Rosary saves the ice pirates

The ice pirates are slowly getting on track.

Dorfen - What a drama: After extra time and penalty shootout, the ice pirates of the ESC Dorfen were able to score two points with a well-deserved 4: 3 win (1: 0, 0: 1, 2: 2; 1: 0) against EHC Königsbrunn to win.

A second before the final siren, the running and target shooting was rewarded with Bastian Rosenkranz's 3: 3 equalizer.

Until then, the protégés of trainer Franz Steer at the Lithuanian Donatas Zukovas in the gate of the penguins were desperate.

Right from the start, it wasn't just the domestic fans among the 160 or so spectators who couldn't believe their eyes. Not the guests who were not playing on Friday, but the home team determined the pace and direction until overtime despite the previous, exhausting game in Amberg. It was almost a little criminal how Rosenkranz, Vrba, Schroepfer, Sodja and often Hrazdira and Folger could not convert top-class goal opportunities. The 1-0 lead at the break, defender Florian Fischer carefully refined an outnumbered game, was simply far too little.

For the first few minutes after the restart, ESC goalkeeper Luca Endres was the focus, but his front men soon took command again.

Sodja, Dietrich, Rosenkranz and Vrba did not get past Zukovas or just missed.

The 26-year-old Latvian, whose résumé includes appearances in various junior teams and the senior national team of his country, is no stranger to the Bayern league promotion in 2017/18 with Bad Kissingen.

The culpable omission of the best shot opportunities was punished, of all things, when there was a majority in Dorfen, when Hayden Trupp grabbed the puck and knocked it into the Kreuzeck.

As a result, it burned a few times in front of the strong Endres.

A defender even had to clear on the line.

A counterattack put Königsbrunn in the front four minutes after the restart.

This was followed by the prompt equalizer by David Hrazdira and a ten-minute ESC assault.

The hit was made again by Königsbrunn by the US squad with a cunningly converted penalty.

Indescribable scenes then played out on the other side in front of Zukovas, until Rosenkranz scored 3: 3 a second before the end of regular time.

The five minutes of extra time brought no decision despite a mutual goal chance festival.

Tomas Vrba succeeded with the first converted penalty.

Hrazdira aimed too high.

and Urban Sodja hit the rods.

Endres stopped three times on the opposite side, and this time Trupp also found his master in him.

BY HELMUT FINDELSBERGER

statistics

Goals / Assists:

1: 0 (12th) Fischer (Rosenkranz, Schroepfer / 5-4), 1: 1 (28th) Trupp (4-5), 1: 2 (44th) Barchmann (Bitomsky, Bullnheimer), 2: 2 (45th) Hrazdira (Obermaier, Schroepfer), 2: 3 (56th) Trupp (P), 3: 3 (60th) Rosenkranz (Dietrich, Sodja / 6-5), 4: 3 Vrba (P ) -

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Christoph Ober -

Dorfen 2, Königsbrunn 6