Amicale Steesel overpowered Basket Esch B 83-34 in the Phase finale, repeating their dominance from Phase 1 (97-16). After a competitive opening stretch, the visitors steadily took control and broke the game open after halftime.
The first quarter stayed within reach for Esch, buoyed by Yanis Jacques Enzo Allou N'Da (LALB) and a three from Gabriel Stefan Kühne Meza (Season PPG: 8.88). Amicale edged it 17-13, despite an early unsportsmanlike foul (U2) on Esch's captain Sabahudin Dulic. The second quarter swung firmly to Amicale: a technical foul (T1) on Samuel Vidal Martins preceded a sequence where Maxime Kapgen (Season PPG: 12.42) and Harons Rafaels Faduls (Season PPG: 8.62) added key points for a 33-20 halftime lead.
The third quarter decided it. Amicale surged 29-10 in the period, featuring a 16-4 run from 28-46 to 30-62 built by Levi Lepage Post (13) and Aiden Riley Smith (13, CAN), with support from Phil Linckels (Season PPG: 9.71), Raphael Boreiko (Season PPG: 12.43), Erik Hruban (Season PPG: 3.42) and Jona Engel (Season PPG: 7.40). In the fourth, Lepage Post authored eight straight points for AMI, including back-to-back threes, before the visitors closed at +49, their largest lead.
Top scorers: Amicale Levi Lepage Post 22 (Season PPG: 12.91), Smith 11 (Season PPG: 11.50), Boreiko 11; Linckels 9; Engel 8; Kapgen 7. Esch Allou N'Da 12; Luca Di Nardo 7 (Season PPG: 7.45); Kühne Meza 5. No player fouled out.
With coach Danièle Stoffel-Adam rotating effectively, Amicale climb to 2nd place (3-1, +2 in ranking gain) and are on a two-game winning streak. Coach Damien Thill's Esch drop to 1-3 but move to 5th (+1), now on three consecutive losses.
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