League leader AS Soleuvre B escaped in Mersch with a 63-62 win and completed the season sweep over Black Star Mersch after the earlier 81-42 result. This return game was very different, decided only in the final minute.
Coach Aleksandar Petrovic's BSM started better and went up 8-1. Maxime Toussaint (Season PPG: 6.64), a 12-year-old French player, set the early tone, and Mersch stayed in front 14-11 after the first quarter. BSM still led 20-15 in the second, but coach Michel Dias Gonavles saw his team change the rhythm. Prasan Prabhu Sankar (Season PPG: 8.31) went on a strong stretch, and Soleuvre closed the half with 8 straight points for a 31-24 lead.
SOLB pushed the margin to 33-24 early in the third, but Mersch answered well. Luca Donini (Season PPG: 9.23) scored 7 points in a row, and BSM turned 32-37 into 41-39. Soleuvre reacted again and entered the last quarter ahead 46-43.
The fourth quarter stayed tight. Soleuvre built its biggest lead at 57-49, but Mersch came back to 55-55, then 61-61. Ylan Madoki Bigas (Season PPG: 21.75) gave BSM a 62-61 edge from the line, but Amadou Diallo (Season PPG: 9.44) scored the last two points on free throws for the game winner.
Prabhu Sankar finished with a game-high 33 points, far above his season average and matching his season best. Moreno Tomasini (Season PPG: 13.57) added 16 before fouling out, and Diallo had 10. For BSM, Toussaint scored 18, Donini 16 before fouling out, Madoki Bigas 13, and Denis Notarnicola contributed 9 before his foul-out. Soleuvre stayed 1st; BSM, despite the loss, moved up one place to 4th.
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