Basket Esch C opened Phase 1 with a 69-48 home win over AS Soleuvre B and moved into 3rd place, while Soleuvre B stands 4th after the first round.
Roger Do Rosario's side shaped the game through two strong phases. Redzep Ramovic (LALC) scored Esch's first 8 points, but Sriram Venkata Satagopam (SOLB) answered with Soleuvre's first 6, bringing the score to 6-6. Esch then closed the first quarter on a 9-2 run for a 15-8 lead.
The second quarter created the decisive first break. Soleuvre had reduced the gap to 17-13, but Esch finished the half with a 21-6 spell to reach 38-19. Alim Durovic (LALC) was central in that stretch, with support from Gabriel Stefan Kühne Meza (LALC), Ennicky Semedo da Veiga (LALC) and Lucas Fioriti (LALC). The home team's lead peaked at 20 points before the break.
Pedro Jorge Escada Carvalho's team reacted well after halftime. Soleuvre won the third quarter 18-8, mainly behind Moreno Tomasini (SOLB), who gave the visitors real momentum. From 44-26, Soleuvre put together an 11-2 run and came back to 46-37 at the end of the period.
Esch's answer was immediate: an 8-0 start to the fourth quarter pushed the margin back to 54-37 and restored control. Kühne Meza led the winners with 15 points, Durovic added 12, Duarte Gonvalves Ponciano (LALC) had 11 and Ramovic 10. For Soleuvre, Tomasini led all scorers with 17 points, Satagopam contributed 10, and Melsen Louis-Moris Guy (SOLB) added 6. Semedo da Veiga, important in Esch's scoring inside, later fouled out with 9 points.
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