Second-placed BBC East Side Pirates controlled this Phase finale return game from the opening minutes and kept fourth-placed Mambra Mamer B under 20 points, 63-19. Under coach Gilles Poos, BEP opened with a 7-0 start through Tim Konstantin Focht and Demir Eco before Mamer got on the board from the line. The first quarter ended 14-5, and the decisive stretch came in the second period: the Pirates turned 14-5 into 26-5 with 12 unanswered points. Focht scored 8 BEP points in a row during that run, and halftime was already 34-7.
Mamer, coached by Paul Jacque, had its best offensive spell after the break. Ayoub Saoudaoui hit the only three-pointer for his side, Virdee kept creating pressure, and the third quarter was more balanced at 13-9. Even so, BEP never allowed any real shift in momentum. Early in the fourth, the Pirates produced another 12-0 burst, from 47-18 to 59-18, and the gap finally reached 44 points.
BEP had strong balance in scoring. Ben Pallmer (Season PPG: 8.50) led with 12 points, Eco (Season PPG: 6.50) added 11, Focht (Season PPG: 7.64) had 10, Felix Saeul (Season PPG: 3.43) finished with 9, and 13-year-old Yuqiang Wang from China added 8. The Pirates scored 29 two-point baskets and had seven players with at least 6 points.
For Mamer B, Manraj Singh Virdee (Season PPG: 3.57) was the main option with 8 points, more than 40% of the team total. Saoudaoui (Season PPG: 7.62) added 4, while Til Zorz and Mihai-Alexandru Olariu scored 2 each. BEP completed a clear double over Mamer B after the earlier 89-27 win, stayed 2nd in the classification, and Mamer B remained 4th while extending its losing run to four games.
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