Women's ice hockey Bundesliga 1998/99

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The 1998/99 women's ice hockey Bundesliga season was the 11th Bundesliga season for women in Germany. Again the Mannheim ERC was in the final, this time able to prevail against the team of TuS Geretsried and thus won the championship title for the third time after three defeats in the final in recent years .

organization

The league was carried out by the German Ice Hockey Federation .

mode

The preliminary round was carried out separately in the relays in a single round each against each with a return leg. The participants for the quarter-finals and the relegation were determined from those placed . The former continued to play for the championship, the latter for relegation.

Preliminary round

The top three teams of the two preliminary round groups competed in the following quarter-finals for the four semi-finals. The three last placed in the north group took part in relegation groups in which the places for the coming season were played out.

Group north
space	Surname	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Mannheim ERC Wild Cats	10	8th	1	1	47:16	17: 3
2.	Grefrather EC Lady Panthers	10	7th	0	3	22:17	14: 6
3.	OSC Berlin-Schöneberg Eisladies	10	5	2	3	31:25	12: 8
4th	TuS Wiehl Penguins	10	5	1	4th	37:28	11: 9
3.	EC Hannover Indians	10	2	1	7th	21:36	5:15
5.	ES white water penguins	10	0	1	9	12:48	1:19

Group south
space	Surname	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	TuS Geretsried mosquitoes	10	9	0	1	87:15	18: 2
2.	ESC Planegg / Würmtal Penguins	10	8th	0	2	45:25	16: 4
3.	Augsburg Ice Cats	10	5	1	4th	38:20	11: 9
4th	DEC Tigers Koenigsbrunn	10	2	3	5	23:47	7:13
5.	EHC Memmingen Indians	10	3	1	6th	27:54	7:13
6th	ESG Esslingen Pesky Kids	10	0	1	9	16:75	1:19

Cross table Bundesliga group north

society
Mannheim ERC Wild Cats		2: 1 game report	4: 3 game report	3: 4 game report	4: 1 game report	9-0 game report
Grefrather EC Lady Panthers	1: 6 game report		1: 3 game report	1-0 game report	2: 1 game report	5: 2 game report
OSC Berlin-Schöneberg Eisladies	2-2 game report	0: 3 game report		3: 7 game report	2: 1 game report	5: 2 game report
TuS Wiehl Penguins	2: 4 game report	1: 2 game report	2-2 game report		4: 7 game report	5: 0 ¹ game report
EC Hannover Indians	2: 8 game report	1: 2 game report	2: 6 game report	2: 6 game report		2-2 game report
Ice sport Weißwasser	0: 5 game report	1: 4 game report	1: 5 game report	4: 6 game report	0: 2 game report

Finals

For the final round, the top three in each of the preliminary round groups qualified. They competed in the finals for four places in the final tournament. The qualified teams played a single round with a return leg against the teams in the other group. The games against teams in their own regional group were taken from the preliminary round.

Games

The matches in the final tournament are shown below in a cross table:

society
Mannheim ERC Wild Cats		2: 1 game report	4: 3 game report	8: 5 February 6, 1999, 5:00 p.m.	4: 6 02/07/1999, 4:00 p.m.	3: 3 January 16, 1999, 8:00 p.m.
Grefrather EC Lady Panthers	1: 6 game report		1: 3 game report	4: 1 January 9th, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	2:11 01/16/1999, 7:00 p.m.	4: 0 01/30/1999, 8:30 p.m.
OSC Berlin-Schöneberg Eisladies	2-2 game report	0: 3 game report		1: 2 01/30/1999, 7:00 p.m.	4: 2 02/13/1999, 7:00 p.m.	5: 1 02/14/1999, 1.30 p.m.
TuS Geretsried mosquitoes	2: 4 January 30, 1999, 7:30 p.m.	4: 0 02/06/1999, 7:30 p.m.	4: 2 January 9th, 1999, 7:30 p.m.		-: -	-: -
ESC Planegg / Würmtal Penguins	1: 3 02/14/1999, 4:45 pm	3: 2 02/07/1999, 4:45 p.m.	5: 2 January 17th, 1999, 11:00 am	-: -		-: -
Augsburg Ice Cats	2: 8 February 9th, 1999, 5:20 pm	1: 2 January 23, 1999, 5:20 pm	1: 5 February 6th, 1999, 5:20 pm	-: -	-: -

Final table of the final tournament

space	Surname	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
4th	TuS Geretsried mosquitoes	10	-	-	-	-: -	-: -
1.	Mannheim ERC Wild Cats	10	6th	2	2	44:38	14: 6
5.	ESC Planegg / Würmtal	10	-	-	-	-: -	-: -
3.	OSC Berlin-Schöneberg Eisladies	10	4th	1	5	27:25	9:11
5.	Grefrather EC Lady Panthers	10	4th	0	6th	20:34	8:12
6th	Augsburg Ice Cats	10	-	-	-	-: -	-: -

Final tournament

The final tournament took place on February 20 and 21, 1999 in Geretsried. The first of the finals played against the second and the third against the fourth.

Semifinals

February 20, 1999
3:00 p.m.

TuS Geretsried mosquitoes

7: 1
(2: 0, 4: 0, 1: 1)
game report

OSC Berlin ice cream ladies

Heinz Schneider Ice Stadium, Geretsried
Spectators: 800

February 20, 1999
6:00 p.m.

MERC Wild Cats

5: 1
(2: 0, 2: 1, 1: 0)
game report

ESC Planegg / Würmtal

Heinz Schneider Ice Stadium, Geretsried
Spectators: 800

3rd place match

February 21, 1999
12:00 p.m.

OSC Berlin-Schöneberg

0: 4
(0: 1, 0: 2, 0: 1)

ESC Planegg / Würmtal

Heinz Schneider Ice Stadium, Geretsried

final

February 21, 1999
3:00 p.m.

TuS Geretsried Moskitos
44. Wiltrud Schmid
45. Michaela Lanzl
50. Nadine Marquardt
58. Andrea Weissbach

4: 6
(0: 1, 0: 2, 4: 3)
game report

MERC Wild Cats
11. Miriam Graf
24. Maritta Becker
36. Maritta Becker
42. Anja Schnetz
49. Maritta Becker
57. Anja Scheytt

Heinz Schneider Ice Stadium, Geretsried
Spectators: 1,000

All-Star Team

Nadine Spanihel (Goal - MERC)
Nina Linde (Defense - ESC)
Michaela Lanzl (Forward - TuS)

Squad of the German champions

German champion MERC Wild Cats	Goalkeepers: Nadine Spanihel , Karin Seitz Defenders: Anja Schnetz , Kristine Maier , Nicole Loth , Christina Fischer , Natascha Schaffrik Attackers: Kerstin Fischer , Anja Scheytt , Patricia Heitzmann , Tanja Gelo , Melanie Rach , Maritta Becker , Constanze Weiß , Merle Schindler , Rebekka Marenbach , Lena Gratzl , Miriam Graf Coach: Danilo Valenti

Individual evidence

↑ Data on the final tournament at hockeyarchives.info (French)

Web links

Reports, results, data and facts about German women's ice hockey at www.damen-eishockey.de

[archiv2-1] Data on the final tournament at hockeyarchives.info (French)