Third-placed Racing Luxembourg B took control early enough at Heffingen and won 105-58 against 11th-placed US Heffingen C, confirming the gap already seen in the first meeting of the season.
HEFC stayed close in the opening quarter. Manuel Scholtus (Season PPG: 11.00) kept the home side alive with three first-period triples, and after several score corrections on the sheet the game was still only 13-18 after 10 minutes. The decisive break came around the quarter change: Racing closed the first quarter with the last basket and then opened the second on a 10-0 run, stretching the score from 13-16 to 13-28. Wander Nicolas Silvestre Marquez (Season PPG: 9.92) was central in that sequence.
Racing kept rolling in the second period. Yves Le Sayec (Season PPG: 11.69), the 31-year-old French scorer, and François Aulner (Season PPG: 5.67) pushed the margin to 41-16, and the visitors went into halftime well in front at 54-25. After the break, RACB started again with force, this time with an 11-0 burst to 65-25, with Xavier Engel (Season PPG: 17.06), Yann Fux (Season PPG: 5.36) and Matteo Seracini (Season PPG: 6.44) all contributing.
Scholtus finished with 27 points for HEFC, well supported by Daniel Wampach (Season PPG: 6.22) with 12 and Bob Banzer (Season PPG: 5.56) with 8. For Racing, Silvestre Marquez scored 19, Le Sayec 17, Engel 13, Aulner 11 and Fux 10 in a balanced attack. RACB's biggest lead reached 49 points at 105-56 before the final baskets. Racing has now won five in a row and gained one place to 3rd; HEFC remains 11th after a seventh straight defeat.
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