North Fox B took control after the break and won 57-44 at Résidence Walferdange B. The game was balanced for a long time: RESB started 5-0, FOXB answered with 10 straight points for an 12-8 lead, and Walferdange B finished the first quarter on a 7-0 run to go back in front, 15-12. At halftime, the margin was still minimal at 24-23.
The decisive stretch came in the third quarter. After RESB briefly moved to 26-25, North Fox B produced a 12-0 run, from 28-26 to 37-26, with Fynn Schlechter (17, 1.75m), Dozie Bowei (26, NGA) and Tom Uding (29, 1.85m) all scoring in that sequence. That changed the game. FOXB then kept the lead between 7 and 16 points for the rest of the evening, with the highest gap coming late.
Pol Linden (22, 1.78m) led the winners with 13 points, including two late baskets and a three-pointer in the last quarter. Bowei added 11, Uding 10, and Mensanh Théodore Adjogbovi (20) scored 8. Alexis Sia Vanhems (22, 1.94m) gave FOXB 6 points early and helped set the tone.
For RESB, Miguel Gonzalez Vargas (48, ESP) finished with 9 points, while Moritz Wagner (40, DEU) and Mihnea-Cristian Fulop (32, ROU) scored 6 each. Razvan-Alexandru Purice (41, ROU), Raphael Barelli (36, FRA) and Patricio Novales Peleato (41, ESP) all had 5. RESB had some difficult foul sequences in the second half, especially Wagner, who picked up three fouls in the third quarter.
In the new classification, North Fox B moved up three places to 1st at 2-0, while Résidence Walferdange B is 7th at 0-2.
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