AB Contern B, now 2nd after a one-place gain, controlled this return game of the M-U14 Division 6 Phase finale and beat 6th-placed BC Mess B 73-40. It also completed a season sweep over Mess after the earlier 56-47 away win. Contern reacted well after its previous defeat, while Mess is now on a four-game losing run.
Jeffrey Schumacher's team set the tone early. Contern moved in front 7-0, allowed Mess back to 10-5, then closed the first quarter with a 9-0 burst for 19-5. The key stretch came across the quarter break: Tim Limpach (Season PPG: 4.00) and Elias Harsch (Season PPG: 6.64) extended the run to 15 straight points, making it 25-5. From there, Mess never got the gap back under 16 points before halftime, with Contern leading 43-21.
BC Mess B had its best scoring phase in the middle quarters, mainly through 12-year-old Rayan Macedo Mendes (Season PPG: 9.75), who finished with 20 points, and Lou Kinn Varela (Season PPG: 4.93), who added 12. They helped Mess stay competitive in parts of the second and third periods, but Contern kept answering.
The decisive individual sequence came after the break from 12-year-old David Lopes Meysembourg (Season PPG: 11.92). He scored 11 points in the third quarter and 9 more in the fourth, finishing with a game-high 26. Harsch added 13, while captain Naël Hussain Teixeira (Season PPG: 8.46) scored 15. Contern's last push was another clear run: from 58-34, it opened the fourth quarter with 9 unanswered points to reach 67-34, and the highest lead grew to 33 by the end.
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