The Grafing volleyball players have completed their last away trip this season.
Successful and tired.
Because after the 3:1 success (25:20, 22:25, 25:22, 25:19) at VGF Marktredwitz, the men around TSV trainer Heiko Roth secured second place in the promotion round of the 3rd division east ahead of time .
BY OLAF HEID
Grafing – It remains to be seen officially whether this entitles you to promotion.
Afterwards, after an intense, exciting duel, both teams went to celebrate together, as Grafing's captain and libero Korbinian Hess revealed with a laugh.
"It took a long time.
I wasn't back home until 9 a.m..” It was fun to play in Upper Franconia.
The Marktredwitzer Halle with officially 125 spectators had once again turned into a "cauldron", which the Grafingers had boiled after 90 minutes.
"Both teams gave it their all.
We defended well and probably blocked better in the end," Hess analyzed the game in fifth place, who hadn't had any chance of promotion before.
In the tight phases, the chances in attack were used better in the end.
"We wanted it more and pushed it through to the end," said the TSV Libero.
One of Grafinger's strengths in this round came into play again.
"Perhaps we didn't always play consistently, but when it became important in the games we had the will to get the set," said Hess.
The coach has a large part to play with his work and motivation, "in addition, we have grown together as a team in the interpersonal area."
And that's why the team in Marktredwitz reacted brilliantly after the negotiated set equalization and fought for the third round.
After that, the hosts lacked the will to turn the game around in section number four.
"We were always four points ahead and Marktredwitz gave up at some point," said the libero.
The jubilation after the 3:1 triumph (Andreas Bachmann became player of the day) was great.
There was a lot of tension among the Grafinger volleyball players.
"We've definitely been promoted," explained Hess in view of the positive constellation in the 1st Bundesliga, in which more places are free for ambitious teams from the level below (Karlsruhe, Freiburg and possibly Dachau).
As a result, the holes in the 2nd Bundesliga South have to be filled again.
Eltmann (last TSV opponent on March 18) as the winner of the promotion round gets a place – and probably TSV Grafing too
Grafing: Daniel Vogt, Florian Drescher, Philipp Küchenhoff, Korbinian Hess, Jannik Birkholz, Adrian Nachtwey, Noah Primus, Hannes Zelenka, Andreas Bachmann, Johannes Becker.