Men’s recap: Pikes take a 2-point-lead over Esch, Telstar with key-win over Zolwer

Let’s take a closer look at the men’s games in the play-offs and in the play-down from Saturday-evening.

The Musel Pikes are now 2 points ahead of Basket Esch in the standings. However, they have not yet secured the top spot with 2 games remaining.

PLAY-OFFS

Musel Pikes – T71 95:90
– Kalmes had 27 points and 15 rebounds for the Musel Pikes
– Holland led the Pikes with 29, Laster (T71) had a game-high 32.
– Musel Pikes stay on 1st place in the standings.

Heffingen – Racing 52:84
– Heffingen scored only 6 points in the opening quarter
– Racing reduces the gap to Heffingen to 1 point.
– Bernimont had a game-high 23 points!

Basket Esch – Etzella 62:89
– Etzella was in full control of this game and decided the game with a big run in the third quarter. It seems like the team is slowly getting to full strength after the acquisition of their new professional players who are both playing extremel well since their arrival in Luxembourg.
– Kinney had 31/15 for Etzella, Philippe Gutenkauf added 21.
– Esch only hit 37 percent of its shots.

PLAY-DOWN:

Black Star – Amicale 82:86
– Johnson and Morris scored 68 points combined for Black Star, Kendrix had 33 for Amicale while Medeot and Hoeser both added 12.

Résidence – Contern 113:84
– Contern played with 2 new professional players (see the link for details and highlight-videos –> NEW_PROFESSIONAL_PLAYERS_CONTERN
– Neal and Bivins combined for 60 points, Andjelkovic had 28 points for Contern.
– Amicale trails both Arantia by 2 points in the standings right now.

Arantia – Sparta 90:91
– Arendt made the decisive free-throw with 7 seconds remaining.
– sparta remains unbeaten in the play-down and has a comfortable lead over Amicale right now, Arantia still leads Amicale by 2 points.

Telstar – Zolwer 77:71
– Telstar takes a big 3-poin-lead over Zolwer with his victory and has made a big step towards promotion!
– The trio Foster/Jefferson/Traer combined for 65 points!

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Foto: Änder Schwartz (Musel Pikes facebook page)

Par FLBB , le 29/02/2020 à 22:26