Racing Luxembourg C took a close 75-72 win over leaders AB Contern B, completing a season sweep after the 67-60 away success in the first meeting. In the table, Contern stay 1st, while Racing climb one place to 3rd and extend their run to four straight wins. Contern's nine-game winning streak stops here.
The game turned sharply. Racing opened well and led 15-7, but Contern finished the first quarter on an 8-0 run for 27-24. The visitors then controlled the second period with real authority: Ben Goergen (Season PPG: 12.95), Yann Besch (Season PPG: 16.47) and René Wolzfeld (Season PPG: 11.91) pushed the margin to 53-34, a 19-point high, before halftime at 53-39. Contern were still in command late in the third at 67-53.
Racing changed the rhythm after the break under coach Tom Muller. Alexis Gumy (Season PPG: 9.55) and Guido Mori (Season PPG: 8.00), the 47-year-old captain, kept the comeback alive, and Miguel Llevenes Martinez (Season PPG: 12.80) produced an important burst after Patrick Walravens' unsportsmanlike foul in the third. The decisive sequence came at the start of the fourth: Racing scored 9 points in a row to erase a 58-67 deficit and tie at 67-67.
Contern briefly went back ahead 71-67, helped by a technical foul on Lan Horvat Kovac (27, SVN), but Racing answered immediately. Giorgio Riboldi (Season PPG: 11.94) scored inside, Horvat Kovac hit a major three for 72-71, and Drini Manjani (Season PPG: 12.94) added the next basket before fouling out late. Llevenes' final free throw set the score at 75-72.
Top scorers were Goergen with 18, Besch 17 and Walravens 14 for Contern; Racing had Riboldi and Gumy on 13 each, Mori 12 and Llevenes 10.
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