The Musel Pikes announced that Brandon Gary will stay as american player for the upcoming season. Furthermore, Trenton Wurtz will return after one season in Mondorf and replace Perre as second foreigner of the team, that was eliminated in this year’s semifinals.

This weekend, BBC Telstar Hesperange had organized the first ever Youth All-Star Days. See below for the results and MVPs of the event.

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Thomas Grün and his team ALBA Urspring were qualified for the NBBL (U19) Top 4 in Hagen this weekend. However, they lost in the semi-finals against TSV Tröster Breitengüssbach which is the Farm Team of Brose Baskets Bamberg. Urspring dominated the game during three quarters and was up 17 points but lost the control and got beaten finally 68-64 by the future champion from Franconia.

Thomas Grün could not play in the Top 4 because of an ankle injury and will have to sit out two more weeks. Grün finished the season with 7.8ppg (53.2% 2FGs – 9.5% 3FGs), 1.9rpg, 2.4apg, 1.3spg and 2.1topg against competition that was two years older than him. He should be ready to play for the Luxembourg Youth National Team this summer.

Amicale Steinsel aquired 2 new/old players for their womens squad next season. Jill Bausch will return after playing for Walferdane last season (10.6 ppg) and Mary Van Dyck will make a comeback after a 1 year break.
Officials from Steinsel also announced that their 2 foreigners, Meghan Gardler (28.05 ppg) and Milica Beljanski (21.14 ppg) have recieved a contract offer for next season.

In front of over 1000 spectators, Sparta has won the first game of the finals with 100:84 and now leads the „best-of-three“ with 1:0. Sparta started the game strong and never trailed. T71 will have two home-games now. They try to even up the series next friday in Dudelange.