Telstar Hesperange won 70-59 in Steinsel and moved up to 2nd place, while Amicale Steesel B dropped to 6th and took a third straight defeat.
Coach Oliver Barth's side had the better first quarter. After trailing 6-2, AMIB answered with a 12-2 spell to lead 14-8. Captain Lex Diederich (12, AMIB) was central in that stretch and scored 6 points in a row late in the period.
The game changed in the second quarter. AMIB briefly went 16-10 up, but Telstar reacted strongly. Coach Uchenna Okpani's team put together 12 of the next 13 points, with Naël Kourkzi (11, TEL) and Martin Giordana Pi (11, TEL) driving the comeback. TEL won the quarter 16-5 and led 24-19 at halftime.
AMIB came out well after the break and cut the gap to 28-26, but that was the key moment. Telstar then went on a 20-6 run to close the third quarter, stretching the margin to 48-32. Liam Murschel (13, TEL) and Giordana Pi were especially important in that sequence, and Telstar reached its highest lead at 16 points.
AMIB scored 27 points in the last quarter and kept working through Diederich, Luca Olmedo (11, AMIB) and Nicolas Goffin Urquizo (11, AMIB), but Telstar stayed in control.
Kourkzi led all scorers with 23 points, Murschel added 20, and Giordana Pi had 19, including the game's only two 3-pointers. For AMIB, Diederich finished with 17 points, Olmedo 13 and Goffin Urquizo 9. Telstar's balance inside the arc was decisive, with 30 made 2-pointers against 24 for AMIB.
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