Oberhausen. The new additions stand out from the second division champions of the previous season. Coach Ralf Najdowski warns against arrogance as there is a risk of some failures.
The blue wall is up and the new ones are kicking: With the usual numerous and loud support from the Holten fans, the Holten judo team triumphs with an 11:3 victory on the first day of the 2nd league against the Sport-Union Witten-Annen. Four points go to the new arrivals.
“You have to be loud!” demanded JTH head coach Ralf Najdowski his fighters before the last encounter of the first half of the season, and the atmosphere at this point left nothing to be desired. The Holten fans had seen their first narrowly lost opening fight Cevin Börgel (-100 kg) as well as the defeat of Denny Koppers (-73), who received the third penalty in the Golden Score and had to give up the fight.
Denny Koppers had to be congratulated in the first fight after Golden Score after receiving the third penalty. © FUNKE Photo Services | Kerstin Bögeholz
There was plenty of adrenaline when the new signings Manuel Baptista (-81) and Basile La Fontaine (-66) made their debut on Holten soil. Both thanked them for the warm welcome with two victories: Baptista after just 45 seconds, La Fontaine gave the Holteners some more thrills before he also managed to equalize 2-2 with his victory in the Golden Score.
Christian Beckmann brought the JTH forward for the first time
Alexander Heidrich (JTH) in the fight against Andreas Altergott. © FUNKE Photo Services | Kerstin Bögeholz
“fighting pig” Christian Beckmann (O-tone Ralf Najdowski) brought the JTH +100kg into the lead for the first time, 3:2. Florian Hück (-60), most recently third on the West German, and Alexander Heidrich (-90) secured the JTH the 5:2 lead at the break.
As always, coach Ralf Najdowski (among his fighters) was very committed to the matter. © FUNKE Photo Services | Kerstin Bögeholz
“With a head!” Najdowski wanted to bring the entire game home. The Holten fighters were not lacking in passion and fire either. Börgel fought his way to a well-deserved victory against his opening opponent with a Waza-ari in exactly four minutes of fighting time; Koppers also won cleanly with Ippon after just 40 seconds, and Baptista then won after just 34 seconds. Find Bittscheidt came up to 66 kg for La Fontaine. He “gave a lot of gas at the top” in order to get stuck “at the bottom” in the ground fight, for which he is widely feared. The Witten trainer let out a desperate “Not ground, not ground!”, but he won’t let go of whoever Bittscheidt has here: Ippon for Bittscheidt and the JTH after 59 seconds of total fighting time.
Florian Hück (JTH) in the fight against Armen Avetisyan. © FUNKE Photo Services | Kerstin Bögeholz
+100kg came with it Aliaksandr Vakhaviak another new addition Christian Beckmann replaced. The Belarusian giant is the complete opposite of the quick-witted Bittscheidt and left his opponent “fidgeting” until the opportunity to calmly O-soto-gari arose after just 59 seconds: Ippon and point for Holten. Florian Hück ended his second fight after just 44 seconds after his opponent was disqualified with ippon; Heidrich lost just after the regular fight time of four minutes with a Waza-ari deficit.
Some fighters will have to pass as the season progresses
The final score was 11:3
the championship lead for the Holten judo team after the first day of fighting
. “It was another unified team performance, we were able to compensate for a number of absences due to illness and quickly came back from the initial deficit,” said JTH head coach Najdowski, summing up the result and at the same time warning against arrogance. “Neither Flo nor Alex and Cevin are available to us for the rest of the season, now others have to deliver and the competitors will chase the league champions.”
The next time this will be away against Mönchengladbach on April 27th.
More at www.judo-team-holten.de.
2024-03-17 14:02:25
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