BBC Käldall took control early and never let go, beating BBC East Side Pirates 121-57 in Rumelange. The home side improved to 3-3 and climbed three places to 3rd in M-Nationale 3, while BEP stayed 8th at 0-6 and extended its losing streak to six games.
Didier Frédéric Chomel's team opened with a 10-0 run before the Pirates settled. BEP cut into the gap enough to stay within reach at 27-18 after the first quarter, but the game broke open in the second. Käldall won that period 37-8 and turned 30-20 into 53-20 with 23 unanswered points, a decisive stretch built on pace and repeated finishing inside and from long range. At halftime it was already 64-26. The lead never dropped again and reached 64 points at the end.
Käldall had two co-leaders on 29 points: captain Ralph Anthony Lana (Season PPG: 25.17) and the 26-year-old Frenchman Florian Briwa (KAY). Lana was especially sharp in the first quarter with 15 points, while Briwa exploded for 21 in the second. Sofiane Mohamed Belal (Season PPG: 10.00) and Sofiane El Bazini (KAY) added 20 each, and Darys Alsym Kahoul Betouche (Season PPG: 14.80) finished with 7 despite picking up two fouls in the opening quarter. The local core also got a three-pointer from 31-year-old guard Dorian Da Cruz, listed at 1.75m.
For BEP, Finn Diederich (BEP), Patrick Weis (Season PPG: 12.40), Claude Schroeder (BEP) and Yannis Pividor (BEP) all reached double figures with 11, 10, 11 and 10 respectively. Gregory Schmit (BEP) added 9, but Thomas Diederich Ep. Kinnen's side could not recover from the second-quarter collapse.
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