Etzella Ettelbruck B controlled this Phase finale return game from the first quarter and beat Basket Esch B 84-52. After Esch briefly moved in front at 6-5, coach Guillaume Torres saw his team respond with a 15-2 run to close the opening period at 20-8. That first break already gave the game a clear direction.
The second quarter removed most of the suspense. Jason-Junior Almeida da Cruz stretched the margin to 23-10 from long range, and Ettelbruck later turned 23-14 into 43-20 with a strong 20-6 finish to the half. After the break, the home side opened with six unanswered points and kept adding pressure. When 14-year-old Yona Posing (Season PPG: 7.36) scored for 66-30 late in the third quarter, the lead reached 36, the biggest gap of the game. Basket Esch B reacted better in the last period and took it 22-18, but the contest was already under control. A late technical foul on Timéo Noah Wietnik and an unsportsmanlike foul on Edwin Pereira Furtado came in that phase.
Posing matched his season high with 21 points, including three 3-pointers. Charel Hilger (Season PPG: 6.76) also finished with 21 and equalled his best mark of the season. Rafael Caroux (Season PPG: 9.50) and Dino Dragolovcanin (Season PPG: 7.00) added 15 each for a very balanced Ettelbruck attack.
For Esch, 15-year-old French player Teoman Cemil Dalkilic (LALB) produced 17 points. Amilcar André Rodrigues Moreira (Season PPG: 8.44) and Leonardo Antuquia Lopes Cruz (Season PPG: 6.20) each scored 10.
Etzella took its second win over Esch in the current Phase finale, moved up one place to 3rd at 3-3, and stopped a three-game losing streak. Coach Stéphane Feller's team stayed 6th at 0-6 and has now lost six in a row.
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