EY Luxembourg won 63-50 in Bascharage after taking control with a decisive third quarter. The game was still balanced for a long time: EYL led 15-9 after the opening period, but Käerjeng Hoppers answered well with a 22-17 second quarter and stayed right in the game at 31-34 by halftime.
The early tone came from Noa Duriez (EYL), who scored his team's first 13 points in a row. That gave EY Luxembourg its first cushion, but KHP reacted through Gary Pleimling (KHP) and Philippe Arens (KHP). Pleimling was efficient from several spots, and KHP even moved ahead 27-24 in the second quarter before EYL closed the half slightly better.
The turning point came after the break. With the score at 34-36, EY Luxembourg produced a 9-0 run to go to 34-45, and that stretch changed the game. EYL won the third quarter 20-6, with Duriez again at the center of the scoring, while Nouradine Babakar Diaye Ameth (EYL) and Andrea Pinilla Lozano (EYL) also added important baskets. The visitors' highest lead reached 15 points at 52-37 late in the third.
KHP made one more push at the start of the fourth, cutting the gap to 43-52, but EYL answered through Marco Villa (EYL), Fares Kassis (EYL) and Pablo José Cabero Lopez (EYL) to keep control.
Duriez led all scorers with 27 points. For KHP, Pleimling scored 21 and Arens added 15; together they produced 36 of the team's 50 points. Villa supported the EY Luxembourg win with 8 points, and Diaye Ameth added 6.
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