Sparta Bertrange C won 67-56 away to Gréngewald Hueschtert in a phase-finale game between the teams ranked 2nd and 3rd. The result leaves both sides at 4-2, with Gréngewald still 2nd and Sparta 3rd, and it levels the season series at 1-1 after Gréngewald had taken the first meeting 77-55.
The game changed hands several times. Gréngewald started better and moved 10-4 ahead, but Sparta answered with an 8-0 run, driven by Giovanni Vena (Season PPG: 10.68) and Raphaël Grieco (Season PPG: 12.25). Gréngewald reacted well and closed the first quarter back in front, 14-12.
The second quarter was where Sparta began to dictate the rhythm. Vena stayed efficient near the basket, and Sparta finished the half with 6 straight points to turn a 25-24 deficit into a 30-25 lead. Coach Tine Nagy's team then resisted Gréngewald's push after the break. Jake Jozef Rajniak (Season PPG: 16.69) and Arnas Pakasius (Season PPG: 10.93) brought GRE back to 37-37, and Pakasius even gave the home side a 38-37 edge, despite carrying four fouls from the third quarter.
That moment did not last long. Sparta regained control before the last period at 47-42. Early in the fourth, Gréngewald cut it to 47-44, but Sparta produced the crucial sequence: a 10-2 stretch, with Daniel Maestro Varillas (11, ESP) and Teng Yi Zahn (Season PPG: 3.86) active in that phase, pushed the margin to 57-46. The visitors later reached their biggest lead at 61-48.
Rajniak kept GRE alive with back-to-back threes for 61-54 and scored 8 of his team's last 10 points, but Sparta answered with 6 in a row through Thor Wintersdorff (Season PPG: 9.53) and Vena to secure the road win.
Top scorers were Rajniak with 22 for GRE, backed by Henry Ian Hind (Season PPG: 3.62), a 12-year-old Irish player, and Pakasius with 13 each. For Sparta, Vena had 20, Grieco 16 and Maestro Varillas added 13, including Sparta's only three-pointer.
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