Amicale Steesel won the decisive U22 semi-final at Soleuvre, 85-77, and moved on after a game that turned through runs.
Soleuvre opened better and led 16-13 after the first quarter. Cyprien Gabriel Julien Brochot-Carric (19, FRA) was active early, while Sandro Sana Sanches Gomes Junior (Season PPG: 17.29) gave the home side scoring from inside and outside. Early in the second period, Ibrahim Hasic (Season PPG: 18.80) and Mathis Guiot (Season PPG: 8.90) helped SOL reach 25-17.
That stretch was followed by the key swing of the game. Amicale closed the half on an 18-4 run to go in front 35-29. Noah Terence Stansbury Daleiden (AMI) hit two threes, Sean Bugeja (Season PPG: 18.40) scored 7 points in a row, and Bob Rech (Season PPG: 15.67) added another triple.
The visitors took stronger control in the third quarter. Rech opened the half with a three, Jules Reuter (Season PPG: 9.38) followed from deep, and Amicale pushed the gap to 51-33, the biggest lead of the evening at 18 points. Soleuvre answered with a 12-2 run, driven by Brochot-Carric and Mathys Ntemo (Season PPG: 9.67), cutting it to 45-53, but Dorian Scheltien (AMI) stopped that momentum with a late three for 57-45.
Soleuvre kept coming in the fourth. Hasic, Guiot and Sanches Gomes Junior reduced the deficit several times, and captain Sandro Romao Sanches Gomes Barros (Season PPG: 5.00) made it 77-82 with a late three. Amicale stayed composed through Rech at the line and a late basket by Georges Kühn (Season PPG: 0.69).
Bugeja finished with 22 points, Rech 19, Landon Wohl (Season PPG: 7.79) 15, Stansbury Daleiden 13 and Reuter 11 for Amicale. Soleuvre was led by Sanches Gomes Junior with 24 and Brochot-Carric with 21, but Brochot-Carric fouled out after second-half foul trouble, and Hasic also went out with five fouls.
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