Third-placed T71 Dudelange B stayed in that position at 5-3 after a 96-60 home win over fifth-placed Telstar Hesperange, and the team is now on a three-game winning streak. It was also T71B's third win in three meetings with Telstar this season.
The first half still had competitive phases. T71B moved from 10-7 to 20-7 with a 10-0 run, including 6 straight points from Fiona Loes, and finished the opening quarter ahead 26-17. An early factor was Telstar captain Ketsiah Joy Dor (Season PPG: 28.25) picking up three fouls in the first quarter. Telstar then answered well in the second period: Inès Sarah Kambire (Season PPG: 24.27) scored 9 points in a row to bring her side from 17-26 back to 26-26. That tie did not last long, as coach Lynn Biever's group closed the half on an 11-2 stretch for a 45-34 lead.
The game broke open in the third quarter. T71B started the half with a 7-0 run and later pushed the margin to 64-39, while limiting Telstar to only 9 points in the period. From there, the lead kept growing and reached a highest margin of 38 points at 96-58.
Katarina Barbic, a 15-year-old Croatian, led T71B with 28 points, matching her season high, and scored in every quarter. Veena Burgund added 16, Shari Von Arx (Season PPG: 10.64) had 13, and Loes finished with 11. For Telstar, Kambire produced 31, also a season high. Victoire Joséphine Kimoni, the 13-year-old Belgian guard, added 16, with 11 of them in the fourth quarter, and Rose Rosena Sanon Louarn scored 7.
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