GG beat DSC 34‑24: nine goals from returning Griemink

GG and DSC played their first match of the Korfbal League 2 on Saturday 7 November in the Groen-Geelhal in Wormer. DSC were relegated from the Korfbal League last season, GG started with a new coaching staff around Henk Jan Mulder and Mark van der Laan.

Terrence Griemink, who came over from LDODK, is captain of GG. Kevin Dick is also back in Wormer.

Beforehand Mulder said that his team had to put more pressure on defensively and be calmer on the ball in attack. "Fast is not always good", he said. Together with the staff, the group set the goal: trying to win promotion.

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DSC were without Coen Spoor, who is out of the team for a long time. Coach Bo van Hoof started with Timo de Wit, Mitch Bogers, Maud Smulders and Jiske van Brenk in attack. Asked for a prediction, he said: "Well, difficult, but I always think we'll just win."

Griemink breaks open the first half

The start was even. Renske Relou scored most of DSC's goals in that phase, and De Wit put his team ahead for the first time. With eleven minutes left to play in the first half it was 8‑8.

Griemink became decisive before the break. He made it 13‑10 and also 14‑10, after which DSC took a time-out. Mick van Nieuwenhuijzen then made it 15‑10 and Britt Kwantes 16‑10.

Then DSC came back. Smulders made it 16‑13 and Anne de Kok 16‑14, with less than two minutes left before the break. DSC also switched their defence: De Wit went to defend Kiko Weenink and Bogers took Griemink.

Anna de Ridder made it 17‑14, Daan van Montfort scored the half-time score: 17‑15. At half-time a breakdance group gave a performance in the hall.

After the break GG pull away

Lisanne de Bruin and Dick scored the first two goals after the break: 19‑15. DSC kept hanging on after that and Smulders cut the gap to two from a penalty. Griemink answered with his sixth and seventh goals, 24‑20.

Dick made it 25‑20 and Relou 25‑22, but GG stayed ahead. With 28‑24 Griemink scored his eighth.

Earlier in the second half Van Hoof had brought Tibo van Helvoort onto the court. "We had to do something to put Terrence under a bit more pressure after all", he said. "It did put more pressure on as such, but Terrence just kept on scoring."

From 28‑24 only GG scored. Dick scored his fifth, Griemink his ninth and Sascha Horak 32‑24. Weenink scored the last two goals, to 34‑24.

"We want promotion"

"This gives so much peace in the travelling", Griemink said about his return. "I'm playing with all my friends again", he also said. About the season he was clear: "We want promotion, we've agreed that with each other."

He pointed to the Monday training sessions of Chris Kaper, on an individual level. "That efficiency, we have Chris to thank for that, I think." According to him GG did concede too many goals in the first half.

Mulder calculated that it was 17‑15 at the break and that his team then won 17‑9. "If one thing is right with us, it's fitness and conditioning", he said. At the team meeting on Thursday it had already been said what had to happen if it was still close at half-time: "just keep going doggedly, then we should be able to play them into the ground."

Still he remained critical. "Above all I thought the DSC women were too dangerous", Mulder said. According to him, after the break GG dared more on the outside, and closed off the feed behind better.

"Simply shot down"

"We were simply shot down today", Van Hoof said. "We concede 150 chances today and that's really the biggest problem, I think." According to him it went wrong after the break: "We had to bring a lot of energy to get a good chance."

DSC work with a permanent analyst and used that to make a plan: De Wit had to be relieved by playing more with two women at the front. On the other side, DSC wanted to give certain GG players a few more chances. "But if they score them all, you can throw all that data in the bin", Van Hoof said.

"We just concede goals too easily and we have to take a good look at that", De Wit said. In what he says is his thirteenth season, he sees no fixed top teams, and DSC think the top four is achievable.

GG play on Sunday 15 November at 14:30 away at Blauw-Wit, the other team that was relegated from the Korfbal League. "We really have to brace ourselves", Mulder said. DSC host AWDTV on Saturday 14 November in Eindhoven.