First-placed Musel Pikes, coached by Majdi Anan, controlled the game against fourth-placed AB Contern from the opening minutes and stretched their current run to six straight wins. After Julie Braun Silva scored for 3-2, Musel answered with a 13-0 run to 16-2 and later closed the first quarter on another 7-0 burst for 33-8. Zoé Freitas (Season PPG: 27.79) set the tone early, while Marie Gloden (Season PPG: 16.88) and Lisa Kleuls (Season PPG: 8.67) added steady support.
Contern had a better start to the second period. Braun Silva (Season PPG: 22.94) scored the first 5 points of the quarter and tried to bring rhythm to Dave Schroeder's team, but Musel quickly restored control. Elisabeth Furtado Monteiro (Season PPG: 7.72) gave good bench production and the home side reached halftime with a 50-19 lead.
The away side reacted again after the break. Emily Quirke (Season PPG: 12.06), a 16-year-old Irish player, scored Contern's first 6 points of the third quarter and cut the gap to 50-25. Musel answered immediately with a 9-0 run, starting with a Kleuls three and followed by scores from Ashareela Prins Van Wijngaarden, 15, from the Netherlands, and Freitas, pushing the game to 59-25.
In the fourth quarter Musel kept the pressure high. Coralie Heynen (Season PPG: 10.85) hit two straight three-pointers, and an 11-0 run lifted the score from 79-34 to 90-34, the highest lead of the evening at 56 points. Musel finished with 31 made two-pointers and 7 threes. Freitas led with 22 points, Furtado Monteiro had 15, Kleuls 13 and Gloden 12. For Contern, Braun Silva scored 21 and Quirke 14 despite two early fouls in the first quarter and four overall. Musel has now beaten Contern three times this season by 37, 51 and 49 points.
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