Black Frogs Schieren overpowered Telstar Hesperange 104-22 in Schieren, staying perfect (5-0) and on an eight-game winning streak across the season. Telstar drop to 4-1 but remain second in the championship round. The gap to the first meeting (63-41 in Phase 1) grew decisively.
Game evolution set the tone early. Schieren opened 6-0, Telstar briefly answered with a triple (6-3), then the hosts ripped a 25-2 close to the first quarter (31-5). Ana Margarida Resende Cerqueira (17, PRT; Season PPG: 20.89) scored 9 of Schieren's first 11 points, and Yana Ferreira piled six first-quarter field goals, including a burst of four in a short span. The second quarter brought another decisive 19-0 run from 41-9 to 60-9; foul trouble never materialised, with just one personal foul whistled on each side before halftime.
Telstar's captain Ketsiah Joy Dor (15, FRA; Season PPG: 24.00) briefly stemmed the tide in the third with four straight points (66-10 to 66-14), but Schieren kept finding answers Joana Goncalves Teixeira added a three, and the Frogs' interior game continued to generate easy baskets. The hosts closed the night on their largest lead at the buzzer (+82).
Top performers, Black Frogs:
- Resende Cerqueira 22 (8x2P, 2x3P; Season PPG: 20.89)
- Ferreira 22 (11x2P; Season PPG: 14.67)
- Débora Teresa Dos Santos Kitumba (15, PRT) 17
- Lara Boudler 12 (Season PPG: 10.86)
- Captain Kathrine Hansen 14 (Season PPG: 7.33)
Telstar highlights:
- Dor 7 (Season PPG: 24.00)
- Rayhana Louhmadi 6
- Lara Englebert-Thiel 5 (early three; Season PPG: 6.67)
- Glenda Toth-Magyari 4
Under coach Diogo Jesus Lopes, Schieren scored almost exclusively from the field (only one made free throw), with three made threes and relentless two-point conversion. Coach Ivan Yeromin's team found early points from the perimeter but couldn't slow the Frogs' runs in either half.
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