The Grafinger U16 juniors are the number one in volleyball in the Free State.
The young people from Bärenstadt won the title in Amberg.
Grafing
– Two days of committed coaching in the Amberg sports hall strained Fabian Siegel's vocal cords anyway.
Due to various singing interludes on the return journey to the city of bears, the Grafing youth coach finally reaches his vocal limit, when the sporting efforts of the U16 volleyball juniors on the floor of the Bavarian indoor championships have long since been gilded.
"My voice is almost gone, but it was worth it!" Siegel croaks into the phone at midnight, the next Grafinger success report of these days: Both the U20 with head coach Markus Zymmara (we reported) and Siegel's U16 are now driving with great expectations newly crowned Bavarian champions to their national title fights.
Grafings U18 and U14 could do the same in a timely manner and cement the current supremacy of the TSV talent factory in the Free State even more impressively.
"You just have to say that we at Dachau have now outstripped Bavaria's number one," says Fabian Siegel proudly.
"Even though we went into the tournament as the clear favourites, the result is really great and I'm extremely satisfied."
Shortly before the departure, the Grafinger favorites faltered due to the illness-related cancellations of setter Tim Kaupa and middle blocker Joshua Huber, two absolute top performers of the team.
Especially since diagonal attacker Mika Takano with back pain could only play two games as libero or setter on the day of the preliminary round.
TSV Grafing has outstripped Dachau
The setbacks in terms of personnel did not endanger the confident Grafinger group victory in three clear 2-0 victories against Dachau, Mömlingen and Hammelburg without losing a single set.
The performances of his three promoted reservists, "note in unusual positions", were too strong for that, Fabian Siegel praised his youngster trio around Fabian Singer, Emil Mayershofer and Lian Halm.
"Due to the absences of Joshua and Tim, all nine players gave 20 percent more on the final day and triggered a real jolt."
The best game I've ever seen from Robin.
Coach Fabian Siegel on Robin Bein's performance
In the semifinals, an unusually atmospherically charged jolt spilled over onto the pitch.
Organizer Amberg had the larger block of fans behind them in terms of numbers, but the 15 “family fans” from Grafing who had traveled with them had the majority of cheers and made it into the final on their side – 2:0 (25:9, 25:19).
"In the first set we pretty much overwhelmed them, that was almost dangerously clear," Siegel was relieved that in the second period it wasn't Amberg's full risk program "but our individual quality" that prevailed.
Grafinger's final anticipation caused the Achilles tendon pain in the main attacker Tristan Mohr to come to an abrupt halt.
"As soon as I put him on the bench, the mood in the team had already changed," said Siegel and, on top of that, recognized the opponents in the final, Unterhaching,
Again, a defiant reaction from the team was required.
This time outside attacker and birthday boy Robin Bein marched in front.
"Many serve aces, no problems accepting and very strong attacks," Siegel analyzed enthusiastically: "The best game I've ever seen from Robin." been chosen.
So while Bein turned up the heat and played a key role in the 25:19 success in set one, Siegel's assistant trainer Lukas Broghammer, a physiotherapist in training, anointed and kneaded against the clock and around Tristan Mohr's Achilles tendon.
With the start of crunch time in set two (stand 20:19 for Grafing) Mohr was fit to play again.
Two leg aces and a strong Hachinger final sprint followed, which even gave the opponent two set balls (22:24).
Now the two-meter man Mohr was wanted for every Grafinger attack and the addressee really didn't miss an opportunity to score with a bang and overhead - including the 28:26 championship point.
TSV Grafing U16: Fabian Singer, Robin Bein, Matti Burmann, Tristan Mohr, Mika Takano, Lian Halm, Simon Paster, Janno Jell, Emil Mayershofer.
Three reservists come up trumps
Repelled two set balls in the final