Gold for Filler and Batkowski
Medal fight between Germany and Poland ended in a dead heat Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: The new European Straight Pool Champions are Joshua Filler (GER) in the pupil’s division and Sebastian Batkowski (POL) in the junior’s division. Filler started out nervous in his match with Krystian Cwikla (POL). Cwikla went ahead and took an early 31:4 lead. He played much calmer and seemed to be more focussed than Filler. But Filler never gave in. He stayed in the match and Cwikla committed some unforced errors. Filler brutally punished that by running 45 balls on Cwikla to turn the score 65:37 in his favor. That shocked Cwikla. He could not find his way back into the match and allowed Filler to take the points needed to win the match and the Championship title with 75:43. In the junior’s division, Batkowski found a tough match with Tobias Bongers (GER). The match was even for a long time. But then Batkowski ran 76 balls in two consecutive innings on Bongers, suddenly leading 76:50. Bongers hung in there and […]