Team Teaching, now 2nd in the Bascol Division 1 championship round, beat 3rd-placed BBC Police 88-63 after a game that was tight for more than one quarter.
The opening stretch stayed balanced. Teaching went up 4-0 and 7-2, but Police answered well through Eric Picco (PLC), Lionel Delhaye (PLC) and Noah Bertolini (PLC). Bertolini's three made it 16-16, and after a lively first quarter Team Teaching led only 25-24.
The home side created the first real gap in the second period. Scores from Eric Steffen (TEA), Xavier Engel (TEA) and Pol Schwartz (TEA) pushed the margin to 41-32, and despite a brief Police response, Team Teaching reached halftime ahead 47-37.
The decisive moment came just after the break. Teaching opened the third quarter with 9 unanswered points, moving from 47-37 to 56-37. That run changed the rhythm of the game. Police managed only 8 points in the period, while Team Teaching kept scoring through Engel, Majerus and Steffen for a 69-45 lead entering the last quarter.
Police tried to come back early in the fourth and cut it to 69-53, but Team Teaching answered with an 11-0 run to 80-53. The highest lead later reached 31 points at 84-53.
Engel (TEA) led all scorers with 20 points, including 4 three-pointers, while Steffen (TEA) added 19 and Majerus (TEA) and Schwartz (TEA) both scored 10. For Police, Picco (PLC) finished with 17, Bertolini (PLC) with 15 and Norman Kloss (PLC) with 14. Team Teaching had four players in double figures, Police three.
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