BBC East Side Pirates beat AB Contern B 66-52 and avenged the 52-46 loss from the first meeting, moving up to 3rd place (+1) with an eighth straight win. Contern B, now 6th (+1), started better. Elisabeth Engel's team led 14-11 after the first quarter and stretched the margin to 19-13 in the second, with Sophie Grivet and Lori Zoller giving support to Amélie Laure Sybertz.
Stephane Said's side then changed the game. From 15-20, BEP closed the half on a 14-4 run to lead 29-24, with Denise Kirsche (Season PPG: 10.00), Lea Christmann (Season PPG: 11.11) and Jennifer Ferring (Season PPG: 10.72) driving the response. Contern briefly came back to 29-29 early in the third quarter, but that was the key moment: BEP answered with a 12-2 stretch to 41-31. Carole Laplume, in only her 4th game, gave useful interior scoring during that phase.
BEP carried a 43-35 advantage into the last period and later built the game-high lead at 57-42. Contern still had one push, cutting it to 57-48, but a technical foul on captain Tessy Margue stopped that momentum. Christmann, the 23-year-old German, punished it immediately and later hit another three, helping the Pirates secure the last minutes. Zoé Dock added a valuable 5-point burst in the fourth quarter.
Christmann finished with 16 points, Ferring had 13, Kirsche 10 and Dock scored 7, clearly above her season average. For Contern B, Sybertz (Season PPG: 16.88) scored 16, Grivet added 10, Zoller 8 and Margue 7.
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