T71 Dudelange B controlled Telstar Hesperange 74-47 in M-U14 Division 3: Phase 2 (Aller, game 5) at holleschb2/central, climbing to 4th (+1) while Telstar slips to 5th (-1). After a balanced opening (9-6 for TEL), Carlo Muller's team flipped the game with a 14-0 run to close the first quarter up 20-10. Romas Degutis' side answered with an 8-0 burst early in Q2 (18-20), and free throws by captain Stanislaw Jan Kwasniewski (Season PPG: 7.67) trimmed it to 22-24, but T71 replied with its own 8-0 push to 22-32 and went to halftime ahead 32-26.
The third quarter was decisive: Lorenzo Ethanaël Magoum (23 pts; Season PPG: 13.29) opened with five straight points (a triple then a two) and kept attacking to drive a 23-12 period. With Jim Resl (11; Season PPG: 8.25) steady and Lucas Mutambayi Tshibambi (19; Season PPG: 6.17) piling up points in the paint he had a flurry of baskets during the first-quarter surge T71 stretched the lead to +17 after three and never looked back, peaking at +27 at the buzzer.
For Telstar, Tao Raphaël Ozier-Lafontaine (14; Season PPG: 10.17) led the scoring despite four fouls, supported by Martin Fritsch (10; Season PPG: 8.67). Kwasniewski and Andrei Ionescu (both 6; Ionescu Season PPG: 5.86) added timely buckets, and Martin Giordana Pi had a key stretch in Q2. T71's depth also showed with Levi Neil Ten Besch and Nikola Bugarski adding 6 apiece, and Lou Simon chipping in 4.
Context matters: T71 snapped a long sequence of defeats with this win, while Telstar's slide extends to four straight losses. The visitors won the game's key moments first-quarter 14-0, late second-quarter 8-0, and Magoum's burst to start Q3 and managed the foul picture without a disqualification.
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