Second-placed Racing Luxembourg D improved to 11-2 and stayed in control of the upper part of M-Division 3 with a 69-58 home win over seventh-placed BBC East Side Pirates B, now 5-9. It was Racing's sixth straight victory, and also a 2-0 season sweep against BEPB after the earlier 69-63 away win.
The game stayed balanced for a long time. RACD led 14-12 after the first quarter, but BEPB answered with a 19-16 second period to take a narrow 31-30 halftime lead. The visitors reached their best margin at 37-33 early in the third quarter through Claude Schroeder and Patrick Weis.
That was the key phase of the evening. Racing replied with a 12-2 run to move from 33-37 to 45-39, with Jorge Montero Gonzalez (26, ESP) at the center of it. From there, RACD controlled the rhythm better. Even after Dario Di Francesco's unsportsmanlike foul in the third quarter, BEPB could not turn the momentum back.
Montero Gonzalez finished with 23 points, including five three-pointers, and matched his season high. Lan Horvat Kovac added 10, while Claude Hoffmann (Season PPG: 3.38) gave Racing a useful 7-point contribution. In the fourth quarter, Montero Gonzalez scored 8 RACD points in a row, stretching the score from 59-49 to 67-51; that 16-point gap was Racing's biggest lead.
For BEPB, Patrick Weis (37) scored 12 points and kept the Pirates close into the second half. Larry Da Luz Ep. Harris (Season PPG: 16.64) and Christophe Conter (Season PPG: 9.58) added 10 each, while Schroeder finished with 8.
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