BC Mess B won 73-86 in tramsschap/central after a late surge broke open a game that was tied 64-64 after three quarters. The visitors raced to 24-33 after 10 minutes Alexandre Caurla scored six straight in midfirst quarter and pushed their highest lead to +15 early in Q2 (24-39). Racing Luxembourg B then answered with a 20-5 run to 44-44, and trailed 44-49 at halftime. The hosts kept momentum through the third to level again at 64-64.
The fourth belonged to Mess: a sequence with Philippe Charles Di Cato, Caurla and Gilles Weimerskirch produced a 12-2 spell to 66-76, and Mess closed it 9-22 in the period. A key incident arrived when Giorgio Riboldi (Season PPG: 11.63) was disqualified in Q4 after a second unsportsmanlike; he still led RACB with 17.
Caurla (Season PPG: 17.56) dominated with 32 points, repeatedly hurting RACB from deep and at the line. Weimerskirch (Season PPG: 5.64) added 17, while François Villain (Season PPG: 9.30) chipped 16. Jeff Bofferding (39) contributed timely baskets. For RACB, Wander Nicolas Silvestre Marquez (Season PPG: 7.86) had 15, Nicolas Muller (Season PPG: 7.20) 13 and Sofiane Amadou Bah (Season PPG: 10.82) 11. Bah picked up two quick fouls in Q3 that blunted his rhythm; François Aulner committed multiple infractions early.
Coaches Gilles Weimerskirch and Pit Schneider traded timeouts as the game swung RACB's secondquarter run and Mess's fourthquarter response were the turning points. In the standings, Racing are 2nd (+1) at 7-3, while Mess sit 11th at 3-7, snapping a rough spell with this away win after several losses in recent weeks.
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