Basket Esch took a clear 96-56 win over Résidence Walferdange in the phase finale and moved up to 1st place at 5-0, while RES dropped to 3rd. It was also a seventh straight win for Esch.
The game was competitive only in the first quarter. Esch opened 6-0 through Rodrigo Pacheco Reis (Season PPG: 17.31) and Lorenzo Vetro, but RES stayed close behind Kasparas Voska (Season PPG: 30.86), who scored 10 straight Walferdange points in the first period. Esch still led 23-17 after 10 minutes.
The decisive stretch came in the second quarter. From 29-20, Basket Esch produced a 15-0 run to 44-20 and broke the game open before halftime at 50-28. Coach Raouf Riahi's team then removed any suspense in the third quarter: after the break, Esch turned 50-28 into 69-30, a 19-2 surge. The lead kept growing and reached 40 points at the end.
Esch had impressive balance with six scorers at 11 points or more: Pacheco Reis 20, Vetro 17 despite early foul trouble, Mathéo Muratovic (Season PPG: 16.92) 16, Arthur Léo Pierre Colle, 13, from France (Season PPG: 12.87) 14, Berin Hajdarpasic (Season PPG: 11.28) 12, and Lyan Gomes da Cruz (Season PPG: 8.20) 11. Loris Micelli added a three-pointer and finished with 3.
For RES, Voska carried most of the scoring load with 28 points, exactly half of his team's total. Stefans Grandovskis added 8, while Jonas Mikucionis and Joaquym Questier each scored 7. Coach Steve Stéphane Alexandre's side had stayed in touch early, but the second and third quarters were too one-sided.
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