T71 Dudelange B beat Résidence Walferdange B 81-63 and moved up to 3rd place in M-Division 2, while RESB stayed 10th and slipped to a fourth straight defeat. It was also a clear answer to the first meeting, which RESB had won 69-68.
The game was balanced at the start. RESB opened 4-0 and later 7-2, with Gonzalez Vargas, Purice and Filip Dukic setting the tone, but T71B stayed level behind Nils Schroeder. The first quarter ended 17-17.
The first important swing came in the second period. RESB reached 22-17 through Emanuele Santi and Dukic, then coach Serge Logelin's team answered with a 17-4 run to turn the game around at 34-26. Costa Farinha, Pol Becker and Leo Glod were decisive in that sequence, and T71B led 36-30 at halftime.
T71B then produced its strongest stretch just after the break. A 13-0 run pushed the score from 36-30 to 49-30, with Glod scoring 5 points in a row during that phase. RESB reacted well, though: Dukic and Santi led an 18-6 response, cutting the gap to 55-48 by the end of the third and 55-50 early in the fourth.
That was the last real opening for the visitors. From 55-50, T71B answered with a 12-2 burst to 67-52. Becker was central in that decisive passage and scored 12 of his 22 points in the last quarter. T71B's lead later reached 20.
Becker finished with 22 points (Season PPG: 17.00), Schroeder added 18 (Season PPG: 18.60), and 18-year-old 1.92m forward Lenn Dondelinger scored 17 (Season PPG: 14.91). For RESB, the 35-year-old Montenegrin Filip Dukic carried the offense with 27 points (Season PPG: 21.42), while Santi added 19 (Season PPG: 14.00). Together they supplied 46 of RESB's 63 points.
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T71 Dudelange B 
Résidence Walferdange B 
