BC Mess B turned around the season series against US Heffingen C with a clear 70-42 home win, after having lost the first meeting 43-70. The result also lifted MESB two places to 8th in M-Division 1, while HEFC remained 11th.
Game evolution mattered. Heffingen started better and led 13-10 after the first quarter, then still held a 22-18 advantage in the second. From there, coach Fernand Musquar's team changed the rhythm. Mess closed the half with a 14-2 spell to move in front 32-24, with Damien Michels (Season PPG: 2.32) and Alexandre Caurla (Season PPG: 16.57) giving the home side shot-making on the perimeter.
The third quarter decided the game. Caurla and Michels stretched the lead, and Fabbri Bruno Zinédine Gauthier (25, 1.86m, FRA) gave MESB a strong punch with 10 points, including two important third-quarter threes. Mess won that period 20-8 and reached 52-32. In the fourth, the gap grew to a game-high 34 points at 70-36 before Heffingen scored the last six.
Caurla led MESB with 15 points, Kemevuako added 13, Michels 11 and Gauthier 10. The 21-year-old 1.93m Giovanni Kemevuako (Season PPG: 9.75) was efficient around the basket and from the line. For HEFC, Bob Banzer (Season PPG: 2.34) was clearly the main threat with 16 points, while Rafael Hernan Agreda Barrios (Season PPG: 3.60) and Claude Ludwig (Season PPG: 1.00) had 8 each.
A major statistical difference came from long range: Mess produced 10 made three-pointers, spread over five players, while Heffingen did not make a three at all. MESB also snapped a two-game losing streak; HEFC's losing run reached six games.
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