AS Soleuvre B, now 3rd after a gain of two places, beat 6th-placed BBC East Side Pirates B 83-67 and stopped a two-game losing streak, while BEPB's losing run reached five games.
The opening belonged to the visitors. Demir Eco (Season PPG: 10.89) scored BEPB's first 6 points and Quinn Kremer Schram (Season PPG: 8.20) pushed the lead to 8-0. Soleuvre changed the tone quickly. Kenji Calixte, Prasan Prabhu Sankar (Season PPG: 5.44) and Amadou Diallo (Season PPG: 10.57) fueled a 20-8 response, turning that early deficit into a 20-16 lead after one quarter.
The second quarter gave Soleuvre control of the game. The 11-year-old Milo Léo Ferrai (Season PPG: 13.00) was the main spark with 10 points in the period, and Michel Dias's team stretched the margin to 42-28 at halftime. BEPB stayed in touch through Eco and Gil Scheid (BEPB), but the gap never really came down.
The key break came in the third quarter. Prabhu Sankar scored 7 Soleuvre points in a row, Diallo added 11 in the period, and the home side moved clear at 71-47. The biggest lead reached 26 points early in the fourth quarter at 73-47.
East Side had a better final quarter. Eco scored 10 points in the last period and Kremer Schram produced BEPB's last 8 points of the third quarter, but Soleuvre kept enough distance.
Diallo finished with 21 points, Ferrai had 18 despite fouling out, Prabhu Sankar scored 13 and Jonah Calixte (Season PPG: 7.78) added 11. For BEPB, Eco led all scorers with 29, Kremer Schram had 20, and Scheid (BEPB) scored 8.
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