Third-placed BC Mess B won 71-61 on the floor of second-placed US Heffingen and completed a season sweep after their earlier 83-68 success. The visitors also moved up one place in the table and now have three straight wins.
Mess B controlled the opening quarter well. They started 6-0, had good early balance around Roan Musquar (Season PPG: 10.40) and Eli Nosbusch (Season PPG: 17.14), and built an 11-point edge at 24-13 after ten minutes.
Heffingen reacted strongly in the second period. From 13-26, they produced an 8-0 run, with Jim Seyler (Season PPG: 6.38) scoring 6 points in a row. Later, when they trailed 23-34, coach Andrej Gruskovnjak's team closed the half with an 11-2 surge to come back to 34-36. Seyler and Mett Dostert (Season PPG: 9.53) were important in that stretch.
The decisive moment came in the third quarter. Heffingen even moved in front 44-43 after Tim Yeong-Jun Kass (Season PPG: 3.83) scored inside, but Mess B answered immediately with an 18-0 run to 61-44. Nosbusch scored 6 straight points in that sequence and the visitors turned the game back in their favor.
Heffingen pushed again in the fourth, cutting 46-65 to 56-67 with 6 consecutive points from Michael Hostert (Season PPG: 3.64), but they never got closer than 10 after that. Deivys Almeida Monteiro, Heffingen's 15-year-old captain (Season PPG: 9.00), finished with 10 points despite four fouls.
Musquar led all scorers with 24 points, Nosbusch added 22, and 14-year-old Louis Clemes gave Mess B 14. For Heffingen, Diego Vaz Pereira (Season PPG: 11.86) and Seyler scored 12 each.
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