Second-placed Telstar Hesperange controlled this M-U16 Division 4 game from the first quarter on and beat fifth-placed Bascharage Hedgehogs 88-43. Telstar answered its opening loss with a first win of the season, while Bascharage started 0-2.
The start was still competitive. Bascharage went up 2-0 through Flavio Bogatu (BAS), but Telstar quickly settled and turned that into a 9-4 edge. The home side led 19-11 after one quarter, then broke the game open completely in the second period. Telstar opened that quarter with an 8-0 run for 27-11, and after Bascharage cut it to 33-15, the hosts closed the half with 20 unanswered points to reach 53-15. That was the decisive stretch.
Telstar kept the pressure after the break and pushed the margin to 82-28 in the fourth quarter, their highest lead at 54 points. Bascharage had a better final period at 17-15, but the gap was already too large.
Axel Jean-Louis Bernard Hosten (TEL) led all scorers with 25 points and was on a clear roll in the middle quarters. Tao Raphaël Ozier-Lafontaine (TEL) added 18, Mathis Adehm (TEL) scored 17 after an active first half, and Stanislaw Jan Kwasniewski (TEL) gave 12, including a third-quarter three-pointer. Coach Uchenna Okpani also got points from eight different players.
For Bascharage, Auric Kirsch (BAS) and Bogatu (BAS) finished with 9 points each, Ilija Radojevic (15, BAS) added 8 in his first game of this competition, and Léi Bernard (BAS) had 6. Alex Mailliet (BAS) picked up two fouls early in the first quarter, which made Bascharage's defensive task harder during Telstar's big second-quarter surge.
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