(Updates with late matches, quotes)
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN, Aug 4 - Second division St. Pauli beat
Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 to provide the first shock of the German
Cup on Saturday.
Energie Cottbus became the second Bundesliga side to fall in
the first round, losing 6-5 to third division Rot-Weiss Essen on
penalties.
Bundesliga champions VfB Stuttgart survived a scare as they
needed two penalties from Roberto Hilbert, the second a minute
into stoppage time, to scrape a 2-1 win over SV Wehen Wiesbaden
in a match that saw both sides reduced to nine men.
Six other Bundesliga clubs won their first round matches
against teams in lower divisions on the first weekend of
competition in the new season after a three-month break.
In the biggest upset of the first round, Fabian Boll scored
in the 87th minute for St. Pauli, regular giantkillers who
reached the semi-finals two years ago.
For Leverkusen, who finished fifth last season in the
Bundesliga and qualified for the UEFA Cup, it was their first
Cup exit in the first round in 11 years in a match played in
front of a crowd of 15,000 in Hamburg.
"It's fantastic to beat a team of millionaires," said Boll.
Werder Bremen avoided embarrassment when a Boubacar Sanogo
goal in the 90th minute gave them a 1-0 win over third division
side Eintracht Braunschweig.
Borussia Dortmund beat FC Magdeburg 4-1, Hanover 96 defeated
Rot-Weiss Ahlen 3-1, and Hertha Berlin came safely through 3-0
against SpVgg Unterhaching. Hansa Rostock crushed fourth
division side Rot-Weiss Hasborn 8-0 while Kaiserslautern beat SV
Wilhelmshaven, another fourth division side, 4-0