DVO beat Fortuna 30‑31 and are indoor champions for the first time
DVO are indoor champions of the Netherlands for the first time. In a sold-out Ahoy, the team from Bennekom won the Korfbal League final 30‑31 against Fortuna, the number one of the competition. Rosalie Peet scored eleven goals, the last from a penalty in the final minute.
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- Rosalie Peet scores eleven times, including the winning penalty in the final minute.
- The score was level fourteen times, the lead changed hands six times.
- Fortuna miss out on the title in coach Damien Volkerts' last match.
The decision came in the last two minutes. At 30‑30 Fortuna ran out the shot clock and shortly afterwards Fleur Hoek had to be treated for cramp. At the other end Peet was awarded a penalty and converted it: 30‑31.
It was the end of a final that swung in every direction. The score was level fourteen times and the lead changed hands six times. Neither team ever got more than four goals ahead.
"At that moment not very much was going through my head", Peet said about the decisive penalty. The twenty-year-old Peet was named player of the match.
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Boadi against Hoek
DVO opted for a tactical set-up beforehand. Reinier Rensen, coach of DVO, started Daniëlle Boadi on the bench in order to first see how Fortuna would line up. When it turned out that Fortuna had swapped their zones, Boadi came onto the court straight away, opposite Fleur Hoek.
Boadi played with a brace on her thumb, after a thumb injury. Hoek had a hard time against her, but still scored seven times.
Van der Steen brings Fortuna back
DVO opened with 0‑2. After 7‑6 came five goals in a row, two from Gertjan Meerkerk and two from Peet, and after eleven minutes it was 7‑11.
Fortuna took a time-out, in which more tempo in attack was called for. After that Fortuna came back into the match, partly through run-ins from Nik van der Steen.
In the first half Van der Steen went inside successfully four times and added two more from distance. With three goals in a row, from 14‑15 to 17‑15, Fortuna went into the break with a two-goal lead.
Scherrenburg and Meerkerk after the break
After the break Roos Scherrenburg became decisive for DVO. She scored all four of her goals in the second half, including the 30‑30 in the very final phase.
After half an hour Fortuna pulled away to 20‑17, through a long shot from Wouter Wildschut. DVO answered with three goals in a row: Jeffrey van Huenen, Scherrenburg and Boadi brought the score to 20‑20.
In that phase DVO also intervened tactically around Meerkerk. The team briefly took him off for Robbe de Wit and then wanted to put him in the other zone, to slow down Van der Steen.
Meerkerk himself saw it differently. According to Rensen he said that he had Wildschut under control, after which he returned to his own position.
Peet decides it
After that the lead went back and forth, with Peet scoring again and again for DVO. Fortuna brought on Lindsy Krop for Roos van Groen to stop her, but Peet soon got past her and put DVO 26‑27 up.
Peet scored eleven in total, two of them from a penalty. Her 28‑29 and the winning 30‑31 both came from the penalty spot.
Bitter farewell for Volkerts
For Fortuna, Van der Steen was top scorer with eight goals, ahead of Hoek with seven and Jordi van Elburg with six. Van Elburg still put Fortuna 30‑29 up in the final phase.
Fortuna shot far more often than DVO, but DVO shot far more accurately. "We simply can't get it under control defensively", coach Damien Volkerts said afterwards.
It was Volkerts' last match as coach of Fortuna. "I'm not going to blame them for anything", he said about his players. Hoek: "I'm actually a bit in disbelief."
The defeat is bitter for Fortuna. Fortuna finished first in the competition with 30 points and did not lose another match after 17 January, until this final.
Third final, first title
It is DVO's first indoor title, in their third final. The two previous finals were lost to PKC.
The road to Ahoy was tough. In the semi-final DVO needed three matches against LDODK, and DVO won the deciding match in Gorredijk on Tuesday 22‑23, after trailing by four goals.
It is also a title for the new coaching duo Jeroen van Brakel and Rensen, who started in the Korfbal League this season.
De weg naar de finale
Halve finale Fortuna - PKC
- Fortuna - PKC 26-19
- PKC - Fortuna 20-26
Halve finale LDODK - DVO
- LDODK - DVO 29-31
- DVO - LDODK 20-22
- LDODK - DVO 22-23
| # | Club | Pld | W | G | V | For | Against | DS | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1, play-offs | Fortuna | 18 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 507 | 398 | +109 | 30 |
| 2, play-offs | LDODK | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 471 | 401 | +70 | 26 |
| 3, play-offs | DVO | 18 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 446 | 410 | +36 | 24 |
| 4, play-offs | PKC | 18 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 469 | 401 | +68 | 23 |
| 5 | KZ | 18 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 445 | 415 | +30 | 22 |
| 6 | DOS '46 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 444 | 439 | +5 | 17 |
| 7 | Dalto | 18 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 372 | 450 | −78 | 12 |
| 8 | Unitas | 18 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 357 | 443 | −86 | 12 |
| 9 | Blauw-Wit | 18 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 370 | 442 | −72 | 8 |
| 10 | DSC | 18 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 368 | 450 | −82 | 6 |
Goals Fortuna: Van der Steen 8, Hoek 7, Van Elburg 6, Wildschut 4, Van Ginkel 3, Van der Linden 1, Van Groen 1. DVO: Peet 11, Meerkerk 5, Van Huenen 5, Boadi 4, Scherrenburg 4, Van der Neut 1, Stahli 1.