Amicale Steesel B, 10th before tip-off, took a close 64-60 home win over 8th-placed Gréngewald Hueschtert C and moved up one position, while GREC slipped one place and suffered a second straight defeat.
GREC started better. Dimitrios Papachatzis (GREC) opened with a three, and with Anastasios Kotsopoulos (GREC) they helped the visitors into a 7-3 lead. AMIB then changed the rhythm: Gil Majerus (AMIB) scored early, Bill Paul Fischer (AMIB) and Tom Kapgen (AMIB) followed, and a strong 11-4 close gave the home side a 14-11 first-quarter edge.
In the second period, Luca Gardin (AMIB) and Bob Welbes (AMIB) stretched the margin to 20-13, which was AMIB's first real break. GREC answered well and turned 13-20 into 28-24, with Olaf Recht (GREC), Kotsopoulos and Christos Nterelis (GREC) all contributing. AMIB reacted again through Ken Konrath (AMIB), Majerus and Tom Hoffmann (AMIB), but Savvas Leventis Giannas (GREC) left the visitors ahead 30-29 at halftime.
The third quarter was decisive. Benni Reichling (31, 1.85m, Guard/Forward) and Konrath pushed AMIB from 29-30 to 39-32. GREC came back to 41-41, with Papachatzis scoring six points in a row, but Majerus answered with eight straight points of his own and AMIB entered the last quarter up 54-46, its biggest lead at +10.
GREC made one more push. The Greek pair of Kotsopoulos and Papachatzis cut it to 56-54 and later 60-57. Kapgen scored an important basket for 60-54, Majerus added another for 62-57, and Reichling hit the last two free throws for 64-57 before Leonidas Grigoriadis (GREC) made the final three.
Majerus and Reichling led AMIB with 14 points each, Konrath added 10 and Kapgen 9. For GREC, Kotsopoulos produced 20 and Papachatzis 17.
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