TSV Hagen 1860 2 – Basketball BTV Brühl 56:62 (9:9/23:21/11:20/13:12)
The 1960s received Brühler TV’s team for the injury time game on Monday night. Brühl, located in the top half of the table, was the clear favorite against the winless bottom of the table, as the personnel situation of the hosts strengthened again. Sinje has already had to fall ill on Friday. Sophie took it back and on match day Jule also retired for a short time. Also, Julia and Henriette weren’t in the best physical condition. One has been struggling with ankle problems for weeks, the other has just recovered.
The start was correspondingly bumpy. You had trouble controlling your defensive rebound against the physically superior guests. At the same time, they were offensively impressed by the visitors’ length. Defensively they were still decent. After seven minutes, Brühl was leading with 2:9. Then Georgia suddenly turned on the offensive instead of the usual defensive. With And1 and another layup, he brought his team up to 6:9 and then Lina hit the three to tie it up. The fan who had arrived, thanks to the U16/1, was delighted and they suddenly equalized at half-time.
After the break, Tilda turned up the heat. With a three-pointer, he gave his team the lead (14:12) and the U16 / 1 mat went crazy. Now he was going back and forth. Crosshairs open by both teams. Points to one end, points to the other end. Antonia and Katharina then finally put their colors ahead with 4 points and this was held at the start, could even be increased to 32:27 before careless mistakes melted the 7-point lead to 2 at half time.
After the break it took a long time for both teams to find their rhythm. Brühl only equalized after three minutes and then went straight ahead, but the 60s were undeterred. The Gialloneri retaliate and take the lead again with the three points (39:36) thanks to Lore. Lina even put her team back in front with 43:37, but now some really crazy things have happened. The 60 completely lost the thread and within two minutes the guests had gone from minus 5 to plus 7. An 11-0 run at the end of the quarter and suddenly you had a mortgage.
Captain Henriette was the first to react. Julia has always brought energy and fighting spirit to her short assignments. But after the first approach Brühl jumped to 11 (58:47). But the women of Volmestadt didn’t give up, shortened again to 52:58. But in the end the visitors were able to maintain their lead over the half and start their journey home with a 56:62 victory.
“It hurts. We lost this game today in the last two minutes of the third quarter. However, I’m proud of this team. We’re playing better and better from game to game and we’re proving to be very competitive even with a mini-squad. Now it’s important preserve form over Christmas and continue to attack fully in 2023,” said the coach.
Played for TSV:
Funke, T. (17); Theis Leon, G. (6); Teschner, H. (4); Dreschers, L. (9); narrow staircase; JM; Riesner, L. (4); Somerau, A. (4); Welzel, K. (12)
