Amicale Steesel controlled this M-U14 Division 3 Phase finale return game from the first quarter and won 77-49 away at T71 Dudelange B. The visitors are now 1st in the standings after a gain of one place at 5-1, while T71B stays 4th at 2-4. Amicale also extended its current run to four straight wins and moved to 3-0 against T71B this season.
The game quickly leaned toward Thorsten Freiheit's team. After T71B stayed close at 5-11, Amicale pushed the score to 15-5 and later closed the first quarter with 6 unanswered points for a 23-12 lead. The second period was the key stretch: Amicale opened with a 6-0 run, held T71B to only 5 points in the quarter, and went into halftime with a solid 39-17 advantage.
T71B reacted better after the break, mainly through 12-year-old Nikola Bugarski (SRB, Season PPG: 7.77) and Lorenzo Magoum (Season PPG: 14.71). Magoum scored 7 points in the third quarter, but Amicale still answered every push and kept a 59-34 margin entering the last period. When T71B reduced the gap to 40-62, Amicale produced the decisive 12-0 run to 74-40; Raphael Boreiko (Season PPG: 15.44) scored 7 straight points during that sequence.
Boreiko led all scorers with 20 points, Levi Lepage Post (Season PPG: 13.23) added 18 with three three-pointers, and 13-year-old Aiden Riley Smith (CAN, Season PPG: 11.77) finished with 15. Captain Harons Rafaels Faduls (Season PPG: 8.87) picked up two fouls in the opening quarter but still contributed 8 points.
For T71B, Bugarski finished with 16, Magoum had 11, Jim Resl (Season PPG: 8.31) scored 7, and Lucas Mutambayi Tshibambi added 6.
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