Tropics lose to strong lions

A weak second quarter costs Oberhachinger victory

That’s Janosch Kögler, but with Maxwell Dongmo Temoka again, the yellow shirts started their journey away to Thuringia. They had big plans against the strong Erfurt Lions. However, despite a great fight and a comeback in the third quarter, they could not survive in the Lions’ cage. A disastrous second quarter, won by the hosts 28:8, was too high a burden.

After the first 10 minutes of the match were balanced, the men of captain Peter Zeis were still ahead 16:14 in the Rieth sports hall. Then followed the worst moments of the season so far. Although nothing was working for Kyberg’s giants, the hosts played themselves into a frenzy. Noah Kandem in particular, who already had 14 points at halftime, was unstoppable under the baskets. We went into the locker room with a 24-42 deficit.

In the third quarter the Tropics rose again and found their way into the game through the fight. In addition to Niklas Student and Omari Knox, who hit a few quick threes, Jörg Dippold was also able to score after winning the ball in the fast break. When the score went down to seven points (62:69) shortly before the end of the period, there was hope in the Oberhachinger camp. But Florian Guts Löwen took advantage of two unforced errors and went into the final section with a double-digit lead.

Although Knox & Co did everything they could to avoid the impending defeat, the strong Thuringians could no longer butter their bread.

Now we need to put the defeat of the Lions quickly behind us. The derby against FC Bayern 2 is already on the schedule for next Friday. The yellow shirts need to do better here.

Mario Matic: Hats off to Florian and the Erfurt team. The Lions were the better team that day and they deserved to win. We just made too many mistakes today. If you also have 20 fewer rebounds than your opponent away from home, you also need to take care of yourself. We want to do better against Bayern and we are looking forward.

Stats: Omari Knox 19 points/2 steals, Jörg Dippold 14 points/5 assists, Peter Zeis 12 points/3 rebounds/3 steals, Niklas Student 11 points/4 assists/3 steals, Benjamin Sadikovic 8 points/5 rebounds, Mateo Jukic 5 points/2 steals, Phillip Bode 5 points/2 assists, Maxwell Dongmo Temoka 2 points/5 rebounds/3 steals, Fynn Fischer 2 points ,