In Berbourg, BBC East Side Pirates handled T71 Dudelange C 83-37 in the M-U14 Division 5: Phase finale round-robin, shaping the game from the opening tip. The Pirates hit a 10-0 start (extended to 11-0) before an early timeout, and closed the first period 21-7 after Edgar Charles Matti Ney strung together three consecutive baskets. At halftime it was 40-17, with Philippe Meyers and captain Tim Konstantin Focht repeatedly finishing at the rim.
T71C's best stretch came in the third quarter (18-16), almost entirely through Levi Neil Ten Besch, who kept producing in the paint and finished with 21 points (Season PPG: 9.30). Still, the hosts never lost control. In the fourth, BEP authored a decisive 15-0 run from 62-35 to 77-35 and reached their largest lead at the buzzer (+46).
Meyers led BEP with 20 points (Season PPG: 2.89), including a third-quarter three, and Focht added 17 (Season PPG: 6.75). Ney contributed 12 (Season PPG: 2.88), as did Yuqiang Wang (13, CHN), while Max Merens chipped in 8. For T71C, behind Besch's 21, Tomas Fernandes Pedro (12, PRT) added 6; Alexandre Castro scored 3.
Discipline never swung the outcome; no player fouled out, though Wang and T71's Ian Hulten and Fernandes Pedro each collected four personals. Coach Gilles Poos's early rotations paid off, with bench scoring in the first quarter breaking the game open, while Paul Hulten's timeout at 6-0 couldn't stem the initial surge.
In the classification, the Pirates climb two places to 4th, while T71C sit 5th.
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