Racing Luxembourg B won this close Phase finale return game 75-64 over Nitia Bettembourg and climbed to 2nd place (+1), with NIT now 3rd (+2). The season head-to-head is level at 1-1 after Bettembourg had taken the first meeting 63-60.
RACB opened slightly better and led 17-13 after the first quarter. NIT responded in a solid second period. Adrian Zianveni (Season PPG: 10.83) produced a personal 5-0 burst to turn 19-19 into 24-19, and the visitors edged in front 31-30 at halftime. The third quarter stayed very tight. Nathan Monteiro Delgado (Season PPG: 4.50) and Ewen Man-Fei Leung (Season PPG: 19.30) kept Bettembourg productive, but Racing stayed attached and the game was tied 46-46 going into the last quarter.
The decisive moment came early in the fourth. NIT moved ahead 50-47, then coach Uros Niksic's side answered with 16 unanswered points, from 47-50 to 63-50. That was the key run and also RACB's highest lead stretch. William Jaud, the 15-year-old French player (Season PPG: 8.43), finished with 22 points and gave Racing major scoring punch late. Captain Bartosz Olejnik, 14, added 20 points, while Luigi Trapani had 9 and Adam Thiault and Shining Li scored 8 each.
For NIT, Zianveni scored 18, Leung added 15, Monteiro Delgado 12 and Matthieu Gerouville 9. Bettembourg stayed fully in the game for three quarters before that long fourth-quarter drought changed the balance.
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