Basket Esch beat Black Frogs Schieren 74-45 in the W-Coupe Cadettes 1/8 finales in Schieren. The visitors jumped out 23-11 after the first quarter, with Emma Wallenborn (16, 1.68 m) and Ajla Adrovic (15) setting the tone. Schieren answered before the break: sparked by Ana Margarida Resende Cerqueira (17, PRT), the hosts pieced together a 16-1 run and cut it to 27-34 at halftime. Resende Cerqueira scored Black Frogs' last 10 points of the half, including a 3-pointer and four straight free throws.
The decisive stretch came right after the interval. Emilie Loesch (16) opened the third with 5 points in a row, igniting a 16-0 surge by Esch that blew the game open to 50-27. Basket Esch held Schieren to 4 points in the third (16-4), then kept control in the fourth, pushing the gap to a high of 31 points at 74-43 before the final 74-45.
Esch's scoring was balanced: Wallenborn led with 18 points, Loesch added 15 (three 3s), Estelle Birnbaum (14) had 10, captain Laure Valentin (17) 9, and Gwen Feller Birchen (18) 8. Adrovic chipped in 7, while Alma Maria Eudier (16, DEU) hit a late 3 and finished with 5. For Black Frogs, Resende Cerqueira topped all home scorers with 20 and produced a personal 7-0 burst late in Q2; Debora Teresa Dos Santos Kitumba (15, PRT) had 13 and Yana Ferreira (17) 10. Captain Kathrine Hansen (16) added 2.
Coach Karim Elbaoune's team imposed its rhythm after the break. In the fourth quarter, Black Frogs coach Diogo Jesus Lopes received a bench technical (B1).
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