Hockey Bundesliga: After relegation: BHC males line direct returns | EUROtoday

Almost to the day precisely 21 years after the primary division promotion on May 23, 2004, the lads’s group of the Berlin Hockey Club relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga South. «I did not have this situation on the invoice. On the opposite, as within the first leg, I had an excellent feeling, “said coach Stan Huijsmans stunned and added:” In the top, we didn’t make vital alternatives and gave away the sport with the requirements. ”

His group would have wanted a house win within the second Playdown duel with the Munich SC on Saturday to compensate for the best-of-three sequence. Instead, the Berliners left quite a few alternatives, together with 9 penalty corners and a seven meter, unused and misplaced 2: 3 (0: 0). “It is bitter, but somehow reflects our season,” mentioned Huijsmans.

The aim is direct return

The Dutch is now aiming for the return. “It is important that we now hold together, because cohesion has always awarded the BHC,” mentioned the coach. “We have to keep our development in focus and will come back even more, even if the situation is incredibly difficult for everyone and we have to process it first.”

On Tuesday he’ll collect his group on the finish of the season, then the main focus must be on the longer term. In the present second division season, the Zehlendorfer wasps have six factors behind the league chief from Frankfurt, 4 factors earlier than the top, which nonetheless makes the primary division promotion of the district neighbor.

BHC girls have left the playoff quarter-finals

After a robust efficiency, the BHC girls failed 2: 3 (2: 2) within the second play-off quarter-finals on the defending champion Düsseldorf HC. “It’s a shame, because the girls deserved more,” mentioned Tin Matković after his final recreation as a BHC girls’s coach.

“The team and coach have noticed that it is time for new input and that both sides need a new challenge after three years,” defined the Croatian, who had led the BHC to the ultimate prior to now indoor season and thus ensured the best success for the reason that final title in 2013.

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