This has never happened before: Sarner women bowlers are champions

Since last Friday, there's a new champion among the South Tyrolean women's bowlers: Sarntal has done it! With a 6-0 home victory over Plose, Adele Ainhauser and her teammates secured the title two match days before the end of the season. It's the first time in the club's history that they've won the championship.

In their home match at the Sarnen community center, the new champions never gave their opponents a chance. With a superior performance, they secured a commanding victory. Sarntal's Angelika Stauder and Plose's Verena Kostner played to a 2-2 draw in sets, but Stauder's 538-513 pinfall advantage earned her the point.

Clear victories followed for Greta Trojer and Adele Ainhauser. The two Sarntal bowlers didn't drop a single set against Plose's Erna Obexer and Verena Fischer. Trojer won with the day's best score of 576 pins against Obexer (511), Ainhauser managed 566 pins, and Fischer only 472. Finally, Sarntal's Dagmar Wiedenhofer and Plose's Annemarie Prenn took to the lanes. Here, too, the result was decisive: Wiedenhofer won 3:1 in sets and 558:505 in pins. With a final score of 2238:2001 overall, the final result was 6:0, and the Sarntal championship celebration could begin.

The situation is quite different for Plose, who are once again in danger of relegation after their defeat. Ridnauntal won 5-1 against already relegated Pustertal last matchday and have now closed the gap to just one point behind Plose. The relegation battle is heating up again, and Jaufenburg, with 14 points, are not yet completely safe. Fugger surprises against Neumarkt The often one-sided top match proved to be a real back-and-forth affair this time around. While in recent years KK Neumarkt had been far superior even to the second strongest team in South Tyrol, Fugger Sterzing, the team from the lower Adige Valley is showing signs of weakness this year. This was also evident in the direct match between the two top teams, which ended in a 4-4 draw.

The Fugger Sterzing team celebrates their point gained against serial champions Neumarkt.

In reality, it wasn't Neumarkt, but Fugger Sterzing who came closest to victory. The match results, however, showed a 4-2 lead for the Wipptal team, who delivered an outstanding away performance in Leifers. Ultimately, Neumarkt, playing without their foreign player Erik Kuna, relied on the exceptional talents of Vilmos Zavarko and Tamás Kiss, who not only contributed team points but also boosted the overall score, thus preventing a defeat.

Zavarko was also the first player from Neumarkt to compete. He faced Fabian Rainer and gave no quarter. The Serb won with 650:556 pins and took all four sets.

Neumarkt captain Georg Righi was defeated by Fugger player Thomas Rainer. Rainer won 575-567 (2,5-1,5 in sets). In the two subsequent matches, the Fugger players took the lead: First, Manuel Hofer defeated Alex Posch (Neumarkt) 624-604 (3-1 in sets). More surprising was the defeat of Neumarkt player Armin Egger against Stefan Zini: Zini won 607-597 (2-2 in sets).

The last two matches were decisive. First, from Fugger's perspective, when Reinhard Gruber gave the young Neumarkt player Daniel Prinoth no chance whatsoever, winning 627:543 (4:0 in sets). Then Kiss corrected the pattern against Sterzing player Egon Ralser with a 631:555 victory (3,5:0,5 in sets), thus securing the decisive lead in the overall score (3592:3544 pins) for the Unterland team and sealing the 4:4 draw.

Nevertheless, the A1 championship title will remain in Neumarkt. Coach Hermann Ludwig's team can secure it as early as Saturday in their home game against Tirol Mutspitz.

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This has never happened before: Sarner women bowlers are champions

For nine consecutive seasons, the women's A-class championship title went to one and the same team: Fugger Sterzing. This dominance has now come to an end.

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