Austria’s U16 men’s ice hockey national team had to accept a clear 3:13 defeat at the four-nation tournament in Romanshorn at the final prestiget duel against host Switzerland. Erik Stöckl (23rd), Matteo Filippitsch (42nd) and Raphael Klemenz (43.) scored the goals for the ÖEHV selection. Austria took the fourth finish with a win and two defeats with three points.
Austria started the last tournament game against Switzerland in the Ezo Ice Sports Center-Oberthurgau with goalie Luc Schneider, and Philip Hudritsch acted as backup. The host played powerfully at the beginning, and the ÖEHV selection was initially-also because of an early outnumber-especially with defensive work. A little later, Marlon Zanoli made the Confederates 1-0 with a dryly used penalty (7th). After that, the home team continued to act, but keeper Luc Schneider radiated calm and security in this phase.
Rot-Weiß-Rot worked into the match, but the Swiss scored the second goal: Fynn Lötscher defeated Austria’s goalkeeper Schneider from a short distance to 2-0 (14th). In the first section, Alexandre Matthey-Claudet increased to 3-0 for Switzerland (19th) after a nice combination. In the second third, the Swiss had a lightning start: Marlon Zanoli scored 4-0 (21st) with the first attack from the bully away after eight seconds.
Almost two minutes later, Head Coach Johannes Leitner’s team was finally on the scoreboard: Erik Stöckl used a cross pass from Tobias Schenk, who launched a quick start over the left side, to 1: 4 (23rd). Unfortunately, the hope of an Austrian chase did not last long, the Swiss followed up with a double strike: First, Alexandre Matthey-Claudet had overwhelmed to 5: 1 (26th), only 13 seconds later Caspar-Roman Vontobel scored the 6: 1 (27th).
A little later, Alexandre Matthey-Claudet completed a nice Swiss attack. With a rich shot and his third hit hit, he defeated keeper Philip Hudritsch, who now guarded the goal for Schneider, 7-1 (29th). The game was decided before half -time.
At the beginning of the last section there was a goal with five goals in the first five minutes: Matteo Filippitsch shortened with a wonderful shot to 2: 7 (42nd), a little later Matteo della Chiesa increased to 8: 2 for the Swiss (43.). Exactly 21 seconds later, Raphael Klemenz scored the 3: 8 with a placed long shot (43.). With another double strike, the home side made their goal account in double digits: Tobias Lednicky provided 9: 3 (44th), Nik Diener provided 10: 3 (45th). Levon Trösch used an outnumbered with a full shot to 11: 3 (51.).
Almost five minutes before the end, Felix Dabringer failed with a penalty on the Swiss goalie Thomas Maillard. Maurin Leuenberger increased to 12: 3 for the Confederates (57th) before Aeneas Orlandi provided the 13:3 final score (59.).
Despite victory over German, only 4th place
The four-nation tournament ended the ÖEHV selection in fourth place with a win and two defeats in Romanshorn. The tournament winner was Slovakia, which celebrated three clear victories after 60 minutes each and won nine points one in front of Switzerland and Germany.
Head coach Johannes Leitner came up with his conclusion after the tournament: “We had some failures, two players, a third player was paused. We were playful and run -up to the end. It was good to see that three games were a big challenge for us in three days. Nevertheless, a positive conclusion for us: We were able to see well through the strong opponents because we have to improve and what we have to improve because we have to improve. Our weaknesses were revealed.
U16 four-nation tournament (Romanshorn, Switzerland):
Switzerland vs. Austria 13: 3 (3: 0.4: 1.6: 2)
Fri, August 22, 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Goal shooters Austria: Erik Stöckl (23rd), Matteo Filippitsch (42nd), Raphael Klemenz (43.)
Already played:
Austria vs. Germany 5: 3 (3: 0.1: 1.1: 2)
Thu., August 21, 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Goal shooters Austria: Matteo Filippitsch (6./PP1), Paul Partl (13th), Fynn Oberrauner (16./SH1), Erik Stöckl (31st), Anton Wandaller (60./En.)
Austria vs. Slovakia 0: 8 (0: 2.0: 4.0: 2)
Wed., August 20, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
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