Racing Luxembourg C controlled proceedings in Mondercange, beating BC Mess B 94-66 and climbing to 3rd place in M-Division 1 (+1). The visitors have now won eight of their last nine, while Mess sit 11th and have dropped four of their last five.
The opening stretch was balanced (11-11) before Racing closed the first quarter on a 16-3 burst to lead 27-14. Giovanni Kemevuako (21, 1.93m) opened Mess' account with four consecutive free throws, but Racing answered through Drini Manjani and Miguel Llevenes Martinez. Pierre Philippe André Petit then added back-to-back layups late in the period.
The game broke open in the second quarter: Racing buried six triples in the period alone. Harri Tapani Hämäläinen (47, FIN) caught fire with four threes in that span, supported by long-range makes from Mathieu Delaplace and Edoardo Cappelli. Halftime came at 54-30 for the visitors.
Mess steadied in the third behind Alexandre Caurlà (23 points; Season PPG: 18.1) and José Junior Andrade Monteiro (23, 1.86m, PRT), but Mattia Coghétto (13; Season PPG: 9.13) kept Racing comfortably ahead with a two-and-three sequence. Early in the fourth, Llevenes hit back-to-back threes to push the largest lead to +35 (84-49), and Racing managed the gap to the buzzer.
Racing's scoring was well spread: Llevenes (15; Season PPG: 14.5) and Hämäläinen (15, five triples) led the way, with Coghétto (13), Sofiane Amadou Bah (12; Season PPG: 11.38), Petit (8) and Dimitry Tozik (8) in support. The visitors won the arc decisively, 12 made threes to 5.
For Mess, Caurlà's all-court effort and Kemevuako's 16 inside points stood out, while Andrade Monteiro added 12. Gilles Weimerskirch knocked down a fourth-quarter three. Coaching choices from Tom Muller kept Racing's shooters in rhythm across rotations; Damien Michels' side found better flow late but the first-half deficit proved too steep.
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