First-placed Gréngewald Hueschtert held off second-placed Mambra Mamer 69-64 and extended its winning streak to five games.
GRE took control very early. The home side opened 8-0, led 18-4 in the first quarter and was still clearly in front at 22-11 after 10 minutes. The biggest gap came in the second period, when coach Nicolas Parrish's team pushed the score to 39-14, a game-high +25.
MAM reacted well. Coach Pierre Hebbert's team closed the half on a 13-0 run to 39-27, then scored the first basket of the third quarter for a 15-0 stretch overall and cut the deficit to 39-29. That was the key moment of the game's shift, because the visitors turned a one-sided contest into a real fight.
GRE answered through captain Linus Schumacher (Season PPG: 12.57). He steadied the leader with 8 points in a row early in the third quarter and finished with 25 points, matching his season high. Santiago Capozucca (Season PPG: 11.70) added 10, while 16-year-old Ukrainian Harik Avanesov contributed 7 and Raik Steyer scored 8.
MAM stayed in contact with a very concentrated attack. Jonathan Wallenius (Season PPG: 16.47) scored 23, Henry Murray (Season PPG: 16.40) added 22, and Tadas Stalauskas (Season PPG: 10.88) had 15. That trio produced 60 of MAM's 64 points.
The fourth quarter stayed close. Murray's early three made it 57-51, and MAM later cut it to 66-64. GRE then got the decisive sequence from Schumacher, who scored the home team's final five points, including the late three-pointer for 69-64.
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