Weißenfels faces elimination from the quarter-finals

The MBC Syntainics basketball team are on the brink of elimination in the championship play-off quarter-finals. The club from Weißenfels also lost the second encounter in the "Best of Five" series against FC Bayern Munich by 65:80 (32:38) on Tuesday. The cup winners had already lost the first game on Saturday in Munich by 60:78 (27:41).

Former Halle player Andreas Obst, Johannes Voigtmann (15 apiece), Vladimir Lucic (13) and Niels Giffey (12) played the biggest part in the champions' success. Michael Devoe (17), Eddy Edigin (12), Spencer Reaves (11) and Ty Brewer (10) scored the most points for the home side.

The club from Weißenfels was only able to hold its own against the first-placed team in the regular season in the opening spell and benefited from its good start up to the twelfth minute (12:7, 6). Munich turned the game around with a 5:0 run from 21:24 (12th) to 26:24 (14th) and pulled away by 34:28 (17th) and 54:38 (28th) to make it 70:50 (34th).

The club from Central Germany bared its teeth at Munich's tough defense as the game wore on. The poor shooting percentage from beyond the arc (just 16 percent) and the higher number of turnovers (12:8) sealed defeat for the home side, which lost to Munich for the third time in a row after winning the cup semi-final.