Rebound Préizerdaul won 77-52 away to Nitia Bettembourg and completed a second victory over the same opponent in this phase after the earlier 73-58 result. The win lifts PRE to 3rd place (+1), while NIT stays 5th.
Nitia opened well. With Gabriel Berteloot (Season PPG: 7.70) and 14-year-old Portuguese Dinis Jorge Cruz Rica (Season PPG: 11.31), the home side moved in front 10-4. Coach Jérôme Lefevre's team then changed the rhythm of the game with a 17-6 finish to the first quarter. Elmir Pjevic (Season PPG: 27.33) scored 7 points in a row in that stretch, and 15-year-old Italian Evan Simo Djoko (Season PPG: 7.50) was already very productive inside.
Coach Qassim Sahraoui's side reacted in the second quarter and briefly went back ahead at 28-27. That was an important moment, but PRE answered with a 9-0 run to close the half at 36-28. Jamien Tom Simoes Marbes (Season PPG: 4.59) added a three, and Lenn Lefevre (Season PPG: 4.69) kept the visitors steady.
Préizerdaul took firm control after the break. Pjevic and Simo Djoko kept scoring near the basket, and the gap reached 59-42 after three quarters. The decisive sequence came from the end of the third into the start of the fourth, when PRE scored 14 unanswered points to turn 57-42 into 71-42, their highest lead.
Pjevic finished with 24 points, Simo Djoko with 22, while Lefevre and Simoes Marbes added 9 each. For Nitia, Berteloot scored 16, Cruz Rica 14 and Mathis Brochier (Season PPG: 9.79) 8. Bettembourg's scoring came entirely from two-point baskets.
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