Black Frogs Schieren C strengthened their lead at the top of M-Division 4 with a 76-55 road win over T71 Dudelange C, and they also completed the season sweep after the earlier 67-64 success. FROC stayed 1st, while T71C moved up to 2nd despite a third straight defeat. Schieren is now on a five-game winning run.
T71C started 4-2, but the game quickly swung. Schieren replied with a 10-0 run for 14-4 and closed the first quarter ahead 22-12. The decisive passage came in the second period. After Dudelange cut it to 14-22, FROC produced a 16-0 burst and built total control. Bob Hirt stretched the floor, Manuel Delgado Ferreira scored 6 straight on consecutive threes, and the visitors went into halftime with a massive 52-18 lead. The gap reached 35 points in the third quarter at 64-29.
Hirt (Season PPG: 16.00) made the biggest impact with 28 points, including 5 triples. Delgado Ferreira (Season PPG: 10.57), the 41-year-old Portuguese scorer, added 15. Jaylson Ribeiro-Goncalves finished with 9, Patrick Ribeiro Goncalves had 8, and Noah Michels (Season PPG: 8.10) added 7.
For T71C, Nevzat Dzudzevic (Season PPG: 16.60) scored 15, Charles-André Lys (Season PPG: 6.33) had 9, and Ruben Melanda (Season PPG: 4.33) also scored 9. Melanda hit back-to-back threes in the fourth quarter during Dudelange's late reaction, and Damian Bucin (T71C) added 3 points in his first game of the competition. T71C also picked up technical fouls on Luc Reuter and Dzudzevic during Schieren's dominant middle stages.
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