P01 won 72-62 over P02 in Walfer after a game that stayed competitive for three quarters before the home side created enough separation in the fourth.
The opening quarter was slow and defensive. Tom Schomer (P01) struck first from long range, P02 answered with five straight points, then P01 closed the period on a 7-1 run to lead 10-6. In the second quarter, Demarkus Stuckey (P01) became the main interior force and scored six P01 points in a row, while Maindron Mykolas (P01) added a personal 5-0 burst for 27-14, the first double-digit margin. P02 stayed alive through Fadal (P02), Woodmore (P02) and Roth (P02), cutting it back to 29-26 before Stuckey's late three made it 32-26 at halftime. A notable moment came earlier in the quarter when Roth was charged with an F foul.
P02 threatened again after the break. A Roth three brought it to 36-34, but that was the key swing point: P01 answered with an 11-2 run, powered mainly by Stuckey inside and Mykolas, to move clear again at 47-36.
The away side still had one more push. Back-to-back Woodmore threes helped P02 trim the score to 53-46 early in the fourth. Coach Rainer Kloss then got the decisive response from his group: Lazar Lukic, Desean Hampton and Mykolas led a 13-4 spell that stretched the lead to 66-50, and later 72-54, the biggest gap of the game. Coach Mbassa's team finished on an 8-0 run, but the margin was already too large.
Top scorers were Stuckey (P01) with 23 points and 10 made two-pointers, and Mykolas (P01) with 21 points and four made threes. For P02, Fadal scored 14, Woodmore 11, Roth 10, while Kreilein and Aichele added 8 each.
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