League leaders AB Contern, now 6-0 and on a six-game winning streak, won 61-34 at Black Frogs Schieren. Despite the defeat, Schieren moved up three places to 4th in the classification.
The game was competitive early. After 2-2, Contern used a 9-0 run, with Alex Wies (Season PPG: 10.00) already setting the tone, to open a first clear gap. Schieren still stayed in contact at 15-8 after the first quarter.
The home side produced its best reaction at the start of the second period. Marlow Panella and Nick Kraus (Season PPG: 14.29) helped bring FRO back to 15-15. That tie was the key moment of the game. Anthony Franck Tomba's team answered immediately with an 11-0 run, built through Killian Bakayoko (CON), Emil Dostert (Season PPG: 12.38) and Damian Ioannis Xirouchakis (Season PPG: 19.57), and went into halftime ahead 26-15.
Schieren had some answers in the third quarter through Mathis Kraus (Season PPG: 12.71) and Tom Jaeger, but Contern kept control. Roman Casanova Zaychenkov (Season PPG: 8.67), the 16-year-old Spaniard, scored 7 Contern points in a row late in the period and pushed the visitors to 43-25.
Nigel Tolentino's side still made one last push, opening the fourth with a 7-0 burst to cut the score to 43-32 after Micah Libang's three-pointer. Contern then closed the door with an 18-2 finish, their biggest lead reaching 27 points at the end.
Wies led Contern with 13 points, while Casanova Zaychenkov had 11 and Dostert and Bakayoko added 10 each. For Schieren, Mathis Kraus scored 8, Panella 6, and Bouzidi, Jaeger, Furtado Correia and Nick Kraus finished with 4 or 3. Milo Reiser (Season PPG: 8.71) collected three fouls in the third quarter and ended with four.
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