Rebound Préizerdaul overturned a 12-point halftime deficit to edge Basket Esch C 47-40 in the M-U14 Division 7 Phase 2 opener at esch/ho4. Esch, under coach Karim Elbaoune, started fast with a 6-0 burst and controlled the first half 12-8, 14-6, behind the inside finishing of Gabriel Stefan Kühne Meza (Season PPG: 6.2), who poured in eight points in the second quarter and had 16 by the break as LALC led 26-14.
Coach Datan Oliveira Mendes' team flipped the game after halftime with a decisive third-quarter response. Préizerdaul strung together a 12-0 run midway through the period to turn 32-22 into 32-34, powered by Guilherme Filipe Marques Casqueira (Season PPG: 16.0), the 13-year-old Portuguese guard, who scored 10 in the quarter. Jaylen Joseph Simões Marbes (Season PPG: 9.6) added seven in that frame, and Maxime Hengen (Season PPG: 6.4) chipped in four. PRE took its first lead at 35-34 to end the third.
Préizerdaul then opened the fourth with a 6-0 push and later stretched the gap to a game-high +9 (38-47) before closing it out. The visitors' second half totaled 33 points (21 in Q3, 12 in Q4) after managing just 14 before the break.
Top performers
- Rebound Préizerdaul: Marques Casqueira 18, Simões Marbes 11, Hengen 10. Stella Fantini (Season PPG: 3.2) and Gaetano Vincenzo Morocutti (Season PPG: 4.4) added important buckets, while Ivan Adriano Muller (PRE) scored in the fourth.
- Basket Esch C: Kühne Meza 18, Leonardo Leoci (Season PPG: 2.8) 10, Nikola Mander Tavan (LALC) 4.
Notably, the game saw no three-pointers and just a single made free throw (Simões). The result halts Préizerdaul's four-game losing slide and lifts them to 2nd in the Phase 2 standings (1-0), with Esch C at 3rd (0-1).
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