closed it out, the lead peaking at 25.
Leung led all scorers with 40. Michael (Season PPG: 15.30) added 15, Barbosa Conte 14, and Zianveni 14 before fouling out an important piece for Nitia (Season PPG: 20.40) who still kept control. For SPAB, Nagy paced with 24, Paspaltzis 12, Vasdo-Jensen 10.
Nitia, who had already beaten SPAB 82-66 earlier this season, climb to 3rd in the Phase finale standings (+1), while SPAB remain 6th and slide to a three-game losing run. Nitia have now won back-to-back games after a brief stumble in their recent sequence.
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