AB Contern B won 80-62 at Arantia Larochette B in a game that changed shape several times before the visitors took control late. With this result, CONB moved up to 1st place in M-U14 Division 6: Phase finale (7-1, ranking gain +1), while ARAB stayed 4th at 2-6 and suffered a fourth straight defeat.
Larochette started better. Pit Hoffmann's team led 20-11 after the first quarter and reached an early highest lead of 11 points at 20-9. Mingyu Li (8) gave ARAB strong scoring from the start, and the home side even stretched the margin to 28-11 in the second period after Li scored 8 points in a row.
That was the first major turning point. Jeffrey Nicolas Jamal Schumacher's side answered with a 16-0 run to close the first half, cutting the gap from 28-11 to 28-27. David Lopes Meysembourg (Season PPG: 12.96) and Maxime Daems (Season PPG: 7.00) were central in that reaction.
The third quarter stayed tight. ARAB went back up 32-27, then later produced a 12-0 run to lead 46-38, with Li scoring 10 straight points during that stretch. Contern again had the better finish: they closed the quarter on a 9-0 run to edge ahead 47-46.
Early in the fourth, ARAB briefly reclaimed momentum and led 52-47, but CONB decided the game there. The visitors replied with a 13-0 run to 60-52, and after Larochette reduced it to 56-60, Contern added another decisive 14-0 burst for 74-56. They won the last quarter 33-16 and finished with their biggest lead, 18 points.
Lopes Meysembourg led all scorers with 38 points, including 5 three-pointers. Daems added 17. For ARAB, Li scored 29 in his first game of this competition, while Tunn Van Meel (Season PPG: 7.06) had 12 and Ruben Manuel Silva (Season PPG: 8.36) added 10.
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