Second-ranked Racing Luxembourg B controlled this M-U16 Division 5: Phase 1 game from the opening tip and beat US Heffingen 71-49. RACB improved to 4-1 and stayed 2nd in the table, while HEF dropped to 2-3; despite the loss, Heffingen still gained one place and is now 4th. Racing also bounced back well after its previous defeat, whereas Heffingen's losing streak reached three games.
Coach Dimitrios Minas saw his team start with a decisive 12-0 run and take the first quarter 19-9. Roby Sahr (RACB) drove that early control, scoring 10 points in the opening period. Early in the second quarter he added 6 RACB points in a row, and Racing stretched the margin to 25-11 before going to halftime ahead 39-27.
Heffingen, coached by André Gruskovnjak, stayed competitive offensively through Mex Steinmetz (HEF), Tim Yeong-Jun Kass (HEF) and Mett Dostert (HEF). Kass made the visitors' only three-pointer, and HEF produced a 6-0 run late in the third quarter to cut the score from 54-32 to 54-38. Racing answered calmly and reopened the gap in the last period, with Jules Payen Morolli (Season PPG: 5.40) scoring repeatedly inside. The final margin of 22 points was RACB's biggest lead of the game.
Sahr finished with 24 points, a season high in this competition. Payen Morolli added 14, while Huxley Moss (Season PPG: 6.00) and Henrik Alfred Piirsalu (RACB) scored 8 each. 13-year-old Raphaël Massard (RACB) contributed 5. For Heffingen, Steinmetz led with 15 points, Kass and Dostert added 11 each, and captain Deivys Almeida Monteiro (HEF) had 6. The game was extremely clean, with only one recorded personal foul, committed by Jan Vyroubal (HEF) in the first quarter.
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