Now it's official: TSV Herrsching's Bundesliga volleyball players have qualified for the playoffs by beating Bisons Bühl 3-0 at home on Saturday.
Herrsching – February 29th is often referred to as the gift day. The WWK Volleys Herrsching did not miss out on Saturday and gave their fans a magnificent, almost safe 3: 0 (25:13, 25:20, 25:21) home win over the Bisons Bühl. As a result, the team of coach Max Hauser can no longer be deprived of the playoff participation. Even better: Due to the 0-3 defeat of SVG Lüneburg against Powervolleys Düren, the lead in sixth place is now a whopping seven points.
Captain Johannes Tille & Co. needed only 71 minutes to kill the toothless bison. "It is not a matter of course that we win 3-0 against Bühl," emphasized Hauser after the brisk number. After all, the Baden-Württemberg are something like the Herrschinger opponents of fear. “We were very focused right from the start. We made few mistakes, hit hard, ”said Hauser, who looked totally relaxed. Which the 36-year-old also confirmed after the game. "I have rarely been so relaxed. Sometimes I didn't even know what to say to the boys during the time-out. ”Hauser ignored the last minutes of the game. It made his team unnecessarily exciting again.
Jonas Kaminski played again for the weakened Jori Mantha. And unlike a week ago in Eltmann, the 23-year-old caught a cream day this time. Hauser was accordingly satisfied with him. "He bit through there. He accepted very well, served very well and was good on the block. ”The promised man, who had not gone beyond occasional campaigns so far, also enjoyed the time spent. "It was fun. I gained more and more security from minute to minute. "Or, as the player Johannes Tille put it:" This time he didn't piss himself. "
You have to know that Kaminski is normally at home on the diagonal - and that Jalen Penrose is not used there. Due to the thin staff ceiling on acceptance / outside, Hauser Kaminski has been retraining since the beginning of the season. The main focus of the training is on the assumption. "He is insane, he reels off a crazy workload," says Hauser. In contrast to his teammates, Kaminski is only a semi-professional. During the day he works as a chiropractor, during the lunch break he sweats in the weight room and in the evening he clings to ball training. Hauser thinks big of the native Braunschweig, both sides are interested in an extension of the one-year contract.
The story of the eleventh season win in Herrschingen is quickly told. After 21 minutes the first set was in dry cloth (25:13). The second round lasted only slightly longer. Buhl was able to keep up until the middle of the set, after which the home side increased the stroke rate. With a massive butterfly ball, Jalen Penrose, with 17 points again the most successful attacker, put the lid on (25:20). The third movement was initially a copy of the first. Herrsching was already leading 19: 9, the 900 frenetic spectators were already singing anthems of victory, but in the bison the Kamf spirit awoke again. The WWK Volleys finally saved themselves with 25:21 to the finish. The match ball was a clear wrong decision by the referee Mahmoud Alburdeini (Dingolfing), who saw the ball from Bühls Gregory Petty in the out. Late equalizing justice: In the first leg almost three months ago, a wrong decision in the tie-break at 13:14 decided the game in favor of the Bisons Bühl from Herrschinger's point of view.
From the three remaining games against the possible playoff opponents Friedrichshafen, Frankfurt and Königs Wusterhausen, Herrsching needs two more points to secure fifth place in the main round.