Swakopmund
The first round of the Bank Windhoek Fistball League took place at the Swakopmund Fistball Club (SFC) in Swakopmund over the weekend.
Cohen 1 and SKW 2 won all their matches in their respective league divisions. In the first encounter in the national A-league the two club teams from Cohen faced each other. The first team had no problems advancing to a quick 3:0 set margin. Only in the fourth set did the second team come back into the match, forcing Cohen 1 to make errors.
Deservingly, they took that set. As the game continued Cohen 2 proved to be a force to be reckoned with as their spiker, Fritz Röthel, pressured the defence successfully. However, Cohen 1 managed to get the better of the sets and won in the end with 5:1.
In the clash of the titans between titleholder SKW 1 and opening tournament victors Cohen 1, Cohen took SKW by surprise in the first set conceding only their first point after an 8:0 lead and winning the set comfortably, as well as two sets thereafter.
With SKW bringing on ex-national player Christoph Kubirske new tension was created. The defence of Cohen was unable to return his spikes and SKW won the fourth set, cutting the score to 3:1.
However, Cohen 1 was not to be outdone. Although the defence of SKW 1 with Marc-Andre Witte, Stephan Zimny and Oliver Lerch were pretty solid they could not counter the powerful spikes of Tristan Minz and Rico-Kühnle Kreitz and Cohen finished the game with a deserving 5:1 victory.