Regensburg - "I slept badly last night," admitted Norbert Meier.
Reason was the cliffhanger at the top of the thigh injured Clippers Ranisav Jovanovic.
The had a test in the morning match, made up the attack so Terodde Simon and Sebastian Heidinger.
"Our juniors did a good storm," was the coach that brought Marcel Gaus from the NRW-league team in the final stage, still a youngster on the offensive.
"He was fully-motivated", was Meier. Gaus picked up in injury time - from one week ago as already Deniz Kadah - the yellow card. Meier grin: "On Friday I even praised him because he dares to touch the coach. Then he took me umgenagelt in training ... "