Sparta Bertrange C overpowered Racing Luxembourg B, 83-35, in the M-U14 Division 5 Phase 2 round-robin at Atert/Terrain1. RACB opened through Timofei Plechko for 0-2, but Coach Tine Nagy's side answered with control and closed the first period on a 7-0 burst for 18-8. The second quarter began with a 5-0 push and ballooned into a 12-2 run (from 18-8 to 30-10), setting a 33-16 halftime cushion.
RACB's captain Raphaël Massard (Season PPG: 8.0) knocked down the game's lone three in the third, yet SPAC kept building, with Giovanni Vena (12, ITA) starting to dominate inside. The margin stood at 55-29 after three. Early in the fourth, SPAC produced the decisive 14-0 run (from 59-31 to 73-31), and later closed with a 6-0 finish. Coach Christian Frick's team never found sustained offense in the final frame.
Vena led all scorers with 24 and sealed the game with a late flurry. Gabriel Sierra Ferruz (13, ESP) added 14, while Panagiotis Vergis chipped in 11 and Ozan Donmez 10. Raphaël Grieco (Season PPG: 11.1) contributed timely first-half baskets, and Thor Wintersdorff was steady in transition. For RACB, Plechko led with 10; Massard had 7 before fouling out in the fourth, and both Roman Bilousov and Gabriel Bernard Marcolin scored 6. Jean Georges Pongas fouled out in the third, compounding RACB's foul trouble.
SPAC scored five points from the line to RACB's two and stretched the lead to a game-high 48 at the buzzer. In the table, Sparta climbs to 2nd (+2), Racing slips to 3rd (-1). RACB's two-game winning run ends here.
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