BBC East Side Pirates defeated Racing Luxembourg B 65-52 after controlling most of this phase-finale meeting. Gilles Poos's team imposed itself early with a 10-0 start and led 20-10 after the first quarter. The home side kept that advantage in the second period, with Philippe Meyers (Season PPG: 5.17) and Ben Pallmer (Season PPG: 8.25) giving BEP steady scoring, and the margin grew to 36-19 at halftime.
Racing reacted after the break. Meyers opened the third quarter with a three for 39-19, but Christian Frick's team answered with 8 straight points to reduce the gap to 12. BEP still absorbed that moment well, closed the quarter at 53-35 and then pushed the lead to its highest point, 62-35, early in the fourth.
The last quarter gave the game a different rhythm. Racing produced 17 unanswered points, mainly through Lucas Robert Kampe (Season PPG: 7.38), a 14-year-old from Germany, and Nicolas Breistroff (Season PPG: 11.00), to come back to 62-52. BEP stopped that run through Quinn Kremer Schram and Ben Pol Mike Szymczak, who combined for the last 3 points.
Meyers led BEP with 15 points, Pallmer added 14, and 13-year-old Yuqiang Wang from China scored 8. BEP spread the offense across 10 scorers. For RACB, Kampe finished with 18 points, Breistroff had 17 and Raphaël Massard 10. BEP had already won the first meeting 66-60 and, after this return game, moved up to 2nd place while RACB dropped to 3rd.
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