Basket Esch D won a close road game, 45-42 at North Fox C, and moved up one place to 4th in M-Division 4. North Fox C stayed 9th and still without a win.
FOXC opened the game better. Fábio Samuel Mauricio Gomes (Season PPG: 12.89), the 26-year-old 1.92m Portuguese forward/center, scored the first 7 points for the home side and helped build a 7-0 start. LALD settled after that and closed the first quarter on a 13-5 run to lead 13-12, with Noah Schwarz (Season PPG: 18.55) already making a clear impact.
The visitors controlled the middle part of the game. In the second quarter, Basket Esch stretched the margin to 29-21 at halftime, then reached its highest lead at 34-23 in the third. Schwarz finished with 20 points, including four three-pointers, while Richard Czerwonka (Season PPG: 4.71) added 9 and Eliaz Kaiser (Season PPG: 5.75) scored 8.
North Fox stayed in touch almost entirely through Mauricio Gomes, who produced 21 of his team's 42 points. He scored 7 in a row early and later kept FOXC alive again despite already having three fouls by the third quarter. Alexandre Teixeira Badois (Season PPG: 4.71) and Mensanh Théodore Adjogbovi (Season PPG: 5.93) both added 6.
The key moment came in the fourth quarter. After LALD led 41-32, FOXC answered with an 8-0 run: Christian Pauwels hit a three, Mauricio Gomes added another triple, and captain Mett Wald converted two free throws to cut the gap to 41-40. Basket Esch stayed composed. Stevica Varadinac scored inside for 43-40, Adjogbovi answered with two free throws for 43-42, and late free throws from Kevin Mendes Lousada and Raouf Riahi secured the win. For LALD, it was a good response after their previous loss.
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