The catch-up game on Wednesday evening (7:30 p.m.) at Herner TC begins a busy end-of-season phase for the Bundesliga women’s basketball team of the Medical Instinct Veilchen BG 74, sometimes with two matches a week. After a two-week break, head coach Goran Lojo‘s team have to find their rhythm again.
The trainer was recently successful as national coach with the team from Bosnia-Herzegovina. BG player Dragana Domuzin was one of the youngest players in the squad and featured in both games. The long international trip to Japan to qualify for the World Cup was worth it. Even though it was clear shortly after arrival that all three teams in this group would have a ticket to the World Cup due to the cancellation of Belarus, Lojo’s team still gained important experience. In Osaka, Bosnia and Herzegovina lost 64-96 to Canada. In the second game, hosts Japan, the silver medal winners of the Olympic Games 2021, awaited a team accustomed to success. 87:82 Lojo’s team won the game and brought the Asians only their third defeat in the past two years.
The Veilchen head coach and Domuzin have been back in Göttingen since Monday evening. After a long weekend off at the start of the international break, the team trained with assistant coach Jonas Fischer. “The free weekend was important to clear my head, after that everyone was busy,” reported Managing Director Richard Crowder. The focus of the team is now on the final phase, in which important points for staying in the class still have to be collected. Five wins from 19 games are still not enough to feel safe. “We still have a lot, a lot to do,” Crowder looks further than Wednesday’s game at Herne, sixth in the table.
Two players will definitely not be there. While one of them tested positive for Corona, the season is over for Lena Wenke. She sustained a foot injury that turned out to be a torn tendon and required surgery. The season is over for them.
By Kathrin Lienig
