AS Soleuvre controlled this Phase finale game from the opening minutes and won 101-81 at T71 Dudelange, their third win over T71 this season. The visitors, now 1st in the table after a gain of two places (4-1), set the tone with a 9-0 start and were already clear at 30-11 after one quarter. T71, now 3rd and down one spot (2-3), never fully recovered from that first break.
Coach Luc Loesch's team kept the pressure on in the second quarter. Soleuvre went from 32-17 to 42-19 with Lou Lahure (Season PPG: 25.13) scoring eight straight points in that spell, and the gap reached 22 at halftime, 52-30. Lahure, the 14-year-old captain, produced a major scoring game with 39 points, including 16 made 2-pointers, 1 three and 4 free throws, matching his season high.
T71 reacted well after the break. Charel Krings (Season PPG: 6.93) and Lorenzo Magoum (Season PPG: 14.83) sparked the comeback, and Daniel Wolf's side won the third quarter 26-19. The home team cut the margin to 10 at 50-60 and stayed within reach at 58-71 entering the last period.
The key stretch came early in the fourth. Soleuvre answered immediately, extending the lead from 71-58 to 85-60 and later to a highest margin of 27 points at 93-66. Timéo Weber (Season PPG: 19.67) added 24 points, Phillipe Vieira Geraldes (Season PPG: 21.57) had 20, and Leo Loesch contributed 7.
For T71, Magoum finished with 16, Krings with 15, Ben Kloos (Season PPG: 13.67) with 14 and Pol Guedes (Season PPG: 11.07) with 11. Thirteen-year-old Croatian Ivan Barbic also gave solid support with 8 points.
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