Gréngewald Hueschtert climbed to 1st place with a 70-54 home win over 5th-ranked Telstar Hesperange, a useful reaction after their previous defeat. For Telstar, it was a fourth straight loss.
The game turned quickly after Telstar's 2-0 start. Gréngewald answered with 13 unanswered points to move to 13-2 and controlled the first half well behind a solid 19-14 opening quarter and a 16-10 second period. At the break, Nicolas Parrish's team was up 35-24 and looked in command.
The key swing came in the third quarter. Telstar played its best basketball there, winning the period 20-17. Tao Raphaël Ozier-Lafontaine (Season PPG: 10.00) and Andrei Ionescu (Season PPG: 6.58) attacked inside, while Stanislaw Jan Kwasniewski (Season PPG: 11.56), the 14-year-old Polish scorer, had already done early damage with 14 points overall. Telstar cut the gap to 45-44, turning the game into a real contest. During that stretch, Arnas Pakasius (Season PPG: 10.77) picked up three fouls in the same quarter, and Martin Fritsch (Season PPG: 7.00) had already accumulated fouls in bunches for Telstar.
Gréngewald had the stronger finish. Jake Jozef Rajniak (Season PPG: 16.25) produced 27 points, exactly matching his season high, and Paul Dortschy Boixados (Season PPG: 16.00), a 14-year-old German player, added 22. Early in the fourth, the home side went on a 10-0 run from 54-46 to 64-46, which settled the game. Rajniak scored 12 points after halftime, Dortschy kept the pressure on around the basket, and Rasmus Dollaris Praestegaard (Season PPG: 10.85) contributed 6 points, including a timely third-quarter three. Gréngewald's highest lead reached 18 points late in the game.
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Gréngewald Hueschtert