“Hamburg’s UHC Women Cause Upset, Knocking Out Defending Champions in German Field Hockey Championship Quarterfinals”

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UHC women kick out defending champion Dusseldorf

The hockey women from UHC Hamburg managed a big surprise in the fight for the German field championship. Coach Johannes Persoon’s team knocked out defending champions Düsseldorfer HC in the quarter-finals on Saturday. After the 4: 3 a week ago, the Hamburg team celebrated their second win in the best-of-three series with a 5: 2 (1: 1) after a shootout.

The final round, which will be held in Mannheim in two weeks, was also reached by the Club an der Alster, who beat HTHC 6-2 in the first game and then went on to win 5-0 (1-0). In the semifinals, UHC meets Mannheimer HC. Alster has to deal with Rot-Weiss Cologne.

The decision in the two men’s quarter-finals in Hamburg must be made in the third comparison on Sunday. After losing 2-1 to Hamburger Polo a week ago, HTHC equalized with a 1-0 win on Saturday. The UHC prevailed 10:9 (2:2) in the shootout against the club on the Alster, who had triumphed 3:1 in the first encounter.

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