BBC BCEE edged Team Teaching 83-79 in Hamm after a tight, swing-heavy game. The hosts started fast (27-21), fuelled by Claude Bemtgen's early barrage from deep, including back-to-back triples to push it to 17-7, the night's largest BCEE lead. Team Teaching flipped the momentum in the second quarter (11-20) with threes by Michel Kirsch and Xavier Engel and steady trips to the line from Daniel Weyrich to take a 41-38 halftime advantage.
The third quarter was a shootout. Pit Meintz and Engel answered BCEE's perimeter volume, but Bemtgen kept striking and Thierry Abdiu added long-distance makes. Team Teaching still led 64-63 after three. Early in the fourth, the visitors stretched it to 69-63, their biggest margin. Coach Belva's side answered with an 8-0 run: a Bemtgen triple and a Robert Brinck three flipped it to 71-69. After Kirsch's three put Team Teaching back up 74-71, Alec Goedert went on a personal 5-0 to restore control, and Brinck drilled another three for 79-75. Team Teaching tied it at 79 through Kirsch and Weyrich at the line, but BCEE closed: a Goedert basket, then an unsportsmanlike and a technical on Kirsch led to his disqualification and two made free throws for the final cushion.
Key performers
- BBC BCEE: Bemtgen (28) hit eight three-pointers; Goedert (17) was the late-game scorer and added crucial free throws; Brinck (16) buried two fourth-quarter threes; Abdiu (16) knocked down four triples. BCEE totaled 14 made threes.
- Team Teaching: Weyrich (22) consistently produced, Engel (20) mixed threes and drives, Kirsch (13) hit timely shots before his late ejection, and Pol Schwartz (13) contributed across the first three quarters. Team Teaching finished with nine made threes.
Coach Belva's group won the perimeter-volume battle and the decisive late-game sequence; coach Meintz's team led entering the fourth but couldn't withstand BCEE's closing run.
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