Third-placed BBC East Side Pirates controlled sixth-placed Amicale Steesel 87-61 in Berbourg and completed a third win over AMI this season after earlier successes by 57-49 and 82-65.
The start was competitive. Amicale moved in front 5-2 and later 12-6 behind Bobby Kirsch (Season PPG: 15.53) and 15-year-old Belgian Andreas Nys (Season PPG: 15.00). BEP then changed the rhythm. After trailing by six, the Pirates closed the first quarter with a 13-3 run to turn the game into a 19-15 lead.
That momentum carried into the second period. Coach Thomas Diederich's team built the gap through Sam Schaeffer (Season PPG: 23.05) and Emil Denter (Season PPG: 11.78), stretching the score to 40-22 before Amicale answered late for 40-27 at halftime. Schaeffer finished with 25 points, including 3 triples, while Denter added 22 and had a particularly strong third quarter with 12 points.
The decisive break came after the interval. BEP won the third quarter 27-19 and pushed the margin from 13 to 21 points, 67-46. Sean Harmelin Dostert (Season PPG: 9.44) supported well with 13 points, and the Pirates kept scoring from several spots. Their biggest lead reached 29 points at 87-58 in the fourth.
For Amicale, Nys and Kirsch each scored 19 and kept producing through the game, while Vincent Segers (Season PPG: 14.50) added 9. Captain Miguel Lopez Fernandez had 5 points but was already in four-foul trouble by the third quarter. AMI have now lost 10 games in a row.
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