Basket Esch won 91-79 at Résidence Walferdange and completed a clear season sweep after the 92-56 result in the first meeting. The success also lifted Esch to 6th place (+1) in the M-U22 classification, while Walferdange stayed 8th and absorbed an 11th straight defeat.
The game was shaped by Esch's stronger middle phases. After a competitive first quarter at 23-27, Walferdange came back to 27-27 early in the second period, but Dejan Pavlovic's team answered with a decisive 9-0 run and stretched the margin as far as 17 points, 44-27. Luka Stankovic (Season PPG: 10.60) was central in that control phase and finished with 21 points, while Deni Sabotic (Season PPG: 16.91) added 17 and Malik Demirovic (Season PPG: 9.27) 15.
Walferdange reacted well after the break. John Clark Slajchert's side trimmed the gap from 51-63 to 62-65 late in the third quarter, with Kristupas Zilionis, Maurice Grivet (Season PPG: 14.93) and Victor Shungu Bonga (Season PPG: 14.00) all contributing in that push. That made the game feel open again.
Esch controlled the key moments in the last quarter. Stankovic scored four straight points to open it, and Kevin Kelechi Nnganyadi then changed the rhythm with three 3-pointers in the period. Demirovic also hit from deep, and Esch rebuilt a double-digit cushion that Walferdange never erased.
Esch had five scorers in double figures, with Edi Sabotic (Season PPG: 8.50) on 12 and the 17-year-old, 2.00m Emmanuel Jesus Frederico from Cape Verde adding 10. For Walferdange, Elvio Amen Alissoutin (Season PPG: 10.80) led with 21 points, ahead of Shungu Bonga's 14, Grivet's 13 and Teodor Lukic's 11.
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