HANDBALL NEWS English edition 20, February 19 2008
GREAT DANE OVERWHELM PLAY-OFF RIVALS CAMBRIDGE GREAT Dane finished their regular season fixtures in style with an emphatic 37-19 victory over play-off rivals Cambridge at Leyton on Sunday. Already assured of top spot in the Division One (South) table, Great Dane notched up a twelfth consecutive league win with the victory over Cambridge, who turned out with six outfield players and two goalkeepers for the game, which had been re-arranged from its original date. The match started evenly, with the scores tied at 4-4 after the first quarter of an hour, but with 14 players available Great Dane were always fresher and they pulled away to
lead by five goals at half time. The second half saw the Danes run riot, and with Cambridge taking risks to try and remain in contention Great Dane made several interceptions and scored many fast break goals. Another good performance from the Great Dane keeper Matthias Worms was complemented by five goals each from Dusan Janik and Jordi FerrerTorra, and although there were six goals apiece from Cambridge players David Guehring and Helmut Kraus, they could not stop Cambridge losing out. Elsewhere, Bolton battled to a thrilling 30-29 victory over Haslingden in the Northern section.
On paper this should have been an easy victory for Bolton. However, things were a little close for comfort as Sunday saw a rampant and impressive performance from the Haslingden team. Haslingden set off at a fast pace and, capitalising on some poor handling, missed shots and good saves, quickly opened up a five-goal lead early in the game. Bolton brought back the deficit to level the game only to see Haslingden pull away again. By half time, Haslingden were three goals up. The second half started no easier for Bolton and Haslingden soon established a seven-goal lead. However, the experienced Bolton side never gave up and started to reel in the deficit. With the Haslingden defence breaking up most of Bolton's build up play it was down to some individual efforts and partnerships to
BHA official Lund honoured ONE of the British Handball Association’s key players on their World Class Handball Programme has been given a top award by Queen Margrethe of Denmark. Allan Lund, technical consultant to the BHA, was made a Knight of the Dannebrog - the Danish Flag - at a lavish ceremony recently, in recognition of his work with schools sport. Lund works with the Great Britain players at their Academy in Aarhus, where they are receiving expert coaching as well as playing for clubs across Denmark - the newly crowned European
Champions of the sport following their dramatic 24-20 victory over Croatia in last month’s final in Norway. “It is a great honour for me,” said Mr Lund, who was secretary of the Danish Schools Sports Association for more than 30 years. “It was very nice to meet the Queen, and I had the honour of having a long conversation with her about sport. She is a very intelligent lady, and she obviously knows a lot about sport.” Allan, from Nyborg in Denmark, is no stranger to British handball having been a Technical Consultant to the BHA in the 1980’s. He is a former coach of the Danish national women’s team and top Danish first division club GOG. He is also a senior lecturer
with the International and European Handball Federations, and sits on the European Handball Federation Methods Commission. Allan has previously coached the Saudi Arabian national team and was Technical Director to the Bahrain Handball Federation.
force a break through the Haslingden defensive wall. Bolton clawed their way back into a three goal lead, but Haslingden continued to push and leveled the scores with minutes left and set up a tense finale. A Bolton goal with a minute to go pushed the tie back into Bolton's hands, and they had to defend desperately to hold Haslingden at bay.
RESULTS, Feb 17 National Div One (North): Bolton 30 Haslingden 29. National Div One (South): Gt Dane 37 Cambridge 19.
FIXTURES, Feb 24 National Div One play-offs (Leyton): Great Dane v Bolton, Oxford v Manchester, Cambridge v Manchester U.
Trial by Television THE latest Talent ID handball trials at Manchester were the subject of a special feature on Manchester’s own TV station, Channel M, who attended the women's event at Bellevue Sports Centre last month. The channel’s magazine programme Sports Central
is available on Sky channel 203 or NTL channel 878 on Feb 20 at 10am, Feb 21 at 12.30pm, Feb 23 at 1pm and Feb 24 at 9.30am. The show will also be on their website, www.channelm.co.uk
Student Championships A GOLDEN goal was needed before Strathclyde beat Manchester in the women’s final at the National Student Championships in Liverpool last weekend, and in the men’s event, Manchester beat Oxford 14-8. Check out next week’s Handball News for a special report and pictures from the two-day event at the Greenbank Academy.
Men's National Lge Division One (North) TEAM P W L D F A Diff Manchester U 12 11 0 1 349 221 128 Manchester 12 10 1 1 332 275 57 Bolton 12 7 4 1 378 361 17 Liverpool 12 5 6 1 306 290 16 Haslingden 12 3 9 0 293 332 -39 Wirral 12 3 9 0 243 302 -59 Liverpool SG 12 1 11 0 215 338 -123 Men's National Lge Division One (South) TEAM P W L D F A Diff Great Dane 12 12 0 0 306 185 121 Oxford Univ 12 8 3 1 332 288 44 Cambridge 12 8 4 0 351 311 40 Olympia 12 7 5 0 299 280 19 Ruislip 12 3 7 2 290 324 -34 Southampton 12 1 10 1 259 328 -69 Allan Lund - Knighted. Nottingham U 12 1 11 0 219 340 -121 Handball News is produced by Snowdon Sports for the British Handball Association, supported by For more details please contact 0845 230 0803 or log on to www.englandhandball.com
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