A pitched battle to retain a share of first place in the BKT EuroCup Regular Season's Group B ultimately went to the home team.
Bourg outlasts Cluj, 92-88, to stay unbeaten
Game Report
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Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse continued flying high in Group B by turning back hard-charging visitors U-BT Cluj-Napoca with a thrilling 92-88 decision on Tuesday. Bourg now boasts a 3-0 group record and will wait to see how defending champion Dreamland Gran Canaria (2-0) fares at Dolomiti Energia Trento (0-2) on Wednesday to know if it holds first place alone after three rounds. Cluj suffered its first Group B defeat, dropping to 2-1.
Bryce Brown drilled 5 three-pointers among his game-high 25 points for Bourg. Jeremy Morgan and Isiaha Mike added 15 each while Zaccharie Risacher scored 11, including the free throws that sealed the victory with 7 seconds left. Cluj, which rallied from 19 points behind late in the first half but never tied or led, got 22 points from Dennis Seeley, 12 from Jarell Eddie and 11 from Adam Mokoka.
Risacher scored the game's first 5 points, Hugo Benitez added 4 and Morgan struck from deep as Bourg took a 12-3 advantage. Morgan and Mike connected on an alley-oop and hit a basket each as the lead climbed to 19-10. First baskets by Earl Rowland and Maksim Slash would soon make it a double-digit difference that Cluj's Seeley lowered to 31-22 after 10 minutes. Emanuel Cate helped Cluj keep cutting the gap to 31-26, but Brown's pair of triples restored a 39-28 difference for Bourg. That soared to 51-34 as Mike got hot and Bourg was content to trade baskets until leading 55-38 at halftime.
Cluj focused on defense out of the lockers and made a 2-9 run with 6 points from Seeley to get within 57-47 midway through the third quarter. Partick Richard's steal for a layup by Bryce Jones kept Cluj coming back. Brown's next triple made it 61-51, but Mokoko scored and fed Andrija Stipanovic as the visitors refused to go away. Missed free throws kept Club from getting closer, though, as Bourg stayed in front 66-56 after 30 minutes. Seeley got Cluj within 69-61 before Brown and Morgan hit back-to-back tripes and Risacher finished a block at one end with a layup at the other to make it 77-63. It didn't matter. Mokoka would keep Cluj close until Seeley and Eddie Jarell struck from downtown to make it 83-78 with 2 minutes left. Morgan seemed to settle the hosts with 4 points in the next-to-last minute but Jarell and Seeley buried triples early in the final minute to make it 87-85 with 24 seconds left. A split of 6 free throws by both sides left a 90-88 scoreboard with 7.2 seconds left, when the teenager Risacher dropped both of his to make sure the win stayed at home in Bourg.
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