The longest away trip of the season takes the GISA LIONS MBC to Freiburg this weekend. The lionesses started the almost 600-kilometre journey to the guest performance with the reigning German champions USC Eisvogel on Saturday (7.30 p.m.) by train once more in an environmentally friendly manner.
Coach Katerina Hatzidaki can fall back on Sarah Mortensen and Tina Stephens, who missed the 62:60 home win once morest Saarlouis due to illness. The game will be broadcast live on Sporttotal.tv.
After a disappointing start to the season with four defeats in the first five games and being eliminated from the DBBL Cup, Freiburg are now on the upswing. After the 96:74 away win in Marburg last weekend, they are in seventh place with a record of 3:5 wins, three positions ahead of GISA LIONS MBC (2:6 wins).
Three top performers from the championship team said goodbye in the summer. The Japanese World Cup participant Shiori Yasuma, outstanding player of the past season, moved to Venice, the Serbian Andjelina Radic joined Polonia Warsaw and the German U20 international Lina Sontag moved to the renowned University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). Champion coach Harald Janson handed the baton to his assistant Victor Herbosa, a 40-year-old Spaniard, and is now back as manager.
Top scorers are USA’s Hanna Little, a veteran winger who averages 17.1 points per game, and shooting guard Christa Reed with 14.3 points. Her compatriot Jessica Loera (13.8), who came from Switzerland, and the now 46-year-old Bosnian Mirna Paunovic (10.9) also score in double figures. Stephanie Wagner (32 years/4.6 points), who came from Marburg and has played for 91 times, also brings a lot of experience to the team.
No decision to protest yet
There is still no decision to report on the protest of the inexio Royals Saarlouis once morest the rating of the game last weekend. As reported, with the score of 53:51 for the GISA LIONS MBC, the guests protested once morest the game evaluation almost three minutes before the end, first verbally through assistant coach Andreas Edelbluth and then also formally through captain Laura Oliveira Ferreira, since Sarah Mortensen briefly had left the hall before the game due to illness, but was not deleted from the game report sheet by the referees.
The league office announced that the justification period had not yet expired.