Mambra Mamer took control after an even first quarter and won 95-66 at Soleuvre, in a Phase finale game that moved MAM up three places to 1st and left SOL 3rd despite the defeat.
The opening period was balanced at 21-21. Soleuvre had small leads at 10-6 and 21-17, but Mamer stayed close behind the scoring of 16-year-old Spaniard Alexis Georges Bourgoignie Martin (Season PPG: 22.67), who already had 15 points in the first quarter.
The game changed in the second period. After Nik Lahure's three gave SOL a 24-21 edge, Luca Léon Schiano (Season PPG: 6.00) scored six Mamer points in a row to flip the score. Later, MAM produced an 8-0 run from 37-31 to 45-31, with Bourgoignie Martin and Ignas Simkus (Season PPG: 3.64) pushing the pace. That quarter ended 24-12 for the visitors and gave coach Florian Reinke's side a 45-33 halftime lead.
Soleuvre reacted early in the third. Captain Lex Lahure (Season PPG: 17.00) scored seven straight points to cut the gap from 48-33 to 50-40. It was the closest SOL came to a real comeback. Mamer answered immediately with a 10-0 run to 62-45, helped by Henry Murray (Season PPG: 16.69) and Tadas Stalauskas (Season PPG: 9.86). Soleuvre coach Hervé Marie-Rose was charged with a technical during that phase.
Bourgoignie Martin finished with 38 points, a season high, and Mamer also got 14 from Murray, 13 from Schiano, plus 11 each from Stalauskas and Simkus. For Soleuvre, Lahure scored 24, Pol Diedenhofen (Season PPG: 12.81) added 15, and Malik Bah (Season PPG: 11.81) had 12. Mamer's lead grew to 32 points late in the fourth quarter before the final margin settled at 29.
It was Mamer's third win in three meetings with Soleuvre this season after earlier results of 91-70 and 84-60.
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