Etzella Ettelbruck opened its M-U14 Division 2 campaign with a 70-51 home win over AB Contern and moved to 1st place, while Contern is 2nd after the first round-robin game.
The game changed sharply after a balanced opening. Etzella started 7-2 through early scoring from Lenn Dos Santos (ETZ) and Lenny Weber (ETZ), but Contern answered with a strong 15-5 finish to the first quarter for a 17-12 lead. Felix Zoller (CON) and Giorgio Galione (CON) were important in that phase, and Contern even stretched the margin to 21-12 early in the second quarter.
That was the crucial moment: the team coached by Eric Zenners flipped the game with a 25-3 second quarter, including 21 unanswered points after Contern had made it 22-16. Weber and Erol Ajdinovic (ETZ) drove that surge, with Laurent Hongyuan Zhou Ji (ETZ) adding key baskets as Etzella reached halftime up 37-24.
The third quarter settled the game. Etzella opened with a 10-0 run to 47-24, then pushed the gap to its highest level at 57-26. Weber was on a real roll in that stretch, and Etzella's main scorers kept the pressure on.
Weber led all players with 30 points, Ajdinovic added 15, Zhou Ji 10 and Dos Santos 8. For Contern, David Lopes Meysembourg (CON) scored 13, Zoller 12, while Galione and Pierre Levaldaur (CON) had 8 each.
Contern won the last quarter 17-11 and showed good persistence, with Lopes Meysembourg, Galione and Levaldaur scoring late. Etzella also absorbed two player technical fouls in the fourth period, but the earlier cushion remained decisive.
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