Gréngewald Hueschtert B won a close M-Division 1 game against BC Mess B, 71-62, and completed a 2-0 season sweep after the 58-55 road win in October. In the table, GREB moved up one place to 7th at 7-10, while MESB stayed 9th at 6-11.
The game turned sharply after halftime. Mess controlled the first half and led 21-19 after one quarter, then 38-33 at the break, with Alexandre Caurla (Season PPG: 17.07) setting the tone. He scored 10 points in the first half and pushed the visitors to their biggest lead, 38-31.
GREB coach Ricky Easterling got a strong response in the third quarter. Hueschtert B won that period 21-4 and flipped the game with a decisive 21-4 surge from 33-38 to 54-42. That was the key stretch. Axel Ulrich Olafsson (24, GREB) was central in that swing and finished with 20 points. Luca Pividor (Season PPG: 15.07) added 18, including 9 points in the third, while Mika Demuth (Season PPG: 13.14) scored 9 and helped keep the pressure on. GREB later built its biggest lead at 62-46 early in the fourth.
Mess did not collapse and won the last quarter 20-17, but the gap from the third period was too large. Caurla was the game's top scorer with 24 points and carried much of the comeback attempt, including 9 fourth-quarter points. He had support from Gilles Weimerskirch (Season PPG: 5.28) with 11 and François Villain (Season PPG: 8.24) with 10. For GREB, 19-year-old center Robyn Schumacher, 1.99m, gave useful interior scoring with 8 points.
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Gréngewald Hueschtert B