Etzella Ettelbruck took control in stages and beat Arantia Larochette 73-56, completing a 2-0 season sweep in this Phase finale matchup. The result lifts ETZ three places to 1st at 4-2, while ARA remains 6th at 1-5. Coach Nelson Delgado's team is now on a 3-game winning streak; coach Karolis Abramavicius's side has lost three in a row.
The first quarter was balanced. Arantia moved in front 4-2 through Maximilien Nuss and Lars Bosdijk, but ETZ answered with 9 unanswered points and closed the period ahead 13-11. The key moment came at the start of the second quarter: Ettelbruck opened with a 12-0 run to turn 13-11 into 25-11. Arantia answered through Luca Valerius and two Nuss threes, yet ETZ still won the quarter 27-14 and went into halftime up 40-25. Mathis Dieterlen's technical foul came late in that phase.
ETZ stayed in control after the break. Noah Wolter, Giovanni Palermo Cardoso and Marvin Delgado dos Santos kept the home side moving and stretched the margin to 57-36 after three quarters. In the fourth, ETZ reached its highest lead at 69-39. Arantia then produced a 17-4 reaction, including the last 10 points of the game, but the deficit was already too large.
Lenny Lopes Morais (Season PPG: 17.88) led ETZ with 22 points, Delgado dos Santos (Season PPG: 24.33) added 21, and Wolter (Season PPG: 15.44) scored 12. That trio supplied 55 of ETZ's 73 points. For ARA, Nuss (Season PPG: 9.14) finished with 19 points, including three three-pointers, and Dieterlen (Season PPG: 17.88) had 16. Charel Wilmes fouled out for ETZ after picking up three fouls from the third quarter onward.
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