In the first game on Saturday, Roberto Bahler (EHS) and Tony Moyo (Storks) signed for a pitchingduel. The two pitching aces struckout 27 batters combined and gave up only three hits. Bahler threw a one-hitter and struckout 11. Moyo struckout sixteen batters and gave up two basehits.
EHS opened the score in the first inning when Anthony Beaumont doubled with one out, moved on a grounder and scored on a passed ball. In the third inning, after Moyo struckout the first two batters, Michel Groenhart homered to make it 2-0. Two innings later, Groenhart was ejected, after arguing a strikeout call by Home Plate Umpire Rob Veldkamp.
The last six batters in the EHS-batting order struckout eleven times and received the five walks Moyo threw, which were the only times those batters reached base. One of the walks was a lead-off (!) intentional walk for Milton Gilbert in the fourth inning.
Storks had runners on first and second with one out in the first inning, but then Steven Ketting grounded into a double play. In the second inning, Storks stranded a runner at third base.
In the third inning, Kenny Dame walked with two outs, but then Roberto Bahler retired the next eight batters in a row, before walking Dame again in the sixth at bat. Dame went on to advance to third base after a sac-bunt and a passed ball, but Bahler ended the inning with another strikeout.
The lone hit, Bahler gave up was hit by Ed Hoet, who led off the second inning with a single.

In the next game, Storks recovered from the loss and won 5-0 to win the Holland Series and the title.
After leaving runners in the first and second inning, Storks scored its first run in the third inning, but again stranded two runners. In the third, Robert van der Vlist led off with a walk, moved on a sac-bunt and scored on a single by Kenny Dame.
In the fifth, Storks added two runs. Van der Vlist again led off with a walk and moved to third base on a 2-out single by Steven Ketting. He then scored on a wild pitch, which brought Ketting to second base. Next, Ed Hoet walked. Ketting then scored on a single by Ronald Romijn, after which starter Roberto Bahler was relieved by Glen Moreland, who enabled Hoet to score on a wild pitch.
With two outs in the sixth, Robert van der Vlist singled and, after stealing second, scored his third run in the game on a single by Joost Droog.
Storks-pitcher Tony Moyo struckout eleven batters and gave up three hits. The biggest scoring opportunity for EHS came in the seventh inning. Before that at bat, Anthony Beaumont led off the third inning with an infield-hit, but then Moyo retired the next nine batters. Beaumont was left at second base in the third. In the seventh, Michel Groenhart led off with a walk and Ciro Ricardo was hit by a pitch, but Moyo then struckout the next batter. The two runners advanced on a grounder, but the game ended in style when Moyo got a called strikeout on Etiënne Meijer, after which the celebration started.

Tony Moyo (3-1) pitched all four games for Storks. In the 27 innings he threw, Moyo struckout 53 batters, walked eleven, gave up only ten basehits and allowed only two runs (one earned). Moyo was named the Most Valuable Player of the Series.
Tony Moyo afterwards: ,,After winning the title in 2004, we were the team to beat this year. It's more difficult to keep a championship than to win it for the first time. I'm very happy with this and I will return to Botswana in a few weeks with a very good feeling.''
Centerfielder Robert van der Vlist, who scored the first run in the last game: ,,That first run is important. Most times the team that scores first, wins. The fact that we scored this run in a tactical way, we also gave EHS a little bit of softball-lesson.''
Head Coach Fred Bergenhenegouwen: ,,I never doubted for a moment that we would win the championship here today''.
Coach/player Peter Noordermeer: ,,A title like this is fantastic. But more important, is again is a ticket to participate in the European Cup, so a new challenge for next year''.
Line Scores & Box Scores Games Three & Four Holland Series
(October 8)

Games One & Two. (October 1)

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