Third-placed Arantia Larochette B controlled the return game at Racing Luxembourg and won 66-45, completing a 2-0 season sweep after the earlier 68-52 result. Racing still moved up one place to 4th after the round, but this was a fifth straight defeat.
The visitors, coached by Joao Pedro Osorio Silva, set the tone early. After Racing's first point, ARAB produced a 6-0 burst for an 8-1 lead. Racing stayed in contact through Kotryna Pakstyte (Season PPG: 3.77) and Viktoriia Lukianenko (Season PPG: 9.18), cutting it to 9-11, but Maëly Horta Mascarenhas (Season PPG: 7.75) closed the first quarter at 15-9.
Racing, under Dimitrios Minas, remained within reach for part of the second period at 11-17 and 15-23. Still, ARAB kept finding points inside and from the line, with Clara Ribeiro Correia and Chiara Faber (Season PPG: 3.50) helping stretch the margin to 30-19 at halftime.
The decisive moment came in the third quarter. After Racing got to 23-34, Horta Mascarenhas, 14, from France, hit ARAB's only three-pointer, and the visitors later went on an 8-0 run from 42-27 to 50-27. That pushed the game firmly away from Racing.
ARAB's highest lead reached 66-33 in the fourth, with Yara Mores (Season PPG: 9.70) and Horta Mascarenhas continuing the pressure. Racing finished with 12 unanswered points to reduce the final gap.
Horta Mascarenhas led all scorers with 19, Mores added 16, Faber had 11 and Sarah Ansay (Season PPG: 6.61) scored 8. For Racing, captain Emma Peccati, 15, from Latvia, scored 10, Pakstyte also had 10, and Margaux Brun, 16, from France, added 7. ARAB also had a clear edge at the foul line, 12 made free throws against 3, while Racing did not make a three-pointer.
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