Frankfurt am Main. Madness: The Dresden Monarchs have won the German Bowl XLII after a strong performance. In front of 14,378 spectators in the Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt am Main, the team of trainer Ulrich Däuber won with 28:19 (7: 6, 0: 6, 10: 7, 11: 0). Eight years after the lost final in 2013, the championship title in American football goes to the Saxon state capital for the first time – and well deserved, because after the Saxons had been behind for long stretches of the game, they turned the game in their favor in the final quarter.
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The monarchs wanted to know
It took the Monarchs exactly seven minutes of play to score their first points. Darrell Stewart went off through the middle, quarterback KJ Carta-Samuels found the receiver with a spot-on pass. Because kicker Florian Finke still scored the extra point, it was 7-0 for Dresden. A good and hopeful start for the “royal”, but in the first quarter the people of Baden-Württemberg came up again. Tyler Rutenbeck caught Alexander Hauptert’s pass, but because kicker Tim Stadelmayr missed his attempt, it was now 7: 6 for Dresden.
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CLICK THROUGH: That was the final against the Saarland Hurricanes
With a clear 37: 0, the Dresden Monarchs defeat the Saarland Hurricanes and are in the German Bowl – the final of the German football championship.
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After three minutes in the second round, running back Devwah Whaley was on his way to the second Monarchs touchdown, but was stopped shortly before the end zone and lost the ball. The fumble gave the Unicorns their turn – and a little later he had to hit the Quarterback Alexander Hauptert left the field. His injured knee no longer cooperated. The recently newly signed Reilly Hennessey came into the game for him, but the Saxons quickly regained possession of the ball.
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Yard by yard they worked their way towards the opposing end zone and again they failed shortly before the possible touchdown because not their own man but Hall’s Monteze Latimore caught a deflected pass from Carta-Samuels. Now it was the turn of the “unicorns” and pulled their drive through to Hennessey’s final pass on Rutenbeck – a second touchdown for the unicorns, who failed with their intended two-point conversion. This made it 12: 7 for Schwäbisch Hall in the half-time break, which singer Michael Schulte filled with his performance.
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Strong as a bear from Dresden
The third quarter started very badly from Dresden’s point of view, the series of slight mistakes in crucial situations continued. Because of all things the so reliable kicker Florian Finke failed an onside kick attempt, which brought the Haller into possession. And they didn’t hesitate for long and after less than a minute they made it 19: 7 because Yannick Mayr managed a quick touchdown. This put the monarchs in a tight spot. But running back Devwah Whaley brought her up after seven minutes played in this quarter (PAT Finke). Only 14:19, everything open again.
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And now the monarchs wanted to know, the defense pushed the unicorns back into their own half. Dresden’s Kaulana Apelu sank quarterback Hennessey and immediately afterwards Robin Wilzeck sprinted into a Haller punt. New first down for the monarchs, who quickly added a field goal by Florian Finke – 17:19 from Dresden’s point of view. And so it went into the final quarter. Five minutes before the end of the game, Florian Finke scored another field goal – and now Dresden was 20:19 in the front and seemed to really get the upper hand.
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Several strong actions followed, including the tackling of AJ Wentland against Yannick Mayr in the opposing end zone, but also a ball caught by Jonas Gacek, with which he almost ran to the touchdown – if the referees had not accidentally blown the whistle. The extremely important touchdown then followed two and a half minutes before the end when Radim Kalous caught the game device 15 yards from the end zone and ran into the end zone. The subsequent two-point conversion also sat. Now it was 28:19 and the first German championship title for the Dresden Monarchs was within reach.
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When Hall’s Tim Stadelmayr set his field goal attempt too flat 47 seconds before the end, the jubilation on the Dresden side knew no bounds. Then the clock ran down and the first championship title in the almost 30-year history of the Dresden club was in sackcloth. The monarchs celebrated their 28:19 triumph exuberantly on the lawn in the Hesse metropolis and are now allowed to take the trophy with them to the Elbe.
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