The Young Eagle Mannheim On Sunday afternoon the U20 DNL Championship in the Top Division In the best-of-five series against the Kölner Junghaie The team from Mannheim secured the title in their fourth encounter with a 3-2 away win.
The Jungadlers had already laid the foundation for today's success with two wins on the first weekend of the final series. After a 3-3 tie after 60 minutes, the game went into overtime – with the Jungadler winning both times, scoring the decisive goal in overtime. Yesterday, Saturday, the Junghaie struck back impressively, securing another home game with a dramatic 8-7 victory in Mannheim.
Im today's fourth game The Jungadlers were able to extend their narrow 1-0 lead from the first period through Gustavs Griva (14th minute) with two more goals from Maxime Bickel and Felix Kerbel (both in the 40th minute) before the second break. In the final period, the Junghaie came close again after Tony-Luka Pavlovic (42nd minute) and Tobin Brandt (45th minute) had reduced the deficit. In the end, Cologne risked everything again and brought on a sixth outfield player. But the Jungadlers' defense held up under the pressure, and in the end there was great celebration on the Mannheim side. This meant that every single game in the final ended with just a single goal difference, which underlines what a great battle both teams put up.
In the semi-finals, the first team from Mannheim had to face the ERC Ingolstadt (3:0 in the series), the Junghaie as second in the table against the Eisbären Juniors (3:2 series score).
Young Eagles head coach Luigi Calce"It was an incredible, tough, and exciting series. We went into overtime twice, and then lost 7-8 at home. It was just very close, but we believed in ourselves and gave it our all. So, praise to our team for their great attitude and their tremendous success. I think, in the end, we deserved to be champions, and we're incredibly happy about it."
Jonas Schwarzfischer, Head of Game Operations at DEB on the Eagles' success and the final series: "Congratulations to the Jungadler Mannheim on the championship, and congratulations to both teams for a close and exciting series that was truly worthy of a final. We saw strong young talent hockey from our finalists; they gave it their all, which is evident from the incredibly close results alone. So, we pay a huge compliment to both teams, even if, of course, only one can celebrate in the end."
U20 DNL Final Top Division
29.03.2025 | Young Eagles Mannheim – Kölner Junghaie 4:3 a.e.t.
30.03.2025 | Kölner Junghaie – Jungadler Mannheim 3:4 a.t.
05.04.2025 | Young Eagles Mannheim – Kölner Junghaie 7:8
06.43.2025 | Kölner Junghaie – Jungadler Mannheim 2:3
Statistics: https://deb-online.live/liga/herren/u20-dnl/