The two Upper Franconian basketball teams Brose Bamberg and Bundesliga team Bonn: Telekom gets out as a donor – sport”>Medi Bayreuth won their games on Saturday. For the Bayreuth team, the 85:79 win against Heidelberg was their fourth Bundesliga home win in a row.
Bayreuth’s race to catch up in its own hall
Thanks to a successful race to catch up, Bayreuth won 85:79 against the MLP Academics Heidelberg. After the first quarter, Upper Franconia was still 16:29 behind. The best scorer of the game was Bayreuth’s Sacar Anim with 22 points.
1,000 spectators were admitted to the game in the Oberfrankenhalle. The hall was occupied to the last seat. After surviving the corona infection, Bayreuth’s captain Bastian Doreth was back on board. Philip Jalalpoor and Moritz Sanders also returned to the squad.
Bamberg wins with only eight players in the squad
Brose Bamberg celebrated an away win at the Jobstairs Giessen 46ers with 92:89. Due to injury and illness-related absences, there were only eight players in the squad of Upper Franconia, including junior player Lukas Passarge. The game was hotly contested: the lead changed hands a total of 19 times. The best scorer of the game was Giessen’s Kendale McCullum with 27 points.
Bayreuth is currently tenth in the table with ten wins and ten defeats. Bamberg is one place behind with nine wins and eleven defeats.
