Avanti Mondorf B beat Telstar Hesperange B 78-57 and climbed to 4th place in M-Division 3, a gain of three spots. After two opening defeats, MONB answered with a first win of the campaign. TELB are 9th.
The game flow was largely in Mondorf's hands. MONB opened 8-2, with early scores from Jeffrey Neyen (MONB), Fabio Gaston Rigo (19, 1.78m) and the experienced Nebojsa Nikolic (42, FRA). Telstar stayed in touch at 9-6 and trailed only 21-15 after one quarter, mainly through Loïc Wohl (TELB) and Pascal Wohl (TELB).
The decisive phase came in the second period. Mondorf started it with 6 unanswered points for 27-15, and after TELB had narrowed the gap to 27-23, the home side produced a strong 17-5 run to reach 44-28 at halftime. That stretch gave MONB firm control.
Telstar had some response after the break. Guilherme Andrade Lopes Rodrigues (TELB) and Loïc Wohl helped cut the deficit to 48-36 and later 58-44 early in the fourth quarter, but the comeback never became truly threatening. MONB answered again, and Rigo took over the key sequence: after Nikolic made it 65-51, Rigo scored 9 points in a row with three straight 3-pointers, pushing the margin to 74-51, the highest lead of the game at 23.
Rigo led all scorers with 24 points, all on eight made 3-pointers. Nikolic added 15, Yann Bartholomey (27, 1.96m) scored 12, and Tiago da Silva Figueiredo (MONB) had 9. MONB finished with 12 made 3-pointers. For TELB, Loïc Wohl scored 19, Pascal Wohl 11, Jordan Kaboth 10, while Valentin Mitov (46, BGR) added 7.
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