Berlin – Alba Berlin has regained second place in the basketball league. The team of coach Aito Garcia Reneses won their home game on Sunday against the Syntainics MBC from Weißenfels with 93:82 (45:38) and pushed past Bayern Munich (21: 5) with 21: 4 wins in the table . Bayern lost to Hamburg Towers on Saturday evening after extra time with 86:91.
Best Berlin throwers: Niels Giffey and Simone Fontecchio
Just two days after the Euroleague defeat at FC Barcelona, the Berliners were already in a double-digit lead in the middle of the first quarter. The MBC did not come closer than seven points in the entire course of the game. The most accurate Berliners were Niels Giffey and Simone Fontecchio with 17 points each.
In the fight for the playoff entry, the Fraport Skyliners from Frankfurt suffered a setback. The Hessen lost against the Löwen Braunschweig with 68:80 (37:48) and are ninth three wins behind Brose Bamberg and the last playoff rank eight. In a duel between two teams far away from the places for the knockout round, Telekom Baskets Bonn achieved an 83:73 (36:47) victory over s.Oliver Würzburg thanks to a strong second half.
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