T71 Dudelange C controlled this M-Division 4 opener from the first minutes and beat Rebound Préizerdaul B 71-30. The home side set the tone with a 9-0 start, moved to 15-2, and finished the first quarter clearly ahead at 21-6.
The key stretch came in the second period. After 23-6, T71C produced a 10-0 run to 33-6, with Charles-André Lys (32, FRA) scoring 10 points in a row by himself. Rebound Préizerdaul B tried to break the rhythm with two first-half time-outs under coach Marc Mannes, but T71C still reached halftime with a 40-11 lead.
Préizerdaul had its best offensive phase in the third quarter. Elmir Pjevic (PREB) and Nathan Varela (PREB) gave the visitors more scoring punch, and PREB cut the margin to 50-25 at one stage. T71C answered quickly through Alessandro Agostinucci (52), who built his 20-point game entirely with 10 made two-point baskets, and Lys, who kept the offense stable.
The fourth quarter was one-sided again. After Pjevic hit from long range for 58-30, T71C closed the game on a 13-0 run and pushed the gap to its highest level, 41 points.
Lys led T71C with 23 points, Agostinucci added 20, Francisco Villoldo Feijoo (52) scored 11, and Aldin Kocan (46, SVN) had 9. For PREB, Pjevic carried the attack with 17 points, including three 3-pointers, while Varela added 7.
In the new classification, T71C climbed to 1st place and PREB is 4th after the first game of the round-robin phase.
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