T71 Dudelange B controlled the W-U16 Division 2 Phase finale game in Mondorf, winning 57-43 after setting the tone with a 16-8 first quarter. Avanti Mondorf briefly led 3-2, but T71 strung together steady inside scoring to go up 12-5 and closed the period at +8. Mondorf answered with a 7-0 run in the second (from 8-16 to 15-16), before Joyce Perrard (Season PPG: 9.32) hit five straight points (a two and a three) to restore a 25-17 halftime cushion.
The third quarter swung both ways: Laura Kieffer R. (16 pts; Season PPG: 7.42) opened with back-to-back baskets to stretch the lead to 14 (17-31), but Mondorf replied with an 8-0 burst to get within 25-31 and later to 29-33. T71 stabilized through Kieffer's timely finishes and Eva Guedes (8 pts; Season PPG: 4.50), rebuilding an eight-point gap at 33-41 after three quarters. In the fourth, Claudia Portero Martinez (14, ESP) scored four in a row to push T71 clear again, and the visitors closed it out with a 6-0 push to the final margin.
For Mondorf, Sara Pronaj led with 17 points (two threes; Season PPG: 3.88) and Inaya Moubarkak (15, FRA) added 16 while battling three first-quarter fouls. T71's balance told: Kieffer 16, Perrard 12, Guedes and Portero Martinez 8 each, plus Laura Raccogli's 6. Under coach Lynn Biever, T71 climbed two spots to 4th in the phase finale standings and snapped a two-game slide; Olivier Haan's side dropped to 6th. Notably, T71 had also won the previous meeting this season in Mondorf, 77-38, though the gap narrowed this time.
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