Amicale Steesel controlled the tempo and pulled away late to win 65-46 at grimler/terrain2 against T71 Dudelange B. The visitors set the tone early (6-10 after Q1) and kept a slim cushion to halftime (22-26). After the break, Amicale opened the third with a 0-6 burst to 22-32, prompting a T71 timeout; the hosts battled back to 31-38 after three. The decisive blow came at the start of the fourth: a 14-2 Amicale run to 33-52, sparked by Maxime Kapgen (AMI) and back-to-back buckets from Aiden Riley Smith (13, CAN), with Levi Lepage Post (AMI) adding a three. The highest lead reached 19, the final margin.
Levi Lepage Post (AMI) led all scorers with 20 points, hitting multiple key shots in the last period, while Kapgen (AMI) and Smith (AMI) added 12 each; Noe Olmedo (AMI) chipped in 6 and Phil Linckels (AMI) 5. For T71, Lorenzo Magoum (T71B) paced the hosts with 11, including a late triple, supported by Berin Hajdarpasic (T71B) with 10, Jim Resl (T71B) 8 and both Sami Dzinic (T71B) and Adriano Coelho Gomes (T71B) with 6 apiece.
Game sequences mattered: Jim Resl knocked down consecutive free throws in both the third and fourth to steady T71, but Lepage Post answered with a three and a string of drives. Coelho Gomes navigated foul trouble (4 fouls), while Harons Rafaels Faduls (AMI) picked up two quick personals in the third; Lepage Post drew two quick fouls in the fourth yet kept producing.
Coach Thorsten Freiheit's group responded well after their previous loss, improving to 4-1 and climbing to 2nd (+1) in the table. Coach Carlo Muller's T71B drop to 2-3, 4th place, now on a two-game skid.
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