Bascharage Hedgehogs, 5th in the standings, answered well against 4th-placed Etzella Ettelbruck B and took a close 77-70 win in Bascharage after losing the first meeting 96-62 in January. For BAS, it also stopped a three-game losing run.
The game stayed tight for a long time. The first quarter ended 14-14, with Dino Dragolovcanin and Mikayel Stepanyan giving ETZB the early push, while Samuel Louis Hobby replied for the home side. In the second period Bascharage moved in front at 22-17, but Etzella closed the half on an 11-4 run to lead 28-26.
That momentum carried into the third quarter. ETZB opened the half with five straight points and reached a 33-26 lead, later keeping control at 42-36. Bascharage then produced the key swing: a 16-4 run to close the quarter, turning a six-point deficit into a 52-46 advantage. Tom Kruchten and Hobby were central in that stretch.
The fourth quarter remained open. Dragolovcanin scored seven ETZB points in a row and put the visitors back ahead at 55-52. From there, Kruchten took over for William Jacques Guenfissi's team. The BAS captain finished with 34 points (season PPG: 13.00), including 10 major points in the middle of the last period, and Hobby added 32 (season PPG: 10.71). Together they scored 66 of Bascharage's 77 points. Ilija Radojevic, the 15-year-old Serbian forward, added 5.
For Guillaume François Torres's side, Dragolovcanin delivered 33 points (season high), and captain Rafael Caroux added 21. ETZB stayed close at 69-67, but Bascharage answered with an 8-0 run to create its biggest lead at 77-67 before Yona Posing hit the final three.
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