League leaders Musel Pikes B stayed perfect in M-U14 Division 7 Phase 1 with a 93-59 away win over Les Sangliers Wooltz. MUSB are now 3-0 and remain 1st, while SAN, despite the defeat, climb one place to 2nd at 2-1.
The game was competitive early. SAN, carried by 12-year-old captain Aaron Raphaël Janvier Ngatcha (SAN), were still in front 21-20 late in the 1st quarter after he scored 16 points in that period, but Musel closed the quarter on a 4-0 run for a 24-21 lead. Coach De Marchi's side then created the first clear separation in Q2: a 6-0 start to the quarter pushed the margin to 30-21, and later another strong stretch took the score from 30-38 to 30-45. Jonah Kieffer (Season PPG: 23.40) and Phil De Marchi (MUSB) drove that sequence, and the visitors reached halftime ahead 49-32.
SAN responded well in the 3rd quarter. Ngatcha, Nolan Philippe (SAN) and Milan Sagramola (SAN) helped reduce the deficit to 48-57. That was the key moment of the game, because Musel answered immediately with 16 unanswered points spanning the end of the 3rd and the start of the 4th quarter, opening a 73-48 advantage. From there, the leaders controlled the last period and finished with their biggest lead at 34.
Kieffer led all scorers with 35 points, De Marchi added 18, and Oscar Patrick Reuter (MUSB) scored 10. For SAN, Ngatcha finished with 27 points, Philippe had 13 and Sagramola 12. Ngatcha's foul trouble was important: two fouls in Q1, two more in Q2, then his 5th foul in Q3. Musel also extended their winning run to three games.
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