AS Soleuvre C handled Telstar Hesperange B 59-32 in Zolwer/Scheierhaff, sweeping the season series after the 51-40 win in October. Tim Geiben's team set the tone with a 25-16 first quarter and broke the game open with a 10-0 second quarter, leading 35-16 at halftime.
Telstar reacted after the break: Rodrigo Rico Gomez (28, ESP; Season PPG: 5.91) strung together three straight baskets for a personal 6-0, sparking a 10-0 team run that cut the gap to 35-26. Promitheas Peridis' side briefly had momentum, but SOLC answered emphatically. The hosts opened the fourth with a 15-0 burst Cédric Demontis (Season PPG: 11.0) from deep, then Tom Lahure (Season PPG: 13.88), Vincent Sunnen (31), and Gary André Pleimling (Season PPG: 9.0) piling on to reach the night's largest lead at +29 (55-26).
Lahure led SOLC with 17, including a personal 5-0 in the first quarter that steadied the home side. Sunnen and Pleimling added 12 each, and Demontis chipped in 5 with a key early fourth-quarter three. For Telstar, Rico Gomez finished with 10, Juan Menacho de Gongora (Season PPG: 12.6) had 9, and 18-year-old Guilherme Andrade Lopes Rodrigues (PRT) hit a first-quarter three and totaled 5. Ioannis Papoulidis (Season PPG: 13.3) was limited to 4 and picked up two quick fouls in the third, slowing Telstar's surge.
In the standings, Soleuvre climb to 3rd (+2), now on a five-game winning streak. Telstar remain 10th and have dropped three in a row. The decisive stretches SOLC's 10-0 in Q2 and 15-0 to start Q4 defined the game's evolution.
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