Basket Esch began well and led 19-12 after the first quarter, with Emma Muratovic (Season PPG: 14.07) and Diana Costa de Sousa (Season PPG: 14.60) setting the tone. Jana Lucius (Season PPG: 7.07) added an early three-pointer, and Pierrette Birchen's team looked in control.
The game changed sharply in the second quarter. BBC East Side Pirates opened the period with an 8-0 run to move from 12-19 to 20-19, then kept the pressure high. Aurélie Biver (Season PPG: 5.70), Emma Kasel (Season PPG: 5.87), Louisa Schmit (Season PPG: 21.21) and Emmi Françoise Schroeder (Season PPG: 4.19) all scored in that stretch, and the visitors turned a 7-point deficit into a 41-31 halftime lead.
The decisive moment came in the third quarter. Esch reduced the margin to 35-43, but Coach Nina Schmit's side answered with a major 21-1 run, moving from 45-35 to 66-36. Kasel, Schmit, Nelly Ney (Season PPG: 9.62) and Biver drove that sequence, with East Side scoring inside and also adding points from the line. From there, the visitors controlled the rest of the game and reached a highest lead of 43 points at 88-45 before Esch closed on a 7-0 run.
East Side had a very balanced attack: Ney, Schmit and Kasel all scored 17 points, while Biver added 11. For Esch, Muratovic finished with 21 and Costa de Sousa, 13, Portuguese, had 19; together they produced 40 of the team's 52 points. Foul trouble also weighed on the home side: Yara Tavares Dias fouled out, while Giulya Fiore and Lucius both finished on four fouls. In the standings, BEP stay 4th at 3-3, while LAL remain 6th and winless after six games in this phase. East Side also completed a 2-0 season sweep against Basket Esch.
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