In mamkinnek, Mambra Mamer controlled AS Soleuvre 84-60 to open the M-U18 Division 3 Phase finale. After a tight first quarter (12-15), coach N'GUESSAN Junior Pacome's team flipped the game in the second with a 29-11 stretch built on stops and interior scoring. A key 8-0 run moved the score from 24-22 to 32-22, and Henry Alberto Murray (16, CHE; Season PPG: 16.1) then poured in five points in a row (two free throws and a three) to send Mamer to halftime up 41-26.
Post-break, Alexis Georges Bourgoignie Martin (Season PPG: 23.0) kept punishing inside, and Mamer's lead swelled to 65-43 after three. The hosts reached their largest margin at +28 (84-56) before Soleuvre trimmed late. Soleuvre coach Hervé Marie-Rose saw his side surge early behind captain Lex Lahure (Season PPG: 14.27), but Mamer's two-point efficiency and free-throw volume decided it: Mamer sank 32 two-pointers (64 points) and added 14 points at the line to Soleuvre's 3. Soleuvre made three triples to Mamer's two but couldn't offset the gap inside.
Top performers
- Mambra Mamer: Bourgoignie Martin 24 (11 2PTM, 2 FTM), Murray 20 (8 FTM, 2 threes), Tadas Stalauskas 11 (Season PPG: 9.6), Jonathan Henrik Wallenius 9 (Season PPG: 14.9), Luca Léon Schiano 8.
- AS Soleuvre: Pol Diedenhofen 17 (Season PPG: 11.82), Lex Lahure 15 (1 three), Malik Bah 13 (Season PPG: 10.36), Nik Lahure 10.
Notable sequence: in the second quarter, Soleuvre's Rafael Aguiar Sousa committed two P2 fouls with a personal foul in between, disrupting their momentum. No player fouled out.
Mamer also took the Phase 1 meeting (91-70) and snap a five-game losing run with this win. In the new classification, Mambra Mamer move to 1st (+1), while AS Soleuvre are 4th (-3).
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