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DUISBURG - The German champion BC Horster Eck lost on the final day of the bundesliga the match against BC Elversberg: 7-1. The result was not important for Horster Eck: the strongest team in the bundesliga won the title two weeks ago without a defeat.
The champion played in his last match without Torbjörn Blomdahl and Martin Horn. The young Korean world champion junior, Haeng Jik Kim, played as the leader of the team and lost 50-44 against Peter Ceulemans. Johann Schirmbrand defeated Thorsten Frings. Markus Dömer was the only one who tied against his opponent, Frank Eversmann lost and barely scored 0.600 average.
Horster Eck has finished the liga with 32 points, BC Elversberg finished on second place with 30 points, BC Witten with 23 points on third place. Eddy Leppens excelled for BC Witten on Saturday. The Belgian defeated his Danish opponent Michael Lohse with 50 caroms in 15 innings, an average of 3.333. On Sunday Leppens lost his match for BC Witten against his countryman Martin Spoormans 50-43 in 41 innings.
Today the best match was played between Eddy Merckx and Michael Lohse. The Belgian won 50-44 in 22 innings.