Ninth-ranked Etzella Ettelbruck B split the season series with sixth-ranked Musel Pikes B by taking this return game 93-76, after MUSB had won the first meeting 88-87.
The game stayed balanced for a long time. It was 18-18 after the first quarter, and MUSB went into halftime with a narrow 41-40 lead. Early in the third period the visitors stretched it to 47-41, with Chris Dentzer (Season PPG: 15.17) and Yann Herrmann (Season PPG: 9.63) keeping the pressure on. ETZB answered through the 17-year-old, 1.85m Lenny Lopes Morais (Season PPG: 10.18), and the score was still tied 61-61 after 30 minutes.
The decisive moment came at the start of the fourth. Coach Gavin Love's team opened with eight unanswered points for 69-61, then turned that into a 25-4 run to 86-65. That was the crucial stretch and also produced the highest lead of the night at 21 points.
Lopes Morais led ETZB with 26 points, well above his season average. Sam Schaaf (Season PPG: 17.42) added 19, Charel Wilmes (Season PPG: 6.29) hit five three-pointers for 17, Oreoluwa Oke (Season PPG: 6.65) scored 14, and Lou Clees (Season PPG: 15.10) finished with 13. ETZB got this done with only seven scorers.
For MUSB, Dentzer finished with 24, Herrmann had 17 and Guy Schmit (Season PPG: 14.08) added 16. MUSB still had a real chance after three quarters, but Dentzer then picked up three personal fouls in the fourth while ETZB's run changed the game completely.
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