Hannover 96 went down in flames against Bayer Leverkusen, while Mainz 05 continued their promotion charge with a win.

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HANSA HOLD ZEBRAS
Heath Pearce played the last 12 minutes for Hansa Rostock in their 1-1 tie at fellow Bundesliga strugglers MSV Duisburg.

Ivica Grilic gave the Zebras the lead in the seventh minute when his free kick whistled past Hansa goalkeeper Stefan Wächter, but Rostock's Nigerian striker Victor Agali leveled on 20 minutes following fine work by 36-year old former Aston Villa midfielder Stefan Beinlich.

The visitors dominated the game against the Zebras, who stay in the drop zone, but moved off the bottom of the table into 17th place. Rostock remains 14th and host Hertha Berlin on Saturday.

Scoring
DUIS - Ivica Grilic 3 7'
HR - Victor Agali 1 (Stefan Beinlich) 20'

Line-ups
DUIS - Tom Starke; Christian Weber, Iulian Filipescu, Fernando Santos, Blagoy Georgiev, Ivica Grlic, Tobias Willi, Mihai Tararache, Christian Tiffert (Maicon 68'), Claudiu Niculescu, Manasseh Ishiaku (Bojan Vrucina 5')

HR - Stefan Wächter; Tim Sebastian, Gledson (Junior Alves Orestes 45'), Marc Stein, Kai Bülow, Stefan Beinlich (Zafar Yelen 56'), Tobias Rathgeb, Christian Rahn (Heath Pearce 78'), Fin Bartels, Addy-Waku Menga, Victor Agali

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HANNOVER BEATEN AT BAYER
Steve Cherundolo went the 90, but saw his Hannover 96 team downed 2-0 at Bayer Leverkusen.

Sal Zizzo was not named to the game day 16.

Cherundolo survived a penalty appeal in the third minute when he appeared to have handled a Theofanis Gekas effort, but the Greece striker sent Leverkusen into the lead on the half hour with a clever lob over Hannover goalie Robert Enke.

The Greek marksman turned provider in the 39th for Swiss midfielder Tranquillo Barnetta to double the home team's advantage with a powerful drive.

Hannover's best chance came just after the quarter hour mark when Sergio Pinto saw his shot cleared off the line, but otherwise the day belonged to Leverkusen, who missed a string of chances to add to their win.

Bayer stay fourth and in the UEFA Cup slots, while Hannover remain 10th. The Reds host Arminia Bielefeld at the AWD Arena on Saturday.

Scoring
BL - Theo Gekas 9 30'
BL - Tranquillo Barnetta 5 (Theo Gekas) 39'
 
Line-ups
BL - Rene Adler; Gonzalo Castro, Karim Haggui, Manuel Friedrich, Arturo Vidal (Lukas Sinkiewicz 86'), Bernd Schneider (Pirmin Schwegler 73'), Simon Rolfes, Tranquillo Barnetta (Paul Freier 79'), Vratislav Gresko, Theofanis Gekas, Stefan Kiessling

H96 - Robert Enke; Valerian Ismael, Steve Cherundolo, Christian Schulz, Michael Tarnat (Ferhat Bikmaz 76'), Vinicius, Hanno Balitisch, Sergio Pinto (Arnold Bruggink 67'), Szabolcs Huszti (Gaetan Krebs 67'), Benjamin Lauth, Mike Hanke

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MAINZ TOP KICKERS
Neven Subotic went the distance as Mainz beat local rivals Offenbach Kickers 1-0 at the Stadion am Bruchweg to stay second in Bundesliga 2.

Each side spurned chances before defender Tim Hoogland beat Offenbach keeper Cesar Thier to a 53rd minute corner to head home.

Mainz substitute Nejmeddin Daghfous missed the target from close range late on, but the points belonged to the home team.

The win keeps the 05-ers in a promotion slot, four points behind leaders Borussia Monchengladbach. 
Scoring
MNZ - Tim Hoogland 4 53'

Lineups
MNZ - Dimo Wache; Tim Hoogland, Neven Subotic, Nikolce Noveski, Marco Rose, Miroslav Karhan, Daniel Gunkel, Milorad Pekovic, Markus Feulner (Nejmeddin Daghfous 76'), Felix Borja (Ranisav Jovanovic 90'), Srdjan Baljak (Chadli Amri 69')

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ON THE SIDELINE
Bryan Arguez watched from the bench as Hertha Berlin drew 1-1 at Borussia Dortmund.

Kamani Hill did not dress for Wolfsburg's 3-0 win over Energie Cottbus.

Joe Enochs did not take part as Osnabrück scored a 1-0 triumph at Erzgebirge Aue.

Josh Grenier sat in the dugout as Koblenz fell 1-0 at Cologne.