The BG Göttingen: Sartorius Juniors welcome Dresden”>Sartorius Juniors of the BG Göttingen have defended their lead in the relegation round group North in the youth basketball Bundesliga (NBBL/U19). In a hard-fought away game, head coach Venelin Berov’s team beat the Central German Basketball Academy 79:69 (40:35) in Weißenfels. “The game could have gone the other way. But we showed morale and character and fought to the end,” Berov said. The three-day away trip of the Sartorius Youngsters to Hamburg and the associated three away games in the youth basketball Bundesliga (JBBL/U16) had to be postponed due to the hurricane and the storm surge.
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At the beginning of the Juniors game, both teams struggled offensively, the youngsters from Veilchen went into the first quarter break with a 16:17 deficit. In the second period, the Berov team got into the game better and better. With a now much more effective offensive, the Göttingen team took the lead and extended it slightly at half-time (40:35). “We fought very hard for the ball again. But defensively we weren’t awake and gave up too many rebounds,” said Berov.
After the break, the Juniors managed to defend their lead in a balanced third quarter with few points (12:12). At the beginning of the last section, the MBC juniors came within a point with a 7-0 run, but the southern Lower Saxony guests around top scorer Chris Schultz (38 points) countered with a 10-0 run to make it 65:54. The people from Weißenfels had nothing more to oppose. “Chris Schultz was outstanding, both in offense and in defence. He showed character and gave the team the necessary self-confidence,” praised Berov. – Juniors: Zelanto Vorsovsky (13 points), Scherpenbach, Christou (6), Dahm, Dohrmann (11/1), Schultz (38/6 threes, 20 rebounds, 9 assists), Rensing (7), Yavsan, Wagner-Berger (2), lesser man (2).
